View Full Version : Hagg lake Saturday
steelie69
05-08-2009, 05:47 PM
Is there still enough trout around to fish Hagg on Saturday? I want to take the kids out.
lordblitzalot
05-08-2009, 10:56 PM
was there a couple days ago and did pretty good trolling
I think I saw your boat up there today Steelie.
Was a great day for us. Brought home 6, probably let as many go. We had 2 doubles today also. Kids had a blast! Here was the hot lure:
http://www.stillsports.com/lure1.jpg
Green wedding ring did good also. Didn't catch anything on red.
StarkRaft1
05-11-2009, 11:42 PM
I think I saw your boat up there today Steelie.
Was a great day for us. Brought home 6, probably let as many go. We had 2 doubles today also. Kids had a blast! Here was the hot lure:
http://www.stillsports.com/lure1.jpg
Green wedding ring did good also. Didn't catch anything on red.
how deep do you troll at Hagg?
trollin4trout
05-12-2009, 07:03 AM
Is there still enough trout around to fish Hagg on Saturday? I want to take the kids out.
There are always trout at Haag- it's stocked constantly and there's no way all the fish are caught in between stockings. IMO
Jim
trollin4trout
05-12-2009, 07:14 AM
how deep do you troll at Hagg?
As long as the surface water temp is under 60 degrees, I troll in the top 10ft. for an hour or so- if fish aren't biting there (I know there's fish- just not in the top 10ft.) then I'll start down on the downrigger 10ft at a time until I find where they're at. Or I'll take a short-cut and see where they're at on the sonar and drop right down to them.
You have to be flexible- they aren't always where they were before- they don't always hit what they hit before. I don't do the same thing for more than 10-15 minutes if the fish aren't biting- change something and often until you hit the jackpot.
Jim
how deep do you troll at Hagg?
Like Trollin said, I fished probably the top 15 feet of the water table. I marked trout on the finder down to about 20 (always fish lure above, never below the fish IMO). I ran light weight and fished way back at about 1mph water speed. When the bite slowed I would increase or decrease speed a little and the bite would come back. I did not run any flashers on 3 of the 4 rods. The one rod with flashers did not get a hit all day (my dad's pole).
I did mark a few large arches on the bottom. Never went after them though.
I caught all of my fish in the wake free zone. Spent 30 minutes on the other side of lake and didn't get anything.
As a side note, some guy in a tri-hull was on a full plane to the east side of the lake. He headed right twords the sherrif's boat. Not sure if he got ticketed but they did get inspected for a while. Go slow in the no wake zone guys.