If you're asking about Nobles Bay, both, but way, way more often in the narrows. To be fair, the narrows is a navigation channel and only a few hundred feet wide, even though they may stay well away, the average boat zipping through there is around 20' or more. Often you'll find yourself getting pounded by their wakes long after they've passed.rex.stpierre wrote:I have a very short temper for disrespectful/oblivious/ignorant boaters on a waterway...Full speed in the actual bay or through the narrows?
I wouldn't even attempt fishing for lake trout in the narrows in my 18' deep-v unless it was very early in the morning or just before dark, the rest of the day its just so busy that you'll spend all your time fighting wakes. Like I said, its a navigation channel. For lake trout I'd stick south west of the narrows in the area a little north east of the boat launch and south west from Murphy's Point. I've caught a few lakers around there.
Nobles bay is pretty sheltered, the waters very calm for the most part, but every now and then you'll get a guy ripping back and forth pulling a bunch of kids on tubes, though that activity tends to be along the northern side of the bay for the most part. If you stick to the bays west of Murphy's Point, along the southern contours you'll be sheltered from the wakes caused by the vast majority of boat traffic. There I've caught lots of bass (mainly smallmouth and rock bass, the odd largemouth), some pike, and there are probably as many pumpkinseed and bluegill under the water as there are flies above it. I've also caught the odd perch. The points of the bays and the deeper water going from point to point are where I tend to catch the bigger smallies.