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BIG KAHUNA: Fishing a trophy trout lake after ice off?
There is a lake near me that is managed for trophy rainbows. Artificial lures only, single barbless hooks only, and a slot limit of (I think) 22 inches. Big trout in this lake. I want to float tube it just after ice off in a couple months. I have very little experience with this kind of fishing. I fish on lakes for panfish on fly gear in the summer, but the rest of the year I'm more of a stream guy. Haven't fished much for deep-feeding rainbows in a lake like this. Any advice about tackle, fly choice, tactics, would be appreciated. Do I have to use sinking line? Sink-tip leader? Help me catch my trophy.
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- enufofthisshitLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
dress warm. go out there while there is still some ice.
fish along the edges of the ice or any inlets.
sinking tip, maybe just a long sinking leader. don't think you will need to go too deep. a big mouthful of a streamer fly. tie yourself up one resembling a rainbow trout. OH!! BK... Big Kahuna...or use a muddler.
mouthful. big. almost forgot back there. size 4 or even 2. just for the heck of it, tie one up about 6 to 8 inches long, patterned after a rainbow or a brown. l bet it'll work.
l used to fish cherry creek reservoir in denver years ago for trout at ice out. fished thin fins right along the edges. bonus size trout. well, for me they were. 16, 18 inches. l've always been more into warmwater game but l still like to take on a trout now and then.
float tube is THE way to go.
many lakes here in cali, in the sierras are still icebound when the season opens. they are heavily float tubed from first ice out until the season closes.
that early in the season, the fish are going to be all through the water column.you will do as well flat-lining as you would with the full sinking get-up 40 feet deep.
Not Necessary! keep it easy on yourself.
will you be having hatches of any sort to match that early in the season? much nymph activity in the grass along the edges of the lake? should be a lot of action there. probably no hoppers or other terrestrials yet. l'm betting on streamers and nymphs, shallow. big streamers. those are big trout. in a lake, they are more likely going to be meat eaters. wanna match the hatch? 8 inch trout!
