How To Set Up Tip Ups For Lake Trout

13022020 Our website with all the tackle we use to effectively put fish on the ice each winter.

How to set up tip ups for lake trout. I use the large spooled tip-ups and spool them with 20 plastic coated tip-up lineadd a snap swivel and tie on a 4 10 to 14 mono leader and a hook of your choice. Trout normally put up a pretty good fight and thats the main reason I like going after them. 21112019 How to Set Up a Tip Up First you need to rig up your tip up system.

Use a spoon jig or bucktail jig with live bait. Two beams of about 15 inches are crossed in an X and lay horizontally over the hole in the ice. Reel the line tight and watch the rod tip for a bite.

27122019 The tip-up device itself is simple. Using one bankstick is best. Jigging is the best technique if you are on a boat but other than that you do not need any special kind of line or rod or equipment.

07122016 In order to get the tip up flag to work tie an arbor knot with the line around the tip up reel and hand wrap the line evenly in a clockwise direction. When you cast hold the rod tip high to keep line out of the current until the leger feeder hits bottom of the river. Make sure the line can handle the weight of the fish youre catching.

There arent many things better than landing a big lake trout on lighter tackle and in this post Im going to be talking about how to catch trout from the shore. This will easily lure in the lake trout to your bait. With this being our first live feed we wanted to start off right and do a great tip video for a little pre ice.

Select your tip-up bait. The perfect tip-up baits for lake trout. The deflection occurs because with a shallow line the minnow will flop around giving the hole away.