Monster Lake Michigan Brown Trout!

Hey everyone!

This past Friday, I teamed up with one of my regular fishing partners and friends, Teddy Wozny with Lucid Fishing. We met up with another friend of ours, Kal, to go chase some monster brown trout on Lake Michigan. The weather for the day was in the low 20's, occasional snow, and a strong south wind that was gusting over 20mph. All that added up to a "wind chill" or "real feel" of about thirteen degrees (That's Fahrenheit for all of my awesome non-US friends) In other words, it was perfect weather to go kayak fishing!

When we got to the launch, there wasn't another person or car there until one boater showed up and looked at us as if we had three eyeballs. There was ice by the docks but most of the harbor was ice free. We quickly got the kayaks rigged up, put on our cold weather kayak gear, and by about 9:00am, we pushed off.

My personal mission on Friday was to test the Biovex crankbaits on brown trout. When I first started talking with the folks from Biovex, I was easily convinced that they worked great for bass. As much as I like catching bass, I wanted to prove that they would be killer on Lake Michigan for big brown trout and salmon as well. Ultimately, I wanted to put them on the map for Great Lakes anglers! This was my first chance to put that theory to test. I was also hoping to do some jigging with some of the new NXT LVL baits from the StankX Bait Co., but the wind, temperatures, and waves just didn't really allow that to happen.

We were off the water by 130 and in that time, I went 6 for 11! Also got my personal best kayak brown trout that came in over 20lbs!!

Good video; I enjoyed it, and nice fish.

Ray

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Harold Ray Emerson
419 Lake Air Drive
Waco, Texas 78710

Phone: 254-772-3520

Thanks, Ray!