Demoralizing failure to catch lake whitefish

In Alaska it's Cisco and Humpback's. Definitely shallower water. But in summer when lake trout get selective I've slow trolled flies and picked up whitefish as well as Lakers. Sounds like your attaching a fly above the jig has it well covered.

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For several weeks in July and August, the lake whitefish were biting like crazy on Flathead Lake, for the first time in eight or ten years.  I figured out how to catch them, and was doing pretty well.  The number of fish I was bringing home was limited more by the number of fish I was interested in cleaning and the number of fish I thought I could unload on friends than it was by the number of fish which were willing to chomp on my lure.  But on August 18, Flathead Lake was hit by a big windstorm, and the whitefish bite completely ended in Big Arm and Elmo Bay.  I tried fishing for whitefish on August 23 in Elmo Bay, didn't get a single bite, didn't talk with anybody who had caught a single whitefish, and didn't even see anything which looked like a whitefish on my fish finder until noon.  I hear the whitefish are still biting in Skidoo Bay, so I'll have to head over there and give it a try. 

Pete,
I used to catch Lakers off Bigfork bay this time of year, fishing off the beach. And the occasional whitefish. As the water cools the fish move shallower.
And the whitefish spawn in the Flathead river here. I will try to get out in the next week or so, and I can send you a fresh report.

I was thinking of heading up to Flathead Lake for some lake trout fishing this weekend, but because I'm still learning the basics about whitefish, I didn't realize that they might be available as well.  PM me if you want to hook up for some fishing.

I would like that, but let me check out the bite beforehand.
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