Great Lakes - Question about lake trout and salmon?

I'm kinda new to the trolling for lake trout and salmon does anyone use umbrella rigs for trolling I'm used to trolling for saltwater fish just wondering if I can use some of same rigs...any suggestions would be great.

I've had thoughts of adding an umbrella rig to my spread when I get bored or fish aren't biting. I have a small one that I also thought about adding off the ball of my downrigger as a teaser. Depending on whether you have downriggers or not, you can do well with either clean spoons or flashers and spoons or flashers and flies. J-Plugs usually work well later in the year. either off the ball or on lead core. I had two downriggers on my old boat, and we ran two rods (one off the ball and one stacker clip) off each rigger. I would usually run 4 spoons or two spoons and two Jplugs. Next I would run two dipsy divers with flasher and fly combos, and then I would run two lead cores with church's walleye boards to run them out away from the boat. If I got real adventurous, I would run one down the shute too. Either a 3 color lead or a flat line with j plug.
Hope this helps, good luck and tight lines.

Thanks just getting sick of the saltwater want to try something different have a few nice lakes around me with lakers and salmon also looking for advice on walleye?

I fish Lake Superior and the most common setup includes stickbaits on the surface, flies and flashers off dipseys anywhere from 15' down to 65' down, and spoons off downriggers (for some reason "bouncing" a ball on the bottom also triggers strikes).

Leadcore produces consistently.

Most of the time the salmon hit the surface lures and the mid-range dipseys, and the trout hit the downriggers.

There is a website called The Great Lakes Angler that has links to many sources for tackle.

On shield lakes in Canada, jigging white soft-body jigs produces large numbers of fish. The only problem with jigging is that you have to locate the fish first.

Good luck.

Lake michigan and the other great lakes has turned into the best salmon fishing in the world
each man can take home 5 fish and use 3 poles
The boats look more like porkupines these days check out this video on laker fishing
these grease traps look much like umbrella rigs

http://vimeo.com/5160504


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I've had thoughts of adding an umbrella rig to my spread when I get bored or fish aren't biting. I have a small one that I also thought about adding off the ball of my downrigger as a teaser. Depending on whether you have downriggers or not, you can do well with either clean spoons or flashers and spoons or flashers and flies. J-Plugs usually work well later in the year. either off the ball or on lead core. I had two downriggers on my old boat, and we ran two rods (one off the ball and one stacker clip) off each rigger. I would usually run 4 spoons or two spoons and two Jplugs. Next I would run two dipsy divers with flasher and fly combos, and then I would run two lead cores with church's walleye boards to run them out away from the boat. If I got real adventurous, I would run one down the shute too. Either a 3 color lead or a flat line with j plug.
Hope this helps, good luck and tight lines.

Great advice. I run a very similar program on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.

The stickbaits and upper water column fishing that Shamrock mentioned works great in the spring but anything past late may and you're going to have to get your baits down deeper. We had surface temps at 75 degrees last week on Lake Michigan which is way too warm for salmon & Lakers. 50-56 degrees is a good temp to start looking for either species. You can find it using a speed & temp probe or you cna look for the thermocline on your sonar.