Ice fishing trout lures
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02/18/20 01:11 PM
02/18/20 01:11 PM
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I am doing a little trout fishing and having a lot of lookers no biters. Using a wax worm tipped slender spoon, kastmaster spoon, small ripen rap, and just a plain jug tipped with waxies. The trout are cruising and seem interested but dont bite. There must be something that will catch them. Any suggestions? Stocked rainbows mostly.
WHO MADE THIS MESS ALL OVER MY FLOOR THE MUDTRACKER WAS HERE HE HE HE
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
[Re: Bruiser1]
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02/18/20 03:20 PM
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Night crawlers work here. Some swear by Berkeley power bait but I’ve never caught anything with it Bruiser but it comes in 20 fishermen catching colors, never work for me either.
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
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#6775136
02/18/20 04:39 PM
02/18/20 04:39 PM
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A good rig that has made me money in ice derby. 1/8 oz little Cleo. gold if water is murky silver if water is clear. This goes on terminal end then fourteen inches up tie in a small bbl swivel with a glow jig or glow hook about six inches from the swivel. Glow hook or jig should be size eight or ten. I use wax worms or spikes and pautskies green label salmon eggs.
Find bottom with the spoon then raise six inches or just above weeds if there’s any this is your set depth. Rip rod tip up about five feet then slack line the spoon down to the set depth and hold still or set rod in holder or on the ice. After two minutes repeat. This works by the spoon twisting the line when you rip it up and then slack line it down, the spoon will fall back off to the side a few feet then swing back to perpendicular and begin to unwind the twist in the line. This has earned me five hundred dollars spread over three derbies only ones I have ever done through the ice. Won two and got skunked on one but so did just about everyone else on that one.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
[Re: mudtracker]
#6775150
02/18/20 04:46 PM
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Smaller lures is usually the way to go. I might have caught one trout on dough bait Jake’s garlic floating but don’t remember for sure.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
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#6775159
02/18/20 04:53 PM
02/18/20 04:53 PM
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I have had good luck with canned corn. Green Giant "Nibblers" I believe is the brand that has the big kernels. I jig it and then keep raising it up and then drop it down to them. They usually hit the bait as it is falling.
I have nothing clever to put here.
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
[Re: mudtracker]
#6775238
02/18/20 05:40 PM
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I've used sonars while jigging for landlocked Atlantic salmon with reasonable success...I believe similar results would be found when fishing for rainbow trout...
~Illegitimi Non Carborundum~
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
[Re: mudtracker]
#6775367
02/18/20 07:01 PM
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Try jigging with a cast master or jigging rapala.
Don't limit your challenges Challenge your limits
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
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#6775445
02/18/20 08:12 PM
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A good rig that has made me money in ice derby. 1/8 oz little Cleo. gold if water is murky silver if water is clear. This goes on terminal end then fourteen inches up tie in a small bbl swivel with a glow jig or glow hook about six inches from the swivel. Glow hook or jig should be size eight or ten. I use wax worms or spikes and pautskies green label salmon eggs.
Find bottom with the spoon then raise six inches or just above weeds if there’s any this is your set depth. Rip rod tip up about five feet then slack line the spoon down to the set depth and hold still or set rod in holder or on the ice. After two minutes repeat. This works by the spoon twisting the line when you rip it up and then slack line it down, the spoon will fall back off to the side a few feet then swing back to perpendicular and begin to unwind the twist in the line. This has earned me five hundred dollars spread over three derbies only ones I have ever done through the ice. Won two and got skunked on one but so did just about everyone else on that one. little cleo has worked great for me for rainbows ……..silver and blue is my go too.
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
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#6775487
02/18/20 08:42 PM
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You can’t put a live smelt on a single hook ,in that State ?
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
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#6775540
02/18/20 09:18 PM
02/18/20 09:18 PM
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Shh don't talk too much about the Lil'cleo for ice fishing. It is my main lure.......jk
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Re: Ice fishing trout lures
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#6775584
02/18/20 09:44 PM
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Nope no live minnows in designated trout water. I dont really know what the reasoning is for that.
WHO MADE THIS MESS ALL OVER MY FLOOR THE MUDTRACKER WAS HERE HE HE HE
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