Marcusfishing31

hello everyone I am Marcus and new to the forum, I have a few questions to ask about brook trout fishing at a local lake near my house. The ice has been out for roughly two weeks now at the local lake and ive tried numerous times for some ice out brooks ( catch n release ofc), with practically zero luck at all, ive throw blue foxes, to jerkabits and no bites at all. The water tempatuere is just about 50F on the shore and this was yesterday I checked, with this week being really warm will defiantly help warm it up. So, does anyone have any tips like what depth to fish, more lures to fish, and why am I struggling so much to get some trout, even through ice out is supposed to be very good? last year I was hammering them towards the mid may year but last years weather was much colder than this years at least so far. if you have any tips on baits, water depth and structure to fish, and water temperature please respond as I am open to anything, im just very puzzled on why im not getting any a action from fish latletly, and do you think with the weeks worth of 15-20c weather will help me? thanks Marcus

No about a half year old but rarely used

Hello, I’m having problems With my reel I spooled it up with mono backing to my braid and everything is working just fine now thank you everyone for the help, now when I tighten my reels drag star when I pull the line out it’s making like a loud almost screeching sound while I pull the line out only on the tight drag setting now the low drag, it’s a lews speed spool and just has the standard magnetic breaks please feel free to leave your suggestions bellow thanks Marcus.

I’m using 25lb braid thays even overkill where I live in Canada but it’ll do LOL. Thank you for the responses I will give this a try

Hello I’m new to the forums and looking for help. When I’m spooling my baitcater reel after I’m done half the line is tangled or knotted in its self and when I’m pulling it back it’s almost like the line is peeling out from like the back opposite side of the baitcaster reel. It is only doing this for braid I spooled up a reel yesterday with fluorocarbon and it was super easy. Does anyone know what I can do to prevent this thx Marcus.