cutthroat

[TroutFishingBear]

who here has caught cutthroat through the ice? I've caught some, but hope to get into more this year. I've found they are very aggressive through the ice, and generally, like rainbows, use the whole water column and are BEST fished for in 10-25 ft depths, depending on the lake a bit shallower sometimes (have actually caught them from 1 foot under the ice to the bottom in 60 fow but that is the best range of depths)... Biggest one last year was a decent one out of taylor park reservoir, 16 or 17" can't remember for sure. Caught it on a 3" white tube jig tipped w/ smelt fishing for lakers in 60 fow. quite a surprise actually lol.

[Grizzly1]

I use to ice fish for Coastal Cutthroat in SE AK.  The Coastal Cutties in SE are similar to your cutties as they are an aggressive trout and typically easy to catch most of the time, but as winter moves along the cutties would become tight lipped.  I have caught them as deep as 20' but 5'-15' was my bread-n-butter depth for cutties.  Salmon roe or single egg were the most effective bait and the Swedish pimple or small krocodile were what I'd feed-um if they had a taste for metal.  The biggest Cuttie I've iced was a little over 23" with the average of 12" or so, I think they are one of the smallest of the Cutthroat.

-Grizz