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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Trout => Topic started by: ford62783 on Jan 10, 2021, 07:42 AM
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I've had my best luck with rosie reds for both fish Whats everyone else use
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Velveeta cheese, corn, gulp worms and gulp tadpoles (hard to find) maggots and and small plastic tube jigs.
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Meal worms on the JawJacker. Live smelt on tip up or dead stick. Shiners will work if no smelt.
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I was told bight crawlers hammer trout on tip up has anyone else seen or heard this new to me
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Night crawlers work well for Rainbows. I fish them just under the ice.
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I've never tried night crawlers but I think I will this weekend
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Cured skein eggs from summer salmon work great.
Raw shrimp is another good one on rainbows.
I'll often add scent oils to the shrimp.
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crawlers have been a secret bait of mine for couple decades. can you imagine a fish coming across a favorite food item it hasn't had in couple months! one time in the late 80 early 90s, I went to a local lake. i didn't have any shiners but I still had some crawlers in the fridge from fall. so I was going to bait my flags with them till I caught tiny gills to use. never needed the gills. lol I even put a chunk on my hair jig I was using and was stroking them with that too! a resident came walking out. he must have been watching me kill the bass. he had 3 flags out in front of his shoreline. he got about 50 ft from me and asked the question. yup, what you using for bait? I said crawlers(I was young n stupid). he stopped and paused. then he said aw bullspit and turned around and walked away. lol he thought I was telling him a story. ;D all fish love crawlers period!
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Fat heads on a Tip down :icefish:
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A chunk of beaver tail flesh on a pink jig head. Works well for brookies too
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When using night crawlers is a treble hook good to use
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Mealworms and salmon eggs
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I find the nightcrawlers are a little large I like to use a nice red worm on the jaw Jacker
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Small to medium minnows in shallow near rocks for browns and over sandy bottoms for rainbows. Also if you have a bodies of water with smelt and its legal use smelt.
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All I've ever really do is soft plastics. It's either a swimbait or worm.
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When using night crawlers is a treble hook good to use
Use a small #8-#12 single hook, thread a piece of worm on like you would a soft plastic on a jig head. Cover the hook with the worm, then cut the worm leaving almost no extra. This little piece of worm is all you need.