Knowing how specific fish species act can help you catch brook trout like this one. (Steve Hickoff photo)
By Steve Hickoff, Yamaha Outdoors Tips
Certain ice-fishing species favor specific habitats and conditions. Knowing where they’ll be helps you catch fish more effectively. Park your ATV or SxS along the shoreline and look here:
Rainbow trout seem to prefer bait lowered just several feet below the ice, even if the maximum depth is much deeper. Brook trout can be found down there. Opportunists that they are, lake trout (or "togue" to native New Englanders) tend to take big baitfish just off the lake bottom.
Dubbed...