I've gone out on average once a week to the Calabogie Highlands since ice-off and to date I've landed two trout, one Rainbow and one Brook Trout that are older than 2 years. I've caught lots of this year's stockers but that is not what we all want to catch. They are delicate for the first month or so after stocking and should not be targetted. It has been argued that the fish are there, just not biting. But my records show a significant decline each year for the past three years in all of the lakes that I fish regularly. I record species, numbers caught, released, dates and lakes. We all should be doing this and reporting to OMNR so they know that fish are being caught. If they don't get reports, they will stop stocking a lake! But are there two year old fish in the lakes? One fisher I talked to said he pulled out 30 brookies out of a small lake ice fishing in just a few minutes and they all averaged two pounds! That means they are at the surface just below the ice trying to survive with the remaining oxygenated water. In other jurisdictions they close small lakes to ice fishing. Quebec closes all trout lakes to ice fishing. Something needs to change or we won't have a worthwhile trout fishery close to the Capital. Actually, I recently talked to a few fishers from Bancroft and their stocked trout lakes aren't that good either and they were down here fish
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