What type of bait for Trout Lakes

No Minnows allowed. What to try? Waxe’s ???

Frozen minnows. Freeze em night before so they are fresh.

We’ve always had really good luck with the ultra light rippin raps on the mine pits around home.

What kind of trout? How big?

B-man wrote:

What kind of trout? How big?

The answer is still frozen minnows. Just depends on how big of minnows.

Dead work fine too but those bastages don’t die even when you put them in a plastic bag in the bed of your truck and drive two hours in 0 degrees. That’s when I started freezing them the night before. I got all the heads chopped off by the time the warden walked up to the tent. Just in the nick of time.

If you gotta downsize to waxies you may as well break in to the hatchery and fish the stockers out the tanks.

The rules just say no minnows. Im trying to get clarification. Rainbows
It’s the Chsmplin Frostbite 500 on nect Saturday 2/8

Buzz wrote:

The rules just say no minnows. Im trying to get clarification. Rainbows
It’s the Chsmplin Frostbite 500 on nect Saturday 2/8

Waxies on a small spoon

Waxie on a small spoon. Or a plain hook and trout egg.

Fresh stockers! Something that replicates the fish pebbles they feed them would be good. Or better yet get some pebbles.

Wrigglers on a tip down. Single hook through the middle hard section.

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I usually trout fish a few times a winter. Some days they really like a horizontal jig vs spoon. I usually start with a small crappie/bluegill size spoon with a few waxies and change it up if they don’t commit.

hammered gold Swedish pimple tipped with wax worm or frozen minnow head

For small planter ponds like the ones I fished this morning we always use the same exact thing we use for bluegills. Small lures (tear drops, flies, etc) with waxies.

Thanks all for the recommendations. Appreciate them
. Buzz

What kind of trout eat minnows and minnow heads?

Update on the Champlin Frostbite 500 yesterday. Sold out-Only 20 trout caught. Many small Crappies, heard someone caught a Pike.

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