Summer browns

[High Point]

I'm fishing the east end of the lake and I'm having a hard time with these summer Browns. Any advice on how to catch them would be greatly appreciated. I'm running cores, slides and riggers. Speed? Lure size?

[BAZOOKAJOE]

Try between 20-40 fow off of a shoreline point.

Edited June 20, 2016 by BAZOOKAJOE

[Gator]

Run the depth where the 62F water just hits the bottom. It can be tough when the thermocline is deeper than 70'. Long leads, fluorocarbon leaders, and smaller spoons like Dreamweaver Super Slim or Savant Jakes. Speed is a bit slower than for salmon, but not laker slow. Good luck.

[ryonybony]

Another thing to do is research online papers on brown trout tagging. I dont remeber the name of it, but it was a research paper done in grad school in the late 80s where they tagged browns and logged results. Somethings i remember were 97% of the time in the summer the browns were in 57-62 degree water. They hate "disturbance", so during big storms they would be as much as 20 miles off shore, and they are much more active than we think.

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[rdebadts]

They can be very concentrated and very location specific. If you don't know any good spots, take a long troll on one direction in 20-40 fow until you find fish, then work it hard. They will be suspended, usually 15 foot down to the bottom. Small spoons work graat

[BAZOOKAJOE]

They'll take big spoons too. My hot spoon last summer was a mag chicken wing.

[bondouley]

X2

[bondouley]

Run the depth where the 62F water just hits the bottom. It can be tough when the thermocline is deeper than 70'. Long leads, fluorocarbon leaders, and smaller spoons like Dreamweaver Super Slim or Savant Jakes. Speed is a bit slower than for salmon, but not laker slow. Good luck.

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[DJ 17]

Chicken Wing is a damn good spoon on the FLX as well!

[whaler1]

They'll take big spoons too. My hot spoon last summer was a mag chicken wing.

X3. Black and silver NK mags. Big Evil Eyes.

[J.D.]

X3.... largest brown ever for me was on a Super Slim gold back chicken wing.  (16 lbs)

[whaler1]

20 lbs 11 ounces. NK Mag.

[Traveling Circus]

that's just a monster........ Hard to believe they could put on another 10 lbs......

[whaler1]

Cmon Mike. Post the pic of the one you caught with the family some years back.

[pvelyk]

That is a pig brown.

[skipper19]

That's a toad brown!...goby eater!

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