Trotline Lake Trout Fishing

Video Transcript

"Here we're going to look at how to run a trap line for lake trout. Now the first thing you want to do in setting up a trap line for, for lake trout is to identify the bottom. You want to look at the depths of the bottom and if there's anything submerged. If you happen to have, an area that you know drops off into a little dish you might want to look at that. If you have some submerged vegetation a, an old wreck perhaps, something off to each side you'll find a lot of bait fish lurking and there you'll find the lake trout. Now in setting up a trap line for a lake trout it's a little bit like running perch except each hole that you use you're going to set up a tip up. So think of it as points on a compass where here's your center line, now for demonstration purposes we're in really tight here. You're going to be twenty yards apart on each one of these. For demonstration purposes here is our center point on the compass. We're going to set our first tip up and then we're going to come over twenty yards drill another hole and set up another tip up. This would be our center point; this would be our east tip up. Then we're going to come back and we're going to drill a north tip up, a west tip up and a south tip up."