How to Attract Inuit Fish

Inuit fish is a broad term used to describe the types of fish caught by the people living in the Arctic. Inuit people hunt year-round, even through difficult winters, using sealskin floats and spears. The main fish caught by the Inuit people are trout, whitefish and Arctic char. You can attract the same types of fish caught by the Inuit people using a fishing rod and bait or lures.

Things You'll Need

  • General purpose rod with fixed spool reel
  • Small bright lures
  • Wet flies
  • Small tube bait
  • Salted minnows
  • Chum can
  • Jigging spoons
  • Maggots
  • Spinners
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Instructions

    • 1

      Catch Arctic char by using wet flies or a small bright lure. Togiak River in southwest Alaska is a hotspot for this type of Inuit fish; however, it can also be found in lakes throughout Alaska. If you are sports fishing, you could catch a char weighing more than 10 pounds.

    • 2

      Attract whitefish using tube bait measuring between 3 and 4 inches long. This is a small tube with a series of tentacles attached at one end. The tentacles attract the whitefish; it enters the tube and is enclosed. But whitefish are small and it is more advantageous to attract them using additional fishing techniques such as chumming and using live bait. Chumming involves dumping salted minnows on the sea bed to entice the whitefish, and then catching them with baited hooks.

    • 3

      Catch the whitefish using lures. Jigging spoons are recommended for attracting them. According to the Lake Simcoe Outdoors website, Williams half-n-half whitefish spoons, Williams wablers and Krocodile spoons are suitable for catching whitefish. Experiment by using a number of different types of lures to find one that works best.

    • 4

      Bait a hook using lobworms, maggots or casters to catch trout. If you leave maggots for a couple of days, they will turn to chrysalis, which is the next stage of the maggot's development. These are effective trout bait. This is a common fish found in lakes and streams in the U.S., not only in the Arctic.

    • 5

      Attach a spinner to a hook to attract trout. This is a colorful lure that rotates and spins in the water as it is reeled in. The trout is attracted to this movement because the lure moves and resembles a smaller fish.