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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: TroutFishingBear on Dec 30, 2003, 11:33 PM
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A few years ago, I was fishing for trout at a lake called Vega Lake in colorado. they are simple to catch at this lake, and I usually catch about one hundred. Well, I had just caught a small 10 incher, i released him. I put my line back in the hole so I could go get another meal worm to tip my jig with. My line was about 8 inches below the ice. When I got back, my rod was about going in the water, and I lifted up and it was about a 14 inch trout that bit it, 8 inches below the ice. :D
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Were these trout stocked in this lake?
Due to the large majority of trout in PA being stocked, I have on occasion targeted them through the ice. I have noticed on this trips, that stocked trout (maybe all trout, I don't know) tend to cruise in the 1-3' range below the surface of the ice. I use a fish finder when I ice fish, and the number of fish that passed through this layer of the lake(s) was astounding. I look down the hole, watch for 20 minutes, and see anywhere from 3 to 4 fish cruise by in that time frame. I've never seen anything like it with any other fish species I've ice fished for.
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It is common for rainbow to cruise just below the ice.
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the trout in this lake are mostly wild, a few are stocked