Fort Peck Lake Trout

Top baits were the VMC Underspin Jigs tipped with a Storm Largo Shad as well as various white tubes.

Fort peck lake trout. They Encounter an insane bite with many doubles. Another reason why Lake Fort Peck is one of the premier ice fishing locations is just how isolated it is. Fort Peck Reservoir holds the world record for saugeye at 1566 pounds the co-world record for sauger at 875 pounds the old state record for walleye at 1663 pounds and current smallmouth bass record at 751 pounds.

Few fisheries in North America offer the opportunities through the ice that Fort Peck does. With over 1500 miles of shoreline and spanning over 245000 acres the lake is the fifth largest artificial lake in the country and the largest lake in Montana by surface area. Both lake trout and chinook salmon have been major beneficiaries of the introduction of cisco into Fort Peck in the mid-1980s.

Bull Trout 37. Also since lake trout are long-lived and slow growing we have yet to see how big they. Cant believe I went over two years with out fishing these crazy fish.

Lake trout have been eating well since cisco was introduced. Spring finds Matt chasing big lake trout on Fort Peck. This is Fishing at its best Folks.

Lower Two Medicine Lake John R. Brook Trout 906 lbs. Fort Peck currently has 45 fish species in it but the main target species are Walleye Small Mouth Bass Crappie Northern Pike Chinook Salmon Lake Trout Yellow Perch Paddlefish and Channel Catfish to name a few.

Fort Peck open water lake trout was filmed second week of June 2020. Most days you wont see another angler as your guides spread clients across sections of the lake. And oh so much more.