High Pressure Weather System Ice Fishing Stocked Rainbow and Brook Trout Plus Underwater Video
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- How to be successful Ice Fishing Catching Stocked Rainbow Trout and Brook Trout even when the weather changes to a high pressure system causing fish to stop biting and changing behavior.
DAY BREAK ICE FISHING!
How often do you miss the bite window without knowing?
Chances are, if you're an ice fisherman who shows up late, leaves early, and often skunked.... this message is for you!!!
Thursday evening, a snow storm blew through the interior of BC. The bite was ON, and fish were coming through steady even into the dark. If you want to see check out the video of that evening at this link: • ICE FISHING Brook Trou... "ICE FISHING Brook Trout Night Fishing Snow Storm"
14 hours later, the storm was gone, the sky was clear and blue, the temps had dropped to -8C, and the breeze was minimal at best.
These conditions tell me that a storm front had left, followed by a high pressure system. By far, my least favorite weather pattern to fish as it just seems to kill the bite. It's beautiful to be outside and fishing, but if you want some action, it isn't very conducive to luck.
Despite the weather, I learned something. I showed up to the lake in the dim light an hour before sunrise. As I unpacked the Jeep, the light really increased.
I got out to a spot and popped a few holes. Right away, I was marking fish and catching some small brook trout.
I moved a little deeper and hooked 4 rainbows and landed this beauty fat bow around 19 inches long.
Then it just died! Deadsville. The sky became brighter, so I moved to the shady shoreline and hooked a few more brookies and saw too large fish.
Then they were gone. By 9 a.m., it was pretty much a no fish zone.
I moved into 10 to 15 feet of water when I saw 3 or 4 more disinterested fish swim by, but that was it.
Sunrise was 7:40 am... so it was a short window of maybe 2 hours. It's super easy to miss and be left thinking it's just poor fishing.
Seems to me that during these undesirable weather conditions for fishing, they may still bite, but the window of opportunity becomes even more narrow.
So hit the lake early, set up, and get lucky! Otherwise, it might be a long, slow, mid day of fishing if you sleep in this winter.
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I then moved to the second lake for the afternoon. It was about 2 pm when I drilled my holes and dropped down. Right away there was a flurry of action as a few active brook trout were right below my hole. I hooked one and lost it. Then hooked a nice 16 inch brook trout. After that the bite and fish just disappeared. I stayed into the evening without any rekindling of an evening bite.
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Great video! Trout are always fun to catch, some beautiful colours on those you caught.
Thanks! They are quite fun to target. Some of the best looking fish as well.
First tracks and musical ice. Gotta love it.
Yeah pretty nice getting out like that.
Awesome as usual, many thanks.
I tired your Pautzke's trick with shrimp for trout, no avail. I used raw shrimp and BAM! Trout galore. We are finally getting ice (3-5 weeks behind) here so in a few days, perhaps a week, we will be able to safely cut holes and fish. Again, many thanks for taking us along!
Yeah sometimes they just want the white salted shrimp. Other days the pink pautzke died stuff works amazing. Funny how it goes that way. Good luck with your ice formation!
Watching your trout videos really have me inspired to fish the foothill/mountain trout inhabited bodies of water this season. I suppose the gators can wait till march, thanks for the videos doc.
Yeah give it a try. Trout are fun. They have such great personality. And much more aggressive than pike usually are in the winter.
A really good video! Great footage throughout! Those colors on the fish are so vivid.
Thanks for watching.... the bright sunny days really do make the video quality better and no wind is great for the sound.
Love the colors on those brookies
Yeah they are pretty cool. It's neat how they're all a little different depending on the lake. Even though they all originate out of the same genetic pool.
another beauty of a video
Thanks
Great Video Brandon!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Some really nice footballs in there, but it's always been a super temper-mental lake so I don't go there as much. Try the bay to the right of the launch, find the 4-6 ft deep butter zone there and it almost always produces
Yeah temperamental for sure! I've usually fish that location you mention and have videos from that location as well. I wanted to try something different since no snow and easy to walk. Some guys came and fished that bay but they didn't catch anything.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures The nice thing about that area is if the fishing is slow, you have a bunch of other lakes to choose from. I'm heading up that way this weekend to fish one of the lakes further in that only have Brookies in it... if I can get my truck in there that is
@@84thSAS Best of luck. Hope they don't have too much snow and then maybe you will make it in there. Supposed to be frigidly cold. Dress warm and stay safe going off the beaten path in the extreme weather.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures Thanks! I'll be up there Sunday when it's supposed to be -12 instead of -26
Really enjoyed that! Are you planning any kokanee ice fishing trips this year?
If the ice ever freezes I'll probably go out kokanee fishing.
that lake horseshoe?
Do you run a weight when you’re fishing slender spoons?
I don't use weights on anything ice fishing.
What are some good lakes to ice fish around bc?
Which part of bc, it's a massive province
check out www.gofishbc.com and they have maps there to help you select lakes to try to fish which are stocked by the freshwater society of BC. Not all lakes are open to ice fishing though and some have special regulations. So make sure to cross reference. Hard to go wrong so many lakes.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures cheers I appreciate the suggestion. If you care to I would appreciate any personal suggestions you have it doesn't have to be your secret lake but maybe your 2nd or 3rd lake lol.
@@RustyShakleford1 I fish a lot of lakes. They are all easily searchable on that website. Just depends where you are located and what you want to target. Tunkwa lake has a resort and lots of rainbows that can get to big size.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures cheers
What lake is this ?
There were a few different lakes in this video. Only the one I drove by was named in the video.
Are you wearing a wader?
Wader? What do you mean by that? You mean like waders that people use for river fishing? I am wearing Arctic Sport Muck boots and just some rapala bibb ice pants in the first section. Just pants in the second. No waders. If that's what you mean. I don't wear waders ice fishing and I wouldn't wear waders.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures thanks doc.
Yea i thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to wear waders on top of some warm underlayment to stay safe on ice. I am just a bit more conservative i guess. Anyway , thanks for the video.
@mr.b5583 no problem, I'd be scared to have waders on and go through the ice at the same time. If they filled up with water would be hard to get out.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures oh you are right! Didn’t think about that!
@@mr.b5583 Yeah stick with ice bibbs or a floating suit for safety!