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SD2OR with a trophy fall walleye

Topic: Kayak ice fishing  (Read 2165 times)

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pmmpete

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On April 20 I went kayak fishing on Flathead Lake from White Swan Bay.  When I headed away from shore, I was surprised to discover that the bay was mostly covered by a crust of ice which had formed the night before.  My Revolution broke through the ice, but it slowed me up a lot.  When I got out of the bay, wave action had broken up the ice, but there were big rafts of broken ice, and I had to avoid them and fish in the open areas until the ice melted.
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Amik

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Hope that’s the last of it for you, that stuff can be a pain in the neck where line is concerned. Care to mention the name of the jigging spoon that’s seen in the photo?


pmmpete

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Care to mention the name of the jigging spoon that’s seen in the photo?
It's a Zimmer "Rattle-D-Zaster," light green with glow panels.  I forget its weight, but it's about 3 inches long.  You need a jig that big to get down quickly to the 180-230 foot depths were you catch most lake trout by jigging in Flathead Lake.  I add a second treble hook on the top of the lure, and put pieces of cut bait on the hooks.  Most people, myself included, run Rattle-D-Zasters and other lead jigs with a small glow fly with a small piece of cut bait on it.  The fly can either be on a separate but shorter leader, or in the middle of the leader for the Rattle-D-Zaster.  People who are trying for small lake trout catch most of their fish on the fly, but plenty of big lake trout get caught on a fly.  I caught a 24 inch lake trout on a fly yesterday.

Because of the effectiveness of the fly when fishing for lake trout, some of the competitors in Mack Days take the hook off a Rattle-D-Zaster and use it just as a weight, and probably as an attractant because of its glow.  They run one fly below the Rattle-D-Zaster, and a second fly in the middle of the leader to the Rattle-D-Zaster.  I haven't tried that.