Catching Trout on an Ice Fishing "Tip Up"

Video Transcript

"Wanted to share a little little trick for catching trout on a on a tip up. The majority of people, I would say you know ninety-nine percent of ice fishermen, when they put a tip up down they put a minnow on it, and that that's a very good technique; it accounts for many, many fish. Trout will certainly bite on it. But what I've found, especially for rainbow trout, these fish during the winter tend to cruise just under the ice, literally a foot or two beneath the ice, and a lot of times when you're fishing minnows that shallow, they tend to move, and they tend to come back up the hole. But one of the things that I've found is if you take a night crawler, and you put it on your tip up hook, just loop it through a few times so it kind of dangles, and then what I'm going to do with that, I'm just going to lower it till' it's just below the ice; literally six inches to a foot, that's all you need. Sometimes sometimes you don't even use the full leader. And I'm just going to set my tip up right there, and wait for a trout to bite. And more often than not, eventually you're going to find a rainbow trout cruising right under the ice. It's going to come upon that night crawler, it's going to think it has an easy meal, and you're going to have a fish on the ice."