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Trout Season begins!

8/30/2014

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Surface temps in our Calabogie lakes is 67-69F.  That is safe enough for Catch and Release fishing.   And also the fish will come to the surface for bugs and your flies!  The above brookie was caught on an emerging midge which was just below the surface.

At another lake, I caught a rainbow down deep with a Coney Leech.  It really should be called a Minky Leech as I had tied it with longer mink fur.   Mink has more action then rabbit.  My cats also like the strip of fur as I find it in all sorts of places in the house.

My favorite rainbow lake has been recently invaded by pumpkinseed.  With MNR's approval I am removing as many as I can catch.  I have a wet bag and I put them in and take them home for the raccoons.  It is OK fishing with the 3wt.  This winter I shall make a 1 wt fly rod to continue my ethnic cleansing in style.   Please do the same.  Many readers of this blog know what lake I am talking about.  It is one of the OFS's adopted lakes  in which we did supplementary stocking a few years back.
3 Comments
Cyrus
9/10/2014 09:38:02 am

Good to see the surface temps are down this early, i'll wait a week at least before trying some of the lakes near by. Do you know if the ministry has any plans to stock the rainbow lake this fall?

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Bob
9/10/2014 04:02:20 pm

Since I made this post, I've been back and the surface temps have gone back up, some as high as 75F. Trout will avoid water at that temperature. Usually the surface temp will go down 10ft, sometimes further.
Yes, there will be a fall stocking of Rainbows sometime in October. It was too cold this spring and they couldn't organize it in time.

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Cyrus
9/11/2014 06:30:48 am

Thanks for the info! I wen't back there to camp for a night the beginning of august right after the cold weather brought the temps down, a few were caught using a black wooly bugger about 20 feet down but we found most fish were hugging the bottom in 45 feet of water. I don't plan on targeting them during the summer again but it was nice to experience it for once, the trout we did release swam back strong but i can't be sure how well they survived after coming up from that deep. I'm looking forward to hearing how well you do this fall, good luck out there!




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