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I’ve been wanting to try Langlois for a while now because it isn’t very developed for how close to the city it is, plus supposedly you have a chance of catching kokanee. I arrived at 6:30 and there was a short line to launch. In all there ended up being 5 boats out, which felt like about the most the lake could comfortably accommodate. My experience was an interesting mix of pros and cons.

Cons:
- The road in was deceptively bumpy. My motor took a hard jolt and screwed up my transom saver, which cost me a few minutes before I could launch.
- The launch is treacherous. It’s extremely shallow and there are logs everywhere, including one right in the launch area that everybody hit while backing in.
- The quality of the fish is terrible. The lake is teeming with 10 inch battered, diseased hatchery brats. Most of them have skin lesions and several of mine had what looked like tapeworms inside. One had a bloody stump in place of a nose, and most had tattered or missing fins. The flesh is palid and grayish. My wife refuses to eat them; I haven’t decided yet.

The pros:
- Beautiful setting, friendly people on the lake
- Caught my limit by 8am, which must be a first for me.

I trolled mini hoochies with spin blades and herring scented corn behind dodgers with 0.5oz lead, 60-80ft behind the boat. Wasn’t marking many fish at all so I knew they were at near the surface.

MoonValley

5/8/2021 6:15:02 PM

Thanks for the report. Langlois is a favorite spot for me. I was out on the lake earlier this week and there were a total of 15 boats, kayaks and pontoons. They tended to spread out pretty well, so there didn't seem to be any capacity issues. If people who are trolling move in the same direction, it's easier to accommodate more anglers.

You're spot-on about the launch. The log on the right side of the launch is definitely a hazard. I spoke to one fellow who damaged an axle on his trailer when he backed off of it. By July, a lot of the logs that are safely under water now will pose more significant hazards.

I haven't noticed any issues with the quality of the fish, but I release 100% of them on most trips without bringing them into the boat, so I'm not looking at them closely. If you troll a little deeper and work around the point in the middle of the north side of the lake, you stand a pretty good chance of finding larger "hold-over" fish from previous years' stocking. I hooked one on a fly rod this week, got in a hurry, and broke him off.

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