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Imo, trout are nomadic. They move all over a lake looking for food. As long as you get into water 10 feet and deeper you can fish on bottom or suspended and have equal chance at getting them. More importantly you should find out what bait catches fish on the lake you are going to fish.
jig with a light to medium action rod, 15 lb winter powerpro with 15lb florocarbon leader 2 ft in length. pick 4-5 lures, mimicking the feed in the lake. silver, silver/blue, hammered half n half, white spoons, and white tube jigs are hard to beat.set up a tip-up, or dead-stick rod with a live or dead sucker minnow or smelt on it, 3 ft off bottom. drill your second hole 50 ft away, and jig in that hole while watching your still line.jig the entire water column, target suspended fish that are feeding, and use a vexilar or marcum or humminbird sonar unit.cant miss.
4# test will be fine i use 6 and add a leader of 4# flourocarbon use crappie jigs, trout magnets, ratfinks (sp?) berkely power nymphs, you can tip them with wax worms or meal worms... pinch head off to allow scent.. lighter rods are fine i use one ultra light and one medium... the ultralight is nice for when the bight is veru light... others use bobbers and such... i dont waste my time with bobbers... its easy enough to see the line move or feel them... thats just what im successful with... i dont like powerbait personally but i guess it works... i also carry spoons and hard plastics too especially early ice... ive caught rainbows in 4-20 ft of water near or in weeds beds... especially now when weed beds are dieing and insects are more vulnerable...rocky points and flats are good too... lakers i fish all water depths... others may not fish as deep but i have them shoot off the bottom from 120ft up to 40 ft to hit my 3" tube jug they are often suspended in 20-60 ft of water as well... hope that helps
Sir, I suggest you do about 24 hours worth of reading in this very forum - so much info can be found in here if you dig. It's all here, go find it - see it evolve and turn into what is now the "best practice" for trouts. Do not discount the old ways either, the trout don't know tackle changed to catch fisherman...Pay attention to the following terms:shallowsflatsdrop offsand so on...It's all here - start mining your info and apply it as best you can - fishing not catching...Good luck