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Wow a couple of those bows are really colored up. Love the rainbows out of Starvy. Thanks for the report and pic.
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Welcome to the site forstates and thanks for posting your report and pics. Looks like you guys had a good trip. Did you try casting any lures?
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Thanks, we did not use lures. I tried worms with little success. Does anyone have any idea what type of bait to use when we ice fish on starvation?
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The last time I was there we used meal or wax worms but after we caught perch we used a strip of perch meat. For the bows we also used power bait and salmon eggs.
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I use crawlers and wax worms. I've caught rainbows, perch, and walleye on crawlers. Like wiperhunter2, I like to cut up a small perch (or bring some that I've prepped at home) to tip jigs with. I like trying a variety of baits to see what they want. Typically one or more of the three I've mentioned will produce. My personal best rainbow came out of Starvation through the ice at Rabbit Gulch a year ago. It was just over 24 inches and I caught it on one of TubeDude's pale perch pattern jigs with a chunk of crawler on it.
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[quote forstates]Thanks, we did not use lures. I tried worms with little success. Does anyone have any idea what type of bait to use when we ice fish on starvation?[/quote]
[#0000FF]More important than what you use is first finding the fish. They will hit almost anything...crawler bits, wax worms, meal worms, perch meat, "bottle baits", etc. But when you are fishing vertically under the ice you need to watch your sonar.
The trout usually come through at some point between the top and bottom. Commonly you will see them anywhere from 12 feet to 25 feet deep over deeper water. If you are fishing the bottom in 40 feet...for perch...the trout will show up as occasional marks well above the bottom. Then you need to reel up quickly to that depth and you will often get bit. If you are using two rods it sometimes pays to keep one soaking at the depth you are seeing most of the trout, while you jig with the other one.
Soaking bait on the bottom will catch a few trout but you will usually do much better by being able to monitor the whole water column and present your offerings to the fish at their depth when they come through.
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]Went up to starvation on Friday, 1-9-15. We could not find open water except on the rabbit gulch side. We hiked around the bay for about 1/4 mile. caught 6 really nice size rainbows, 17-21 inches. We started by using green power bait with no luck. We caught most of them on red power bait.
