Dec
20
Ice fishing for rainbow trout?
ByI live in michigan and fish on a lake stocked with rainbows. Any tips for catching them through the ice?
depth, structure would also be usefull, also links to the products suggested. thanks for the great answers so far.
should also be nooted, the lake has clear (not murky) water.
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December 20th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
How about fly fishing or fishing with rainbow bate it help out on fishing with fly fishing it,s fun too.
December 20th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Trout LOVE bug-larvae under the ice. Hellgramite-”looking” ice-jigs with lotsa “legs” and “tails” can be deadly, ESP if you use in conjunction with meal-worms.
Crappie-minnows work well also.
The problem with trout under ice is “concentration”, and WHEN they are hungry!
And remember that “stocked” trout are usually fed trout “pellets”. In this case, a “brown, fluffy, ball-fly” soaked in trout attractant will/would be deadly.
Hope this helps? Good fishing!
December 20th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
green or pink glow-hook topped with a couple of maggots and a kernel of white corn roughly 6-12 inches off the bottom or above the weeds. i use either hollow core or rubber core sinkers about 3/4 ounce. it puts a load on your rod and it is easier to detect a hit. typically they move into shallower water in the evening until daybreak to feed then out deeper during the day. rainbows can be a little leader shy so use max 8lb test to avoid the line casting a shadow.
i live in British Columbia and most of the lakes here are stocked with rainbows and i’m out on a lake most weekends.
December 20th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Well fly fishing for them is out of the question so i suggest you worm for them with an artificial, most other this like these will work just fish them slowly
December 20th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
ok now when you go, get a huge bag of wite beens, dump them down the hole so it make the bottem wite and you can see the fish go by mite need a flash lite, pick up one of those tiny tiny lites at the fishing store looks about 1 inch long silver with a red tip, stick it in a air plane jig tale and wait till you see the fish, warning you will look silly staring in the hole with a flash lite but it works great in ponds