Brook trout fishing tips

[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

[roadwarrior]

Panther Martin, black with chartreuse dots and gold blade.

[TheBasslayer]

4 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Panther Martin, black with chartreuse dots and gold blade.

I slay the Brown Trout in my creek with this lure! Sadly I've never caught a Brook Trout since I am too far south to catch one, but I'm guessing that if you try a fly, it may work. Just buy a clear bobber and tie a fly on, it may work. You never know. With the bobber, you don't need a fly-fishing pole.

[NYWayfarer]

Since the season started I have caught Brook Trout on all of the following:

 

Kastmaster type spoon. They love it on the fall. 
worm and bobber

worm and split shot rig

Blue fox Vibrax in-line spinner

Trout magnet jighead with wax worm on the hook under a bobber.

 

 

[redmeansdistortion]

CD01 Countdown is my go to for brookies.  The fire minnow and hot mustard muddler are the more productive colors for the areas I fish.  The UV pink and UV orange work very well too.

[Spankey]

Black Wooly Bugger or black bead head nymph. 

[mrpao]

Caught some small brookies today. The state finally stocked some brook trout into our rivers.

Usually i catch browns with some rainbows mixed in.