Trout Jig Tip

[Tross108]

Anyone have any luck jigging for trout?  Feel like everytime I try all I get is SKUNKED!

[Epkomd]

What kind of trout? I can't get into jigging for brookies. I set traps for them and then go looking for Togue, browns and bows with the jig rod

[MAINETROUTWHISPERER]

Course! What kind lakers, Brook, or brown?

[codyp33]

Rapal jig raps work awesome and the new small Vmc spoons

[MAINETROUTWHISPERER]

Always gotta have some Swedish pimples and bucktail jigs for the lakers, and yes the jigging rapalas work good.

[airplanejig]

pk flutterfish catches all trout

[woodchip]

If one could find trout in shallow water and could lay on the ice with something over your head you would see trout schooling around your bait and not touching it, until you jig the bait good and they would come alive and attack it with lots of energy. That is what trout like moving targets . Try it and you will never go back to traps.

[Tross108]

I think that is my problem, always trying to jig for brookies!

[maineduckhunter]

Jig where they live!!

[BrownTroutBoy]

I jig lots of brook trout in 3-5 FOW with a red and white dare devil spoon.

[basst_]

ive done good on sweedish pimples and panfish jigs. tipped with waxies, meallies,nightcrawlers, pieces of shiner, or my secret weapon

[Sawyerjosh]

when jigging for brookies, jig shallow.  Jig 3-5 times, then let it set still for a few seconds.  repeat.  I have found brookies often fly at the jig, but miss it or don't hit it at all.  a break every few jigs sometimes gets them to hit it instead of just flashing by.  If you see them in the water and no luck, try a different jig.  I find if they are there but aren't hitting well, cut 3 holes around you and jig 3 jods at once with a different jig on each one.  just careful to pull up all 3 if you get one so you don't lose a rod down the hole

[top_water]

Often I jig for 10-15 minutes with no luck.  It seems like as soon as I start paying attention to something else I get a hit.  so the best advice I can offer is to relax and enjoy the time on the ice!

[MadFisha]

I've had good luck with the trout magnet in red.

[MAINETROUTWHISPERER]

Hot dog

[NickM]

I've been having luck jigging with Rapala snap raps in shallow water for brookies. I usually throw a salmon egg on the treble hook so that it tastes like food if they nibble. My experience with jigging is pretty limited, but what I've seen on the last several trips is that the trout will show up in groups at semi regular intervals like they are swimming a big circle. I'm not sure if they really are, but that's what it seems like.

[saltyshores]

what I've seen on the last several trips is that the trout will show up in groups at semi regular intervals like they are swimming a big circle. I'm not sure if they really are, but that's what it seems like.

I've often seen schools of brook trout swimming along the shore shortly after ice out. Even though those trout were stocked in October, they were still traveling in schools in April-May. I've also seen them in groups under the ice.