Where to go?

[toddc]

well I guess I wasted words

[scud_17]

Wow.. i guess i'll stop asking for some advice... turns into a pissing match... wow...

[sawbill]

I'm fixing the problem so stick around.

[Back 2 basic]

well I guess I wasted words

worth a try it was good advice unfortunately do people know it all.
To bad this post got so far off track. It started out well and I was hoping to pick up a few tricks to ice my first bow.

[KEVERS]

worth a try it was good advice unfortunately do people know it all.
To bad this post got so far off track. It started out well and I was hoping to pick up a few tricks to ice my first bow.

Take all the tips that started off the thread, even Pikeattack's. I find alone is better when fishing for bows, less noise. Fish suspended, even in 4 ft. Use flurocarbon leaders, small hooks and tiny split shot. Rainbow have a small mouth for their size so use small bait. I like half a dewy or pin heads.

Some people swear buy 40 fow and fish suspended at 10 ft. I use my Vexilar and jig micro tubes, tungsten jig and bait, forage minnows, small rattle baits and maribooh jigs. Be ready for quick bites and drops, thats what they do. If they hit a line and drop it keep an eye on the other line, they can move very quick from one hole to the next. Make sure with dead sticks they can run line off, put the steel to them quick and hold on.

[greenpark]

Also I will add. Have patience when you go out the first couple times. I have been skunked more times fishing for rainbows than any other fish out there! When you do finally get a rainbow of size through the ice, enjoy it. The screaming drag and the flashes of pink while looking for your fish through the hole should give you enough patients until the next one. For lure choice and all that other stuff most of it has been covered, although a little spread out on this out of control post lol. Quiet and by your self is best. Kids making snowmen and running around on the ice while trying to catch rainbows is not the best. Trust me.

[scud_17]

Also I will add. Have patience when you go out the first couple times. I have been skunked more times fishing for rainbows than any other fish out there! When you do finally get a rainbow of size through the ice, enjoy it. The screaming drag and the flashes of pink while looking for your fish through the hole should give you enough patients until the next one. For lure choice and all that other stuff most of it has been covered, although a little spread out on this out of control post lol. Quiet and by your self is best. Kids making snowmen and running around on the ice while trying to catch rainbows is not the best. Trust me.

that is good advice!! lol so if I were to take my daughter fishing, it would have to be for splake or lakers! or walleye for that matter...

[Hardman]

Bottom right end of the lake just to the left of the 5 is where I would put my first day in. 7ft to 12ft

[intothedeep]

Take all the tips that started off the thread, even Pikeattack's. I find alone is better when fishing for bows, less noise. Fish suspended, even in 4 ft. Use flurocarbon leaders, small hooks and tiny split shot. Rainbow have a small mouth for their size so use small bait. I like half a dewy or pin heads.

Some people swear buy 40 fow and fish suspended at 10 ft. I use my Vexilar and jig micro tubes, tungsten jig and bait, forage minnows, small rattle baits and maribooh jigs. Be ready for quick bites and drops, thats what they do. If they hit a line and drop it keep an eye on the other line, they can move very quick from one hole to the next. Make sure with dead sticks they can run line off, put the steel to them quick and hold on.

Yup, I lost my nicest back lakes bow that way(I rarely ever target bows, mostly specks). Came in in a flash and grabbed the gulp tail off my jig and dropped it and a second later my set line went down... Pulling and screaming drag, a couple good runs then gone... Must have been a 3-5lber... All happened in a matter of seconds... Of course their could have been a school of bows in, but it happened as you say.

[KEVERS]

Yup, I lost my nicest back lakes bow that way(I rarely ever target bows, mostly specks). Came in in a flash and grabbed the gulp tail off my jig and dropped it and a second later my set line went down... Pulling and screaming drag, a couple good runs then gone... Must have been a 3-5lber... All happened in a matter of seconds... Of course their could have been a school of bows in, but it happened as you say.

LOL they are jerks for sure, and as a brookie fisherman you know how a speck sticks around until he gets the bait sometimes even after they have been stung, not bows. I do my best first ice, this year in early December i iced 4 17" to 19" bows first trip. Next three trips were quick bites and drops. There not big on chasing a bait either like a laker or splake would. On the flasher it is like they lose interest half way through the pursuit.

I believe they are not targeted as much as brookies,splake and lakers because of their finiky habits, i know the old boys in my area de-spise them which basically leaves the rainbow lakes all to myself.