what lakes are you guys fishing in the north? would love one more lake trout trip.
ww, i don't think i saw any reports from your dugout this winter. how are your rainbows doin?
Hummm, there's a reason I don't have any trout reports ran7ger.
I ran into some major disaster with them.
In the winter of 2013 - 2014 the fish were doing fine and they were fat and healthy and some were now in the 21" range.
I ice fished for them a few days in Dec and beginning of Feb but during the middle of Feb - March I tried the other lakes and sometime around then the muskrat or muskrats that were living in the dugout chewed through my aerator hose, cutting it right in half. With the thick ice we had that year, and now lack of oxygen
ALL of the 115 rainbows I still had in there died.
It was a major blow this spring come break up to find the hose cut in half and dead fish piled up along the shore and floating here and there in the water.
I tried fishing a couple times for an hour or so this spring but not bites and no rising trout that was so common before.
My last attempt was just putting down the underwater camera and adding their pellets to see if anything showed up but no such luck, they are indeed all gone.
I will have to now start from scratch again. First order more fish, if they are not all spoken for, and when the ice comes off make repair the hose and try to it muskrat & beaver chew proof.
WW
