 Yep Good morning guys day number five here on West Grand Lake in West Grand Lake Stream, Maine It is a brisk five degrees this morning. They dropped pretty cold last night the wind completely Switched around and died had a good night's sleep got some coffee starting to drive some coffee into me fish Two cusclines all night never got a flag had one with live bait one with dead bait But I was surprised they might be up a little shallower with that full moon starting to spawn You know, they like to move up into 30 20 even 10 foot of water on nice sandy banks during spawning seasons I'm out here in about 55. What my plan is for today. My plan is to Catch a big lake trout. So I'm gonna set four lines out here on this big sand flat There's a big sand flat out here in about 55 foot of water void of any boulders that you know If I go another hundred yards that way, there's huge huge boulders little that the fish have been going into and getting hung up It's kind of hard for them to find the bait compared to being on a sandy flat where they could see the bait from a mile away This water is crystal clear You could drop the camera down to 55 feet and see eight or ten feet pretty easy So today the plan is to try and go for a big lake trout. We're not going for numbers anymore We've hit some pretty good numbers this week in the first three and a half days there In the first four days there. We've only say how many days am I here? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Yeah In the first three and a half days we're right at 90 fish So I don't really need the numbers today, but I wouldn't mind catching something big I'm gonna jig out of the shack I think I have the shack set up in a good spot on the edge of the boulder field out in the big sand flat So I saw a pile of smelt last night when I turned the pan optics on So hopefully that'll draw some big lakers in and we'll try to jig a good one there And if we can't get one there we'll jump around do a little hole hopping But it'll be mostly with the electronics today and a couple of dead bait on bottom jack traps Come along see the show Doesn't feel very big but I got some good head shakes This is a big sucker for bait Big head shakes Not much for weight yet Big old knot headed tog What's he doing eating that giant sucker? What are you doing? All right first tog of the morning right there Not a very big one but we'll take it Yep there he is little guy Just got bigger Probably another cookie cutter He feels decent though Might be wrapped up Ah he's just close Another little guy Got him Got him way up Feels pretty decent I don't know if it's a white fish or a tog Look like a tog Yep lake trout Wow thank you Definitely definitely utilize the electronics on that one Had the Garmin pan optics going and got them up off the bottom I ended up hooking them up around 20 foot off the bottom So I'm in 55 so about 35 down Pretty good laker right there guys Fun to catch him inside the hot The wind really started ripping out there so I came back inside Let's get him back down Nice That's the Rapala Ripping Wrap 06 And you could hear it Got a lot of beads in there and makes a lot of noise And it vibrates when you give it a yank So I switched over to that Trying to get something's attention out on this flat And that joker came right in Let's do this come on Come on sucker Let's dance All right we're gonna get one here We got two coming Got him Nice Way up in the water column Love it A lot of times you just lift on these tog And they'll come up We're to our leader Oh decent Oh yeah it's a nice one Oh I had to go down the hole for him But I got him Nice one Look at that tog Over three pounds He was aggressive We're gonna get him right back down there He was stuck in the hole Trying to turn around when he popped off Grabbed him Yes Out of nowhere Wow he's big Spool and drag Woo Oh still Big one I think we got a big one here folks Decent one anyway Come out of nowhere Flat in that thing I saw him on the screen a couple different times Come on baby Keep coming up He's not doing much right now Maybe he's about to hook I don't know Oh he's about to hook Oh shoot He's about to hook and it's a good one too Wrapped him right up Yes sir Look at that Wrapped him right up in it Heath was flying through there I knew something wasn't right Otherwise it would have been a 20 pounder But that's a good one there He's probably in the five pound range Big dark fish All sorts of power Easy easy Let me turn you over Yeah Come on baby Come on Stop it All right Shake it out Shake it out Purple All right guys There she is Hard to even hold on to the thing Big dark one there Nice one there guys Good one there Let's get him back Oh here he comes That's that Golly That's a good one there Got him Nice Got him on the lift Easy It's just a little hook Got him on the trout and pout Might be a decent Oh yeah Oh yeah Nice All right Another good one All right Another good one folks Like trout Get him back down There's another one just like him down there Oh that's a good one Got him Yes Nice hit That was awesome Not an easy one to catch but Got him to go He went and ate a bunch of smelt right before he ate them Doesn't feel very big but That doesn't matter Oh yeah Not bad There he is Motherlaker Decent one They are getting fun to catch We got a white out We got a flag Still decent Big head shakes Not big for weight yet But big head shakes Another 60 foot we got him That is a pretty lake trout right there folks Let's see He's holding it Right there They're so healthy and fat in this lake Look at that thing Big fat bellies on them And fish White out Not bad Not bad You just missed one You just missed it I just threw him back Oh yeah Yeah You guys out for a ride or you fish? Like streams that way I'm just kidding No Get out of the shack If this all started I'm looking around and like Geez I'm glad I don't have to go anywhere It's white out We were fishing once on Eagle And we were heading over to Square You guys been up that way? Well the guy leading the charge It was way worse than this White out He gave us two circles around Eagle Before I told him we weren't on Square yet It was funny when the snow stopped though We were about back to camp Okay Good luck I've been there my friend Have fun Coming in hot Come on baby Come for me Not those smell Not those smell Come for me Come for me He's coming for me Come for me He's coming for me We got those smell All right that's gonna do it for day five Awesome day Pretty much accomplished everything I wanted to By jigging lake trout Catching some lake trout Didn't catch any monsters Hey that happens That's part of fishing I got one pretty good one Through the jig hole But most of the damage was done Right in here with the pan optics And it was really fun to watch these fish And how they reacted There were maybe one out of the whole group That were easy to catch That you didn't have to work for quite a while And bring up from the bottom up into a higher zone Higher zone higher zone And keep moving away from them And get them to trigger the bite Which was a lot of fun That's half the fun of jigging And half the fun of using these electronics I thought I'd do a little bit better on the traps But they didn't do too well I was using great big suckers Caught maybe two or three Had maybe six flags all day But hey that's how it goes And honestly after like two or three flags I was thinking about pulling the traps So I could just focus on jigging I bounced around a little bit Got into a little bit of fish But I never really caught anything Other than right through this hole right here Now this bottom fishing Is a great big sand flat In and amongst a ton of big boulder fields So I found this with the pan optics By scanning around Saw okay there's a nice flat bottom There were a bunch of smelt over And the smelt kind of cycled through all day At different levels in the water column And then every time they did There was always lake trout with them Maybe even a couple salmon That I wasn't able to catch Lures for today This one is a trout and pout That's a little 5-8 spoon It's a lot of weight in a little package You got a nice little treble hook on it Glows in the dark This one here a lot of times I'll tip it with like half a smelt Or a smelt tail Or even a full dead smelt And that's what I was using When I felt like I needed to finesse Those fish a little bit more I like the weight of this thing Because it gets down in a hurry But it's not too big either It gives you a little bit more Of a finesse approach This one is a 36-inch medium heavy With a loose 2000 spin and reel on it And I use pretty much 10-pound fluoro I'll go up as high as 17 fluoro And I back it all with pretty light braid Next one up that did probably most of the damage today Is the Rappler Rippin' Wrap That's the 06 It's like a green perch color I don't even think there's perch in here But to the fish They're mostly seeing the bottom side of it And they're seeing like a pearl or a white With a white belly and a little bit With a shiny hook The reason I went to this bait Is all the rattles in it It's got a ton of rattles And when you're fishing a great big flat like this And I wasn't getting activity I sent that thing down and rip it You get the vibration But shake it, you get the rattles too So I felt like I could call some fish In within that 20-25-foot circle On each side of the panoptics That I was looking at all day And then the last bait is the big boy here This is an ounce and a quarter Airplane jig It's got wings on it right there They help kind of glide it and change directions That one's chartreuse and white And usually on the trailer hook It has like a big treble hook I'll throw like a chunk of sucker on there Or a sucker tail Just to have a little bit of meat down there If they're really looking at the bait Like they were today Most of the day I was in about 55-foot of water I traveled out a little bit deeper Into like 75 And maybe I saw a shallow as 45 All in all, awesome day Got to catch a ton of lake trout Didn't get that giant but that's fishing Still had a great day Any time you get to jig them up on electronics Or jig them at all is just an awesome day And then to put up some fairly good numbers Like I did today That made it even more fun I'm gonna cook up some good dinner tonight I got some deer steak Maybe some deer burger Onions, peppers, mushrooms Basically just gonna throw it all in the fry pan Let it go and fill up my belly And have a good night to sleep tonight Because a couple of the boys are coming back out tomorrow We haven't settled on a game plan yet But I think we're actually gonna go after some more salmon Some landlock salmon And try to put up a good number of salmon tomorrow Maybe even get into a big salmon too Those are a lot of fun to catch Because they go wild when you catch them They peel off like 100 yards of line In a matter of seconds It's pretty amazing And what we might also do If we do that is also set up a jig hole To jig for them If the weather doesn't turn out a little bit better Right now we had like white out conditions It was snow But it's starting to get a little soft And might have like a rainy mix I hope we don't get too much rain There's I think a leak or two in this ceiling here That just need to be plugged But the rain creates slush Now luckily for us There isn't a ton of snow out there But slush is never fun So hopefully we don't get too much rain tonight But it's gonna be a good day tomorrow With seeing the boys again And really want to thank you guys for tuning in Really want to thank you for commenting on the video Those always help spread the video out And gets into YouTube's algorithm And anytime you hit that thumbs up button If you like the video And you hit the thumbs up button That helps other people get to see it too Thanks for tuning in guys Tune back in for day six I think we're going salmon fishing But that could change in a heartbeat We might be out chasing big toge tomorrow See you then