Late this fall I did alot of rainbow fishing off my neighbors dock. Just before freeze up around Nov. 1 to the 15. Every night I would go down and throw out ice cream pail full of fish food and then fish with a pickerel rig or slip bobber until dark. Every night if it was calm the rainbows would come in the shallow water and you could see them feeding. There was 100's from very small, like 1 pound and up to who knows how big. But since the ice formed and I was able to ice fish I have not seen one. Fishing from very shallow out to 60 ft. The other guys I fish with say the same. So they must have gone very deep. It is down to 200 ft. out in front of my house. Just a theory.
