Big Bear Lake Trolling for Holdovers

[TrouTracker]

To Steve- Those holdovers are fun on the troll. I knew with the increased temperatures that the holdovers would start migrating to the west end. Beautiful fighters with full tails are always fun to catch on ultra-light gear. Congrats on your slaying on the troll, not quite like the Jewel, but still a whole lot of fun........

[DIS]

Im heading out to Big Bear Lake Thursday morning... I will be trolling using leadcore rigged with blades/flashers with a nightcrawler on the back. Your post states that the trout were holding at around 14' - 19' deep so im probably going to be at around 3-4 colors... Any suggestions on location? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[TrouTracker]

To DIS- A good suggestion would be to head out to the northwest side of the lake. One of the reasons is that the warmer temperatures are making the holdovers migrate to deeper water. Start at 3/4 colors and move down a color if you're not getting hit. Northwest side of the lake is not too deep, so watch your FF carefully. If you can rig a secondary trailer hook, that would be ideal. We used basically a crawler harness and half a crawler to avoid short strikes. You may want to use a little attractant on the crawler, as Berkley Trout Dip w/corn scent did the trick for us. Good luck out there and let us know how you did.......