How To Catch Rainbow Trout Ice Fishing

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How to catch rainbow trout ice fishing. On cloudy days the fish. 2014-01-04 Use light line thin wire hooks or 1125- to 180-ounce jigs and a small lead shot 18 inches or so above the bait. At the tail end of the feed start working your way out towards deeper water.

Try avoiding drilling holes throughout the day as it can scare off the fish. If you are fishing for rainbow trout or brown trout high line capacity isnt as important. In the Great Lakes and in.

Fishing for rainbow with a good plug can also be effective. While there are exceptions to every rule rainbow trout are typically most active in the gray light hours before dawn until 9 am. All you need is to attach your jig or lure to your fishing rod if you use one and drop it in.

If youre trolling the basic recommendation for trout is at about 25 to 35 miles per hour. These submarine rainbows below ice are absolute pigs and have a healthy diet of scuds or shrim. Try a plug between 2 to 4 inches long.

Trout will tend to suspend in depths that run parallel to the shallow ledge depth. LEADER When learning how to catch lake trout ice fishing you can use 10 to 15-pound braided line and 6 to 8-pound fluorocarbon leader. I show you how I catch these.

Regardless of where you choose to fish on the lake it is a good idea to get to the lake early and drill all your holes. But in this case the shallow water is the first few feet of water below the ice in water that is overall much deeper. 2013-01-24 The trout gather in these enclosed confines and you can often catch them by jigging in a variety of depthsfrom as little as five feet to as much as 15 feet below the surface.