Trout fishing with electronics

[tbone1088]

Hi boys,
Im on a mission this week to catch a lake trout at the lake we are camping at, and am looking for good tips and advice. The tactics I will be using are jigging with a fishfinder and 3 way rigging on the bottom, mostly jigging. I have a lowrance x-67 and have seen shows where people use the fishfinder to watch the jig fall down and they can see the fish hit it, like in ice fishing. Does anyone have good tips for this technique? Sensitivity will be all the way up, im hoping it will read 2 lines if not thats cool one will be enough. Also things like boat positioning and where to drop the lines so the transducer picks them up. I will be fishing about 50 to 100 foot down, and read that white is the go to color for that depth, what about lure selection? Main forage is perch rockbass and some cisco.

[Mike586]

I posted this http://www.fish-hawk.net/viewtopic.php? ... 15#p371944 in the "Trolling for Deep Lakers" thread. It should help.

[bl8ant]

You might not have much luck (depending on the sonars beam width) having two baits picked up well unless you are jigging dangerously close to each other. Using jigs and spoons that drop quickly and straight vs, slow and spiralling will help with this. Airplane jigs, rapala ice jigs and tubes spiral no matter how heavy and you'll have a harder time staying within the cone. Some spoons flutter while others drop straight (Swedish pimples, bomber slab spoons are quick to drop). Lighter line enables baits to drop significantly quicker than heavier line. Some braids float, suffix 832 sinks-they have an even faster sinking braid now. Stay under 20lbs test.

Another tip would be to focus most of your efforts on the shallower fish you manage to find on the electronics when jigging. It's been my personal experience that fish much deeper than 70 fow aren't as aggressive as the ones in 40-70. Not always the case and there are always exceptions.

[tbone1088]

nice thanks for the tip. I was also wondering if trout bight at night time, and if so where would you find them?