Cold Lake May Long

[Willowtrail]

A great weekend it was. We had a total of 7 guys and gals out in our group at various times throughout the weekend. 3 boats and lots of fun. EZM came by our campsite for a bit to talk fishin by the fire for a bit and lots of fish were caught. I would guess about 100 lakers and 1 gator. 3 lakers were over 75cm.
I landed 2 of them, both jigging and buddy got his jigging as well.

Lots of these fish were caught trolling. My Scotty Downriggers worked perfect, all my scotty rod holders were great as usual and no issues with any of the products.

My new Lowrance HDS Carbons were out of this world. They worked great and the 3D was a really cool new feature which will take a bit of work to tweak and get using more.

When ever I was trolling I was using new to me lures. I was testing out some new Northern King Lures. They were acquired by Albertas own Len Thompson Lures over the winter and they have been shipped out their first shipment to distributors. They worked awesome, a light 4 1/2" trolling spoon that has a wobble that's amazing. Every color combo I used was a hit. My favorite is the Homeland Security Glow.

Here are some of the highlights from the weekend. Completely ice free by Sunday night.

First laker of the season for our group


Northern King Lures Homeland Security Glow






Friday afternoon ice


My Alumacraft




Mother in laws first ever Lake Trout


Captain Jeffrey


Laker wanted a picture of its good side


One of my many Trout landed on my new Northern King Lures


10lb Lake Trout


13lbs 7oz Laker. Released to be caught another day


Ripping out to our morning spot


Monday morning beauty

[pikeman06]

Jeez that's post card material guys thanks for sharing some beautiful pictures. See what it looks like when these winds hit 90 km like they say. Used to drive to the windward shore of cold when winds were crazy it was awesome for alberta., she really gets rolling.

[Kurt505]

What an awesome May long weekend, both weather wise and from the looks of things fishing wise.

I haven't even looked at my boat yet this spring

[McLeod]

Thanks for sharing ! Awesome

[Willowtrail]

Not going up this weekend but may sneak up for a day next week to fish with a buddy and show him how to run his new gear. Have a few buddies going up tonight and tomorrow. Wish I was going up again. Good luck out there fellows.

[EZM]

Thanks for having us over to the camp for a beer boys. It was fun.

Those Northern King spoons seem like something to give a try ...... heck ...... everyone needs more lures right?

They sure seemed to be working much better than what we were dragging through the water.

Was a beautiful weekend - I don't think I ever saw the lake quite that still in all the years we have been going up .... it was surreal.

[Sumara]

Looks like a mighty fine May long weekend!

[wildwoods]

Wow. Mind blowing. Thanks so much for posting

[-JR-]

Some of of those pictures where the water is like GLASS , makes me want to go there right now.

[chain2]

Omg beautiful pics all. Thanks for posting

[sportman]

Originally Posted by -JR-

Some of of those pictures where the water is like GLASS , makes me want to go there right now.

well lets get going

[sns2]

Great thread. Thank you.

[dugh]

We were at Cold lake this past weekend. My wife, as usual, caught the biggest fish almost right away, a 10.5 pounder that was barely legal 78cm. We caught 11 Saturday on calm water and 2 Sunday morning in rougher water. Most were about 60-64cm. Beautiful healthy fish that are fun to catch. Ironically, I broke the transducer off the back of the boat and the spare sonar I carry would not register depth yet we had our best trip there ever. Finally, finally, finally I caught more fish than my wife but she got the first and 2 biggest. It was very hot in the sun, we were in various stages of undress so my pictures are x-rated and cannot be posted, my wife might have some that I can post.

[Willowtrail]

I'm headed back in the morning for 2 days.

More pics to come

[Kurt505]

Good luck my friend

Originally Posted by dugh

We were at Cold lake this past weekend. My wife, as usual, caught the biggest fish almost right away, a 10.5 pounder that was barely legal 78cm. We caught 11 Saturday on calm water and 2 Sunday morning in rougher water. Most were about 60-64cm. Beautiful healthy fish that are fun to catch. Ironically, I broke the transducer off the back of the boat and the spare sonar I carry would not register depth yet we had our best trip there ever. Finally, finally, finally I caught more fish than my wife but she got the first and 2 biggest. It was very hot in the sun, we were in various stages of undress so my pictures are x-rated and cannot be posted, my wife might have some that I can post.

I was out there on the weekend, what does your boat look like?

[dugh]

Kurt, we have a blue Crestliner and I fly a Canadian flag. We were in front of the cabins mostly. What were you in? We haven't fished there much but have had a couple of trips with no fish so this trip was fantastic.

[SNAPFisher]

That is one mirror like surface. Nice fish all!