What type of bait for Trout Lakes

  • Buzz
    Minneapolis MN
    Posts: 1840
    #2314267

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

    FinnyDinDin
    Posts: 1027
    #2314270

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

    walleyesforme
    Inactive
    Posts: 589
    #2314271

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

    B-man
    Posts: 6615
    #2314274

    What kind of trout? How big?

    FinnyDinDin
    Posts: 1027
    #2314276

    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.

    Buzz
    Minneapolis MN
    Posts: 1840
    #2314285

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

    B-man
    Posts: 6615
    #2314286

    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 waytogo

    Dave maze
    Isanti
    Posts: 1070
    #2314290

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

    FinnyDinDin
    Posts: 1027
    #2314291

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

    Michael Saal
    Merrill, Wi
    Posts: 665
    #2314307

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

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    dbright
    Cambridge
    Posts: 1888
    #2314352

    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.

    Gitchi Gummi
    Posts: 3401
    #2314390

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

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18967
    #2314475

    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.

    Buzz
    Minneapolis MN
    Posts: 1840
    #2314605

    Thanks all for the recommendations. Appreciate them
    . Buzz

    jwellsy
    Posts: 1693
    #2314662

    What kind of trout eat minnows and minnow heads?

    Buzz
    Minneapolis MN
    Posts: 1840
    #2316248

    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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