How To Fish Lake Trout Through The Ice

How to ice fish for lake trout.

How to fish lake trout through the ice. Then I tie a size 12 gold salmon egg hook on the end of the line. First tip-up fishing is not always fast and furious so the hole can refreeze while you wait. Because braided fishing line has no stretch its a good choice for fishing in deeper water.

Its worked for me in the past and it continues to prove that its a great way. While these powerful predators are notorious for slamming 7-inch tube baits that are. 2021-03-12 Nothing will test your patience more than ice fishing for splake the stunningly beautiful cross between male brook trout and female lakers.

I was ice fishing for lake trout one time in Thunder Bay in Lake Superior and had augured two holes in the ice about 40 to 50 feet apart. 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. When the weather is good figure out where these shallow shelves are in your winter lakes.

2016-08-29 One of the prime places to set up for lake trout especially when youre ice fishing on new lake for the very first time is off the end of a point. Simply insert a 14- to 38-ounce jig head inside the tube so that it plummets to the bottom in a corkscrew-like pattern. If so this is the video for you.

2013-01-14 Tube jigs are phenomenal ice fishing lures for lake trout in large part because of the downward spiraling twisting motion you impart to them when you let them free fall on controlled slack. I cover tips and tactics for catching giant mackinaw in the shallows and then do it again la. 2018-08-08 As a general guide youll be looking to target trout somewhere between 4 and 10 feet of water under the ice again it will depend on the size and temperature of the lake that you are fishing on.

2021-01-15 Case in point. Rather they have a split personality and behave erratically as individuals even in the same lake on the same day. Less active trout drop deeper usually in the 20- to 30-foot flats or suspend over even deeper water.