Winter Season Rainbow trout often swim just below the ice. Use light lines to fish with small jigs tipped with waxworms or preserved minnows. Start just beneath the ice and go deeper until you have strikes. Your best chance of catching one is in June by fishing from shore with inflated nightcrawlers. Fish measuring 12 to 16 inches are possible.
Larger fish exist in some remote lakes.
Spring Look for brook trout and splake near points and shoreline shallows. Troll near shore with spinners tipped with worms. Cast or troll with dark-colored nymphs or Wooly Buggers. Summer Brook trout fishing is excellent in June and early July, but splake seem to disappear after Memorial Day. Use wet flies and dry flies to catch summer brookies.