Trolling for Rainbows

I did quite a bit of trollig for trout on Lake Deifenbaker in Sask a few years ago. A couple of my favourite lures were Len Thompson yellow with red Fie of Diamonds , Mepps Scylops in various colours and the medium sized red and white Canadian Wiggler.For a couple of years we could pretty well count on 4 or 5 fish each in a 3 hour stretch. Catches were 3 to 8 lbs with occassional ones in the low teens.

The reason for such great fishing was a large fish farming operation which lost several hundred thousand fish of mixed size when spring ice break up ripped their pens open. Rumours have it there was a smaller but still significant loss this past fall. This lake is large at 760 Km of shoreline with a surface area of 430 sg. Km. and depth of 66m or over 200 feet in places. After the last big escape trout had scattered to all parts of the lake but natural reproduction is absent or very minimal .