[TIPS] Brook Trout

[th3count]

Hey guys, I have never had much luck nailing brook trout. Can anyone share some tips. Lures, Baits, Depths ETC>

Thanks guys.

[Fish-Taco]

Originally Posted by th3count

Hey guys, I have never had much luck nailing brook trout. Can anyone share some tips. Lures, Baits, Depths ETC>

Thanks guys.

Brookies are super aggressive and love stickleback minnows and anything minnow looking. In lakes/ponds they tend to find the spots with current as they are a ravine species and are naturally found in streams. Or at least that's what the majority of what I have read about them has said.

I have had a fair bit of success using a couple different methods when going after brookies on the ice. I usually set up in about 6-10 feet of water and can watch them come and investigate the show.

The first is using a williams gold/silver spoon and hanging a bait from it. I take the hook off and tie on about 6-8 inches of flouro and then put the treble back on and tip it with either minnow heads or worms or gulp trout bait. Or a combo of either whichever works to make them bite. I have a home-built hook setter that is dynamo for that setup. I call it the sniper cause it never misses. Works fantastic for pike with a quick strike/minnow setup as well. Here she is in all her glory:



The second way is jigging the small northland tackle's mimic minnow soft plastic jigs or the small cicada jigs. Bounce them off the bottom a couple times, pull up a foot or so off the bottom and wait 5-10 seconds. If something doesn't come check it out give it a rip up once or twice, let it fall back to just off the bottom and hold again. Works very well for me. I have also used the soft plastic scuds from northland as well with pretty good results. Anything small and bug/minnow looking has worked in the pas as well.

Good luck and I hope this helps

[muzzy]

Where we icefish for them jigging a very small lure out fished dead sticking a bait about 50 to one. Right now they are shallow 4-6 feet. They seem to really like nailing an active bait

Gord

[th3count]

Thanks guy's I will try some of those out.
I am getting tired of seeing fish all day just looking at wondering off. story of my life on this lake. I have no problem sighting 20+ in a day. but getting them to do more then taste and spit, then wander off seems to be my trouble.

[JareS]

Had lots of luck this early ice season sightfishing in shallow water (3-8 feet) with a small jighead and the small, one inch shiners from Cabelas. Jigging the minnow and dead sticking it both produced.

Edit- the jigging method that worked best for me was pulling it up a couple feet and letting it flutter down, thats when they'd hit.