Minnesota Lake Trout Season

Lake trout are found in Lake Superior and in many deep cold clean northern lakes.

Minnesota lake trout season. Drilling a hole in the ice over sharp breaks or humps and tossing down a jig spoon or plain hook tipped with meat is about as complicated as lake trout fishing is at its most basic. 1 hour ago Fishing seasons open for walleye bass trout in lakes and northern pike on Saturday May 15 with this years date taking the prize for the latest possible opener under Minnesota statute. Lake Superior and tributaries.

010121 - 04. 28 for Minnesotas inland lakes. 2021-01-02 Early Inland Trout Season for SE Minnesota Catch and Release Only.

2010-09-30 Anglers who have the knowledge and the time know lake trout can be caught through the ice throughout the winter well into March when the season closes. Minnesota waters that border Canada. In most instances when you go ice fishing at 630 am.

Dodge Goodhue Fillmore Houston Mower Olmsted Wabasha Winona. Northeast Minnesota home to Lake Superior and pristine lakes near the Canadian border is the states primary destination for lake trout fishing. Minnesota waters that border North Dakota.

Minnesota inland trout stream season is closed in the Fall outside of a few state parks like Whitewater State Park and city limits like Lanesboro. Minnesota is one of only a few states with naturally reproducing lake trout populations. Brook trout and splake fishing also opens on Lake Superior and its tributary streams that have no posted boundaries.

The best time to catch them is in May or during the winter season. Anglers will be able for the first time to fish for trout in the winter on two dozen north-central Minnesota lakes many of them within the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area. High season is April to June and September to October.