Ice Fishing Brook Trout

[brandonkop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcP9M7f-Y3c


Ice fishing for eastern brook trout can be a lot of fun especially during the early ice season. First ice is a great time to be out fishing as long as you are careful when heading out. Once your local brook trout pond freezes over you can use the tips in this video to locate brook trout and convince them to bite even on the slow days. In this video I was using a Marcum VX - 1 Pro and a silver and red slender spoon 1/8 oz tipped with a small piece of cocktail shrimp. These brook trout are stocked as All Female Triploids so they do not display normal spawning behavior and therefore fishing varies a bit for these fish early ice from the usual diploid spawning brook trout. These lakes are often heavily stocked so don't feel bad if you'd like to take something home to eat that is the reason these fish are put in the lakes. Best of luck to you on the ice this season!

Can't wait 6 days and counting till I have two weeks off to ice fish... heading to Alberta, the homeland! See you on the ice.

[rlown]

Nice report as usual, Brandonkop!

I take it you know where the drop-off is by experience with the lake when it's not iced over, or is it from drilling holes every year that you learn the lake?

[brandonkop]

Nice report as usual, Brandonkop!

I take it you know where the drop-off is by experience with the lake when it's not iced over, or is it from drilling holes every year that you learn the lake?

I acutally look at lake maps if they are available or google earth. I can see where the drop offs are that way. Then I just drill a line of holes and take my sonar from hole to hole to find the depth contour I like. It takes time but worth it to get set up in the right spot then the fish will swim past your hole more often.