gfy_paddler wrote on Jul 10^th, 2013 at 3:46pm:

Thanks for the thoughts MT.  BTW, I'm heading up in one month and I plan to give the Lake Trout a good look at the micro dawg.  Just drop it down to them and jig it back up!

I am perhaps the last guy to point this out considering the several nice fish I gave a death sentence to last year on Basswood........but

If you jig the lakers out of deep water the potential for them expriring would be rather high it seems to me. On the other hand, last august I had a couple of good days catching them in a schedulded bay on Basswood and all but the big momma swam away just fine. Of course I wasn't dragging them up  via jigging from deep water either but they were hitting a crank bait in some 28ft. Anyway, if they are just sinking out of sight after the release i would hope we are on the same page.