You can use a portable depth sounder to spot fish suspended in deeper water. Up to eight pounders are caught every winter. Stocking begins March 3 this year and trout are easy to find and catch in the fifty or so stocked ponds, rivers and streams of the Cape and Islands. Popular AND successful lures and spoons and spinners are usually small and silver to take the most fish. Flies like muddlers and woolly buggers are the rule in black and brown and green.
All baits work near bottom or below bobbers.
As it warms, the trout go deeper and the successful fishermen follows by trolling minnow imitations or suspending bait. The big fish go to patient fishing of big shiners below bobbers for pond Browns. Check the Regulations for species and size. Occasionally jigging big spoons, try lying on the ice looking through the hole covered over with your coat while jigging. You'll see more.