Thread: Lake istapoga

Don't have a clue here, but good luck and catch a bunch

Thanks for well wishes on the trip. I did change my mind about istapoga today. Looked like rain over toward the lake so I went to red beach instead. I had been getting a little discouraged with that lake but if it got windy or rainy elsewhere I wouldn't have felt safe in my little boat. As it turned out ..GREAT choice!! Only one other boat in the water when I got there so Had my pick of good spots. Set up to drift minnows in 16 ft water and used my new 16 ft pole plus three other 10 footers. I had two dinks within . minutes! Before finishing out that line of drifting, I had four keepers. Set up again to drift across and by end of day at 11 am had caught a total of twelve and had four keepers. The LAST fish was a 14 inch beaut and she was VERY full of roe....some spawning is about to happen here! I had only had about 20 minnows left out of a quarter pound . I basically had just wanted to fish up what I had left. It was just starting to fall so I called it a day on an upnote!..I actually found six minnows that had been hiding with the bigger fish when I starting cleaning the catch..little buggers! Sooo... fun day...never went more than 20 minutes without setting a hook and was best day on this lake to date..and biggest fish of the lot to date. And I NEVER have my camera when I actually catch something!