Your total guide to catching splake through the ice

 

Nothing will test your patience more than ice fishing for splake, the stunningly beautiful cross between male brook trout and female lakers. It’s not that these fish are particularly difficult to catch. Rather, they have a split personality and behave erratically as individuals, even in the same lake on the same day. It’s as though they can’t decide whether to act like brookies or lakers. Here’s how to get in on the action…