Hey guys so I am in need of a little bit of trout advice, i am an avid bass and river/stream trout angler but heres my problem i have never targeted trout in lakes. I have two lakes both 25-30 acres that have maximum depths of 35-40'. both lakes were formed by glaciers and are round in shape almost like a bowl. browns and bows are stocked each fall and spring in these ponds and i know for a fact these fish holdover (a friend of mine once did a dive on one of these lakes and said the browns were huge and looked like torpedosi am unsure of the forage at both these lakes the one lake just has trout, panfish and pickerel (no bass) how would you target these lakes for trout? I have read up a little bit and saw some guys vertically jig them but have never done that before

 

PS none of these trout thy are all stocked fish that hold over

Can't go wrong with a ultra light rod throwing 1/16 oz. rooster tails!

Can you see where the body of water is fed from? Trout line up in moving current. I fish one lake were we know where the under ground spring is that feeds it. When we put the boat on top of that spot we clean house catching trout. We would use Kraft velvita

Cheese. But the trout hit one very fast strike. You need to be lightening fast on the hook set. The cheese caught all the bigger trout. We used a split shot rig with cheese.

The larger live minnows works too. The wordens inline spinners work too. Here the silver blade with the white body and white buck tail works for trolling. Some use spoons too.

For lures: Rooster tails and kast masters.

Bait fishing: powerbait, salmon eggs, night crawlers...

My Line setup: hook is 18-36 inches away from the weight.

If there are big browns then smaller shad raps and jerkbaits will get them

how about trout swimbaits for the bass?

 

just a thought ....