Fish Lake Ice Fishing

Fished Fish Lake Saturday 16 Jan 2021 with some friends. Very windy from 7am until 9am? Then the wind died down and it turned into a nice day to be on the ice. There where a lot of other people enjoying the Lake as well. We stared in 80-100 feet trying to find Macs with no takers so we moved into 40-50 feet. We all caught lots of fish which where all returned to the cold water. I was using jigs tipped with sucker meat. My
big fish of the day was this brown trout.

Congratulations Rob, beautiful fish. How long was it and did you get a weight?

Thanks for the report and most importantly the pic.

That is one fine looking brown.

Nice one! I’ve tried for browns through the ice, was it 40’ on the bottom? I usually try 15fow or less and so far no luck.

Nice fish and thanks for the report. I’d really like to make it up there this year.

I’ll take a wild guess of 23 inches. I don’t have any experience catching fish that big so I wonder if anyone else wants to hazard a guess. Rob, did you catch any splake?

Beautiful brown! How big are the splake? And how’s the parking situation? I’m guessing with the lack of snow it’s better than in years past.( The parking.)

How do you tell the difference in a splake and a puppy laker

Thanks for the report. I had no idea there was BT in there..

splake vs. lake trout: They can be extremely tricky in certain waters.

Tail: lake trout have a deep forked tail vs. splake with moderate forked tail
spotting: lake trout have irregular shaped spots vs. splake with round spots

In both pictures below, the lake trout is the top fish.

Very nice brown!

That’s a beautiful splake also. There are few fish I enjoy dining on as much as a splake. They are also very fun to catch!

Nice fish!