06-25-2012, 07:15 PM
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Early trout in resevoirr's (march-april may and june/july in higher elevations) you can use "pop gear" . AKA Beer cans, ford fenders, lake trolls etc trailed with a "wedding ring" tipped with a worm. The wieght of this gear will take you down from 5 to 15 feet depending on speed and size of gear.
If you want to go deeper, running a egg slip wieght above the swivel that connects the afore mentioned gear will work.
If you are trolling for spring Kokanee, early season the afore mentioned gear will work or a 6 or 8 inch flasher trailed by a 2 inch squid aka hoochie tipped with shoepeg corn or power bait maggots.
Rule of thumb is the leader for the hoochie should be 1.5 times the length of the flasher..yes it should be that short. Later on, May, june and july you will need wieght or lead core to get down from 15 to 30 feet.
Winter trolling for trout (or ice off/early spring)..a good ole floating rapala, broken rapala or even a diving rapala with a little wieght can be effective.
If you live in the treasure valley, Cabelas, Howards, the tackle shack, sportmans warehouse, and Turners have all the gear I am speaking of.
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Early trout in resevoirr's (march-april may and june/july in higher elevations) you can use "pop gear" . AKA Beer cans, ford fenders, lake trolls etc trailed with a "wedding ring" tipped with a worm. The wieght of this gear will take you down from 5 to 15 feet depending on speed and size of gear.
If you want to go deeper, running a egg slip wieght above the swivel that connects the afore mentioned gear will work.
If you are trolling for spring Kokanee, early season the afore mentioned gear will work or a 6 or 8 inch flasher trailed by a 2 inch squid aka hoochie tipped with shoepeg corn or power bait maggots.
Rule of thumb is the leader for the hoochie should be 1.5 times the length of the flasher..yes it should be that short. Later on, May, june and july you will need wieght or lead core to get down from 15 to 30 feet.
Winter trolling for trout (or ice off/early spring)..a good ole floating rapala, broken rapala or even a diving rapala with a little wieght can be effective.
If you live in the treasure valley, Cabelas, Howards, the tackle shack, sportmans warehouse, and Turners have all the gear I am speaking of.
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