Sure we’ve all heard of Steelhead Trout= ocean going rainbows. Very feisty
but sea going brookies! I was amazed to learn of this. Up in Manitoba of all places. Guess i will have to crank up the heat on my electric vest and turn my Bavarian Camping tractor north
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Northern Manitoba = swamps, bugs and bears. Yay!
Lest anyone think I am just bagging on Manitoba, northern Ontario is much of the same. There’s a reason why nobody lives up there.
It is satisfying to hook up a nice fish on a rod that you’ve buit–with a fly that you’ve tied
With some of my Afghan lucre i’ve attended Bill Oyster’s bamboo fly rod building class. You start on a MON morning and by SAT night you come away with a bamboo fly rod that you’ve built from the culm
wrapping the ferrules and guides was fairly precise process
You can sign up for one of Bill Oyster’s classes but you have to do so with intent as they fill up quickly
Bill raced bikes back with Greg Lemond. Now he just teaches folks how to build bamboo rods
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what is much more likely is that i will take local advice and drive my moto up into BC to try the fly fishing there.
Not as adventurous as N Manitoba–but i’m not made of money so we have to keep this real
but Ocean Going Brook Trout! who knew?
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what is much more likely is that i will take local advice and drive my moto up into BC to try the fly fishing there.
Not as adventurous as N Manitoba–but i’m not made of money so we have to keep this real
but Ocean Going Brook Trout! who knew?
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BC is about 1,000,000 times nicer than Northern Manitoba.
If you want a brookies come to Ontario. Plenty of them here.
I spent about a thousand years once at Ft Drum, NY. What a miserable place that was. No wonder the US taxpayers stationed us there
Little did i know what great fishing i was next too. Dirty diapers and sqwalling children took the edge off it guess?
we did ditch the kids once and go do the Tri up in Smiths Falls Ontario
*cycling past the hershey chocolate factor was kind of sickening–nowadays i gather it’s a big weed indoor grow. Probably equally sickening to ride past
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Sure we’ve all heard of Steelhead Trout= ocean going rainbows. Very feisty
but sea going brookies! I was amazed to learn of this. Up in Manitoba of all places. Guess i will have to crank up the heat on my electric vest and turn my Bavarian Camping tractor north
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There are 2 creeks in/around cape cod that have sea run brookies. One is a spring creek which is unusual in the northeast. It can be less than 3 feet wide in places so fishing is pretty difficult with all the brush. I’ve seen striped bass in there as well. It’s pretty cool, I’ve been a few times. If you get the fly in the right spot the fish are pretty eager.
FYI I’m sure you know this but the first pic is a brown.
Brother
i am happy to be talking about anything other than politics
do you ty flies as well?
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about 99% of trout i catch end up like this
small (unlucky) percentage end up like this
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Same. 99% get released.
The last decent pike I caught (6 lbs) wasn’t so lucky. One of my friends wanted to cook up a fish for dinner. In the late afternoon I was just snore fishing and caught that one.
Called a friend to run and grab Ray. This was the fish if he wants to keep one.
boy howdy
that is a great fish
what sort of tackle did you catch it on?]
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Spinning rod for certain. When I fish in that spot I either use a gold Mepps Aglia #4 or a Senko rubber worm.
My memory isnt good enough to tell you which of the two I was using at the time. But nearly certainly one of those two.
i am not above bringing a fish to dinner when dinner is called in the back country–even on a spinning rig
How ever
I guess i’m like you and just release the fish back to this great land that God gifted us
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I am not a big fan of eating fish So I put them back.my friends like to cook one on each trip if we catch a decent one.
Mine was the unlucky loser.
Unfortunately we don’t have mountains like those in Ontario.
We have some hills.
Steve, that rod looks phenomenal. I will have to put that in the back of my mind for something to do in retirement.
I have fished for sea run brook trout in Newfoundland. Fly into St. John’s and drive an hour or so to various spots. I couldn’t catch one though. With a regular fly rod I couldn’t get the fly to where they were. Localsfishing beside me were catching them with Spey rods. Newfoundland has quite specific rules in places. Where I was fishing you could fish on one side of the river but not the other.
It wasn’t a great trip. Opening weekend but super windy and cold no brook trout caught. Only fish caught were brown trout inside city limits of St. Johns where we could get out of the wind.
They also have sea run brown trout.
Great pics fellas.
I had always heard pike were too bony to be a good eating fish. Not talking about the taste, as I’ve heard they’re quite tasty, just that all the bones made it a bit of a chore to pick through and eat.
Steve, some of my favorite fish eating experiences have been in the WY/CO mountains, backpacking in, no one around, my flyrod strapped to my pack and catching cutthroat trout in the alpine lakes/streams. Keeping a few to spit over an open fire always tasted superlative after a day of life well lived.
Sorry, no pictures to share as this was back in the day, before easy access to digital cameras.
I do plenty of fishing now, as its my main hobby, but I’m down in Texas so don’t get a chance to do northern fishing.
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Pike are bony if you don’t cut them right. Google how to fillet a pike and there are plenty of videos on how to do it properly. It’s not that difficult if you know what to do.
That sounds like a awesome trip. Do you have any pics from it that you can share?
Last year our family met up in Durango, CO. I treated my kids to a guided trip on the San Juan, down in NM. Great day of fishing
The guide was really great educating my kids on casting, bugs, what fish eat etc. i was a pleasure to watch them enjoy flying fishing on a great venue
The fishing in downtown Durango on the Animas R. wasn’t so bad either
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