lake colby, rollins pond

[travis9791]

headed up to saranac lake for the winter carnival this weekend with the family. I will be fishing lake colby and rollins pond. Just wondering if anyone has had any luck on either. this will be my third year fishing these places with still no luck at getting a trout of any kind. I have been successful on the smelt at rollins and have caught very little on colby. olake clear i would appreciate itn lso i have heard there are trout in lake clear if anyone has any info on lake clear i would appreciate it

[jigumup]

Pm sent

[Kanerock]

Fished colby, clear, and rollins 2 weeks ago. 18" salmon
At colby right under ice in front of hospital. Clear, a few
Perch. Rollins, just smelt. Rollins is a really nice place to
Fish, just would like to land something besides smelt. Gonna
Try big section of rollins next time. Good luck!

[travis9791]

thanks

[NewIce]

If you like catching a lot of smelt then try Rollins Pond. I seem to not do very well on Colby but others seem to have it figured out.

[travis9791]

Yeah i have always had luck for the smelt in front of the creeks at rollins but can't find the lake trout. Just wondering if anyone has ever had luck on the lakers through the ice at rollins.

[island witter]

according to dec website rollins has land locked salmon too . lots of people on here say lakers taste bad. ive never tried them but they say the same thing about burbots and there tasty 

[travis9791]

according to dec website rollins has land locked salmon too . lots of people on here say lakers taste bad. ive never tried them but they say the same thing about burbots and there tasty 

I agree burbots are tasty. I have never caught a lake trout to be able to say what they taste like. I just bought five new thermal tipups and rigged them for lake trout hopefully this will be my year at rollins.

[Coldfish98]

I've never fished Colby for trout, but last year, we headed up there to catch perch. The trip was more that successful. Our group caught well over 200 big perch in a day. The action was nonstop. We used mousies on jigs and Northland Buckshots. When you go, you should definitely try it for perch. 

[scott7612]

Just drove by Colby ten mins ago... Thinking about going after work tommorow.... Is it worth my time to drill holes and set my tip ups? Or should I just go jig the point for perch?