Lake outlets when the salmon smolt are trying to leave the lake headed to salt is good shallow water fishing in the spring.
We used to fish Paxson and Summit using this very method. If they are there it can be a fish on every cast, but I am sure you already knew that
We used to float down a creek that we put sockeye fry into, all the way down to the ice. Anchored the canoe off to the ice and pitched jigs. Caught a lot of lakers doing that, most of them were puking up clouds of sockeye fry. They just laid there and waited for us to put the fry into the creek.
Fishing for lakers on Crosswinds in the spring is a blast. They sit right off the edge of deep water waiting for the smolts to migrate into the shallow water. Fly fishing for them was usually the go to, and I have hooked them in water that wasn't deep enough to cover their backs.
