I also remeber when it was the first year I fished Minnewanka in May and I didn't have anything figured out about that lake yet. I wouldn't catch a laker and almost everyone else that came in, said that they landed at least one laker. I asked all of them how deep the lakers were and many of them said " try 60 fow". I try 60 Fow and not even a bite for the 5 days I fished the lake. When I was fishing in 10 Fow I saw these fish that looked like lakers sitting on the bottom of the lake and saw other people fishing that shallow spot as well I come back in late June next year and catch the lakers on 11 to 40 Fow.
Turns out I was being lied to.
Well, that's it for my rant.
The first year I fished the lake though, my fishing partner and I caught some nice sized rocky mountin whitefish that were around 3 to 4lbs.
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