01-07-2004, 06:11 AM
you may want to concider moving over to a lake for the winter. lakes are tricky enough to figure out saftey wise. rivers can be tretchous and unpredictable in the winter months. holes can ope up under the snow and ice with out notice.
if you are targeting trout, might I sugest large shiners, (minnows) set him up on a tipup and drop him down to the bottom of the lake with a sinker a foot or more up the line from your bait. when your sinker hits bottom pull it back up about the lenth of your leader + 6 to 12 inches more to keep your minnow from laying on the bottom of the lake.
I dont know how many lines you are allowed there, here where I am we are allowed two line. I use a tip up and a hand rod. except when fishing for crappie, I will use two hand rods.
if you are allowed two rods, make your second rod a semi stiff rod, not to stiff because you will want a little play in the fight. you dont want to horce the fish in and kill some thing you dont have any plans on keeping, (under sized and unwanted species) if you pull them up to fast you can kill the fish. If it is two soft of a rod it wont hold up to large fish like lake trout.
with the hand rod, tie on a swedish pimple on to about a 8-12 pound test line. cut a dead minnow in half and tip the pimple with the minnow tail. drop the top part of the dead minnow in the hole.
start by dropping your pimple all the way to the bottom of the lake and start jigging, work it of the bottom and slowly work your way up, coming up a little at a time.
this is just two of many ways to target hard water trout.
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if you are targeting trout, might I sugest large shiners, (minnows) set him up on a tipup and drop him down to the bottom of the lake with a sinker a foot or more up the line from your bait. when your sinker hits bottom pull it back up about the lenth of your leader + 6 to 12 inches more to keep your minnow from laying on the bottom of the lake.
I dont know how many lines you are allowed there, here where I am we are allowed two line. I use a tip up and a hand rod. except when fishing for crappie, I will use two hand rods.
if you are allowed two rods, make your second rod a semi stiff rod, not to stiff because you will want a little play in the fight. you dont want to horce the fish in and kill some thing you dont have any plans on keeping, (under sized and unwanted species) if you pull them up to fast you can kill the fish. If it is two soft of a rod it wont hold up to large fish like lake trout.
with the hand rod, tie on a swedish pimple on to about a 8-12 pound test line. cut a dead minnow in half and tip the pimple with the minnow tail. drop the top part of the dead minnow in the hole.
start by dropping your pimple all the way to the bottom of the lake and start jigging, work it of the bottom and slowly work your way up, coming up a little at a time.
this is just two of many ways to target hard water trout.
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