01-10-2019, 02:19 PM
There aren't any "bigger" rainbows. For whatever reason you choose, Fish Lake just simply does not produce rainbows much bigger than what you've already caught. If you are after rainbow trout, there are numerous better rainbow trout fisheries all over the state that you can go to. Fish Lake is not a rainbow trout destination.
To catch the bigger lake trout, you have to do 1 of 2 things:
A. Get lucky
B. spend a lot of time fishing deeper water without much action.
Large fish (splake and lake trout) can be caught using your standard techniques fishing in 20 - 40 feet of water. It happens all the time. Call it luck, or whatever else you want. Those big fish will very often be found cruising that weedline looking for a meal. So, you could simply stay in close to the weeds and have much better action and just cross your fingers that you might get something big.
Or, you can head out to the barren waste-lands of 70 - 100 feet of water and fish right next to the bottom. Watch your sonar. Cross your fingers. Drink a lot of coffee. Oh, and cross your fingers.
Good luck. You might get that "big" fish on your next trip. Or you might spend the next 25 years trying to find that "big" fish. That's the great thing about fishing: you just never know what's going to grab your line.
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To catch the bigger lake trout, you have to do 1 of 2 things:
A. Get lucky
B. spend a lot of time fishing deeper water without much action.
Large fish (splake and lake trout) can be caught using your standard techniques fishing in 20 - 40 feet of water. It happens all the time. Call it luck, or whatever else you want. Those big fish will very often be found cruising that weedline looking for a meal. So, you could simply stay in close to the weeds and have much better action and just cross your fingers that you might get something big.
Or, you can head out to the barren waste-lands of 70 - 100 feet of water and fish right next to the bottom. Watch your sonar. Cross your fingers. Drink a lot of coffee. Oh, and cross your fingers.
Good luck. You might get that "big" fish on your next trip. Or you might spend the next 25 years trying to find that "big" fish. That's the great thing about fishing: you just never know what's going to grab your line.
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