Ice fishing soon 2011-2012

The ice is starting to form on Boysen and Ocean Lake. Looks like we all may be fishing Thanksgiving weekend!!!!

Season Ends

I would like to know how your Ice-Fishing season was. This Ice fishing season i caught 4 Rainbows, 1 Cutthroaght, 2 Burbot/ling and 1 walleye these are the mentionables anyway. The rainbows averaged at about 22'', the cutthroat was 25'', the ling was 24'' and the walleye was 25'' and a little over 5 pounds.

Colors for Cutts

Cutthroat I have found like to hit on lures that are bright green or bright red. I usually catch rainbows or cutbows from my favorite spot, but when I used these colors all that I caught were pure cutthroats that were full of fight that love to get airborn durring the fight.

Good Way to Catch Brown Trout

The two most effective ways that i have caught brown trout is using Rapala and Spinners. For rapala it seems like it doesnt matter, i have caught brown trout on every color. With spinner the color that slaughters them is bronze! Blue Fox is the best bronze spinner that I have used for catching brown trout. For in rivers i always found it best when targeting browns is to cast into fast moving water where the lure is going to go right into a slow deep whole. This is where the browns are, they sit there waiting for their food to be pushed at them by the river.

Tips for Catching Ling/Burbot

Burbot or ling are active at night. So that is the time that you should try to catch them. Fish right off of the bottom because that is where they scrounge the lakebed for eggs, minnows, ect. Check your lines often at night because they will run with your line and go into holes and over and around branch that are sunk to the bottom. Then you will most likely never retrieve the fish and have to break your line.

Ice Fishing-Cutthroat Trout