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By: Augwen
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Lake 3 days in a row. I got a 4 lb the first day. A 5 lb the second day and a 6.2 lb the third day. The bigger one was a male. When you are sitting back in the boat going 2 to 3 MPH, trol...
By: Aaron
Posted: 10/13/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived an hour behind schedule (8am). Had everything rigged and ready to go when I got there. Used a Frisky Jenny Black Ant with a bit of worm on my braided line, with a 5' leader and a small split s...
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/9/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2017
Hot Spots: 3
Mike Carey and I hit the lake on a mission to catch the elusive Mackinaw. We marked them all over the lake, but couldn't get a single one to bite. We tried all sorts of lures, some with herring, but h...
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/24/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Fishing by 9, back on the road by 12. Southeast section of the lake was the most productive. Using chrome flashers and various colored Apex and wedding rings at 20' to 35' was the ticket. Managed to p...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/10/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I got to go on a much anticipated and looking forward to “Cast and Blast” adventure this weekend!
Saturday was fishing Deer Lake with Aaron and Dave Mason of Toyota, and then Sunday we got to go phea...
By: SharkFisher
Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/25/2015
Hot Spots: 2
The state launch is mostly inaccessible because of low water, so we ended up putting my pontoon boat in at Deer Lake Resort for an afternoon trolling around the perimeter. We had one downrigger set ne...
By: Augwen
Posted: 9/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Took a new neighbor at the Lake out trolling in his boat to show him around. As he had no speed indicator I opted to use Apex lures with a little bit of worm. All the fish were running at 20' and deep...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/9/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
If you want a big Lake Trout now is the time. Deer lake is open, ice free, and the Mackinaw are hungry. Pictures of a trip 04/09/2017. Pictured are a 30" and Jason's largest fish he ever caught. 36". ...
By: rpolensky
Posted: 7/11/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Took wife and son out. Left boat launch by 7:30 am back @ 12:30 with 12 rainbows. A couple were 18inch plus. Had a great time until boat traffic got too busy.
By: 509Aaron77
Posted: 6/6/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I missed one early, ended up catching a plant and my brother caught the Laker of his life! 39" inch 23 pounds! Yes it's at the taxidermist! A Monster Fish! :-)
By: 509Aaron77
Posted: 6/6/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2018
Hot Spots: 0
An off year for personal reasons made me bring up my little fiberglass boat. I borrowed my brother's electric motor and off we went trolling out of Cedar Bay around the Mack point bend. I started drag...
By: RRanger66/67
Posted: 9/26/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Actually fished from about 9:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M Trolled a variety of spinners and plugs around the perimeter of the lake and across the middle.....absolutely NADA...no fish on surface, no bugs etc.....
By: Travisg1017
Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at around 830 Saturday and Sunday. They were biting uptill around 1230. Caught 5 Saturday and 8 Sunday. I was trolling with a wedding ring and worm, all nice fish averaged about 16 i...
By: psmith8210
Posted: 4/30/2015
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to deer lake today to try my hand at mack fishing, I have tried a few times before with no success... but not today, brought in a nice 32 inch 10lb mack.! A great time even though we fought the ...
By: duckslayer0392
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 6:00a.m. in search of some macks. Started trolling around the ledges off the sandbar on the west end of the lake, saw quite a few on the depth finder all day in about 12 ft of w...
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took my boys to the lake to catch some trout. No such luck. Trolled the south bays and south end, then the north bay and finally all along the north and west shore. Didn't see anything on the sonar, n...
By: Aaron
Posted: 10/20/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Another horribly long and frustrating day at Deer lake. A lot of hookups, zero fish in the boat. Targeted Rainbows in the 20'-40' depths using a size 1.5 Apex Lure in Rainbow. It took hours to get 4 o...
By: Double Treble
Posted: 10/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/28/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Last Deer Lake fishing of the year! I wasn’t sure I was going to make it out on the water on the last weekend of the year, but around 10 am it was looking pretty calm and dry out on the water and I d...
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water about 7:30am. Trolled the Southwest bays at about 1.7-2 mph using a black/green wedding ring with a yellow spinner and a chunk of worm. Set the downriggers to about 33'. It took about...
By: Double Treble
Posted: 9/27/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2012
Hot Spots: 1
My father-in-law and I headed out late morning to try our luck trolling for rainbow. We found them schooled up on the east bank near the entrance to the narrows. We had our limit on the stringer in ...
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/29/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I finally hit the jackpot on Deer! I stopped into White Elephant yesterday and picked up some Apex lures (size 1.5). One in Chrome with a reflector on it and the other in a rainbow color. They worked ...
By: Aaron
Posted: 10/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I think I'm finally beginning to understand this lake.
Erin and I arrived around 7am. It was cold!! Frost on the windshield and fog inside the boat. Lucky for us I picked up a 4000/9000 btu propan...
By: Augwen
Posted: 4/3/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
We started out at 8:00 am trolling leaded line and Apex lures looking for trout. Went 2 hours without a bite. Found an area with lots of fish between 35' and 60' and figured they were Macks. So we let...
By: Aaron
Posted: 4/3/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
After reading recent reports about the lake being open and free of ice I just had to get up there and give it a try. My friend Andrew, and my son and I trolled recently reported spots looking for the ...
By: nwsooner11
Posted: 5/9/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/9/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Deer Lake to try out the downrigger and see if the Macs were biting. Trolled for about 2 hours with nothing. So gave up and caught and released about 20, 8 inch rainbows. Anyone got any tip...
