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troutddicted

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#245138 Wilmot Creek Clean Up

Posted by troutddicted on 22 October 2012 - 12:31 PM

Hey gang,

Just got the go ahead from the Samuel Wilmot Nature Area guys for the annual clean up. The date is November 4 / 2012. We will start at 9 am and usually takes about 2 - 3 hours, depending on how many people show up. Last year we took out lots of trash and found lots of goodies too :cool:

I will provide gloves, garbage bags, water and disinfecting gel to clean up after wards. Meet at the Toronto St. parking lot near the lake and we will split up the areas. I have a truck to move the garbage bags. Usually around 15 bags of trash get pulled out...

Any questions feel free to post here or PM.
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#245046 line setup for trout-

Posted by troutddicted on 21 October 2012 - 10:00 PM

Well, what kind of rod are you using and what is your mainline... maybe you have an issue there.

I like to run 10 lb main line and 6lb flouro leader tied together by a swivel. Most of the time I run 18 - 24 inhes of leader.

Float --- few larger split shot right underneath it ------------------- split shot --------split shot ----- split shot --split shot - swivel ----------------------- flouro leader-------------------------- hook.
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#244988 Finally some Steel

Posted by troutddicted on 21 October 2012 - 03:21 PM

Welcome aboard hawkeye. The "geen" is short for the Saugeen River.
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#244971 Bayfield beauties

Posted by troutddicted on 21 October 2012 - 12:13 PM

you gotta be kidding me :lol: yeah that's a great comment for a "MODERATOR" to make. There are 100 noobs on this forum just hoping that a mod or a pro (and you're both) would respond to their post and make them feel accepted, maybe give them a pointer, but this is where you decide to weigh in? "awesome, great. Thanks for sharing don't worry about breaking the rules"


The report is great. Guy went step by step on what he used and how he fished. I missed the specific part of the report, it was reported and dealt with it. If the poster chooses to write up what river they fished that is kosher. Specific areas are not allowed.

Its best to educate people through PM, a simple explanation of the effects posting delicate information can have on fisheries will have a stronger effect rather than lashing out at people over the forums publicly. I've messaged countless members over the years that were being too specific with areas, even before I was a moderator. We all try to do our part my friend, you will have to take my word for it.

Members play an active roll in forums, if it wasn't for the members, the post would still be up as originally posted.
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#236868 Speck Labourin' : Northern Ontario adventure

Posted by troutddicted on 30 August 2012 - 02:06 AM

Best depth finders ever.

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Would we do it again. Yes.

Would we recommend it to others? Yes.

Lessons learned

1. Watch where fish are being caught.
2. No expectations.
3. Be versatile
4. NEVER GIVE UP!
5. Don't drive at night if possible.
6. Just because they're local, doesn't mean they know.... well, don't rely on information from ONE person :lol:

Thanks for an amazing trip guys. Special shout out goes to forum member SmackUm for taking the time in answering questions and Dundas for the long PM's

Good night.

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#236867 Speck Labourin' : Northern Ontario adventure

Posted by troutddicted on 30 August 2012 - 02:06 AM

That night we ended up at bear hunting lodge to sleep and then the morning I almost lost two friends came. Today was tributary fishing day. We had picked out a few spots we wanted to try. The first spot nearly killed us from exhaustion. A couple of hours of sleep a few nights in a row catches up and horrible estimations of distance provided from locals almost led to our demise. 2 hours of trekking we arrive to our spot.

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Wasn't much time before we hit a decent river brookie. despotiko's catch.

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Rivers were low and loaded with small fish. One/two drifts/"tosses" in each pool and you had to move on.

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Dry fly paradise, lots of active fish.

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This one is for you CC ;)

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After scouting the one river we were done. 1 pm came around... off we were to the spot where the world record brookie was caught. Blh blah blah I'm getting tired... long story short the place was full or 15 - 18 inchers and we caught 8 fish in a day and half.

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#236866 Speck Labourin' : Northern Ontario adventure

Posted by troutddicted on 30 August 2012 - 02:05 AM

We started off the next morning by going to the same spot... after a tough sleep. Thunder kept us up for most of the night but by first light were were out. I'm telling you, we did a LOT of work that entire weekend... one night we slept in the car for a couple of hours... I ended up sleeping outside in the boat because one of the team mates snored for the most part. We were sleep deprived, thats for sure. I digress.. the morining ended with a couple fish landed... what to do? This isn't the same as yesterday. Jump in the boat and explore... and it paid off huge. Lesson learned here, be versatile.

We went up stream closer to the dam where the water got fast. You either have someone controlling the boat while others fish, or have it anchored with 2 or 3 spare anchors ready in case you loose 'em all. We found a seam from very fast current to frog water... fish loved it and so did we. They even smashed our bobbers, enough reason to try topwater ;) Best of all it was accessible by shore so we anchored, dented the boat numerous times and started fishing. Every new spot. and almost every switch of bait hooked up with fish, landing them was a challenge at times. We lost a lot of fish. Most were 10 - 18 inches.

Across the river we noticed guys hooking into fish like us but then one dude hooks into a big fish... the sucker ran the dude down stream and they couldn't pull it it :lol: They pulled anchor and chased the fish down stream to net it. It looked big. They took off so we naturally took their spot. Only other boat we saw the 3 days we were there...

We positioned and we fished and hit the mother load. We thought those guys did well. We watched them pull 15 fish between two guys in two hours. But we did better. More fish in the 15 inch range in terms of brookies until these two dandy's came out to play. The following picture is the fish of the trip in my eyes. A long 26" fish on a pin :lol:

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This pig was interesting.... remember those top water bobber smashes... well, I landed a smaller 18 inch fish with this sub surface hard bait. Came out trashing out of the water. Second time tossed, another strike from a smaller fish, missed the hook set and this cutie came up and whacked it.

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CJR caught some whitefish which were awesome to see thrown into the mix along with some suckers :lol: Diversity, Indians! :lol:

After an awesome day of fishing we decided we will stay an extra day... well guess what, I'll make it short. Storm came at night, water levels rose... we couldn't figure them out 100% before noon.

A couple fish here and there but no real numbers and consistency so we took off and headed to another area.

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Chinnies were in thick. Glad we made the move.

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I though I got hung up on a branch under water and it broke off, reeling it in from 25 meters. Even told my colleagues I had hooked a log. To my surprise I went to land a few of these golden nuggets.

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In town I even hooked into a new PB brookie.

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Upon further inspection, we noticed the entire town had a brookie ( or is it spec? ) influence...a mural in town.

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#236865 Speck Labourin' : Northern Ontario adventure

Posted by troutddicted on 30 August 2012 - 02:04 AM

Wont soon forget this one...

Started off our adventure with the mob with me and a full tank of gas, well... at the end of it all, ten full tanks.

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Truckin' along during the night wasn't the wisest of ideas but hey, travel by night, fish by day. Timed it so we could make it to St Mary's in the Soo but we never ended up making it on time... didn't matter though, we were running on a couple of hours of sleep and full of energy fishing a new system. We got there around 10 A.M. and started to fish. This is one scary place... especially that concrete wall that is submerged and runs parallel with the river... standing on that concrete wall 25 meters from the dam is a hair raising experience... I think I will bring a life jacket next time so I feel more confident trekking through that river. We got skunked, fished it very hard only to have spotted 5- 8 chinnies near the dam and I had small fish of some sorts tear my roe bag... I swear :lol: We will be back...

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We headed off that night, an 8 hour rush towards Thunder Bay... word of advice... take a jerry can full of gas if you ever travel up those ways. We were tipped off of this particular fishing area by a board member from another site. Got to the launch, packed up the boat and off we were racing to get to our destination... so approx. a 1300 km drive and a 15 km boat ride we arrived.

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We were intimidated... well at least I was. I wont lie... These gorges were 100 meters above water level and an additional 25 meters deep below :o Breath taking scenery, we had a Bald Eagle who lived in area. Quite the show when you see it cruising through the islands and perching up on trees. It was always so far away from us, would have loved to take some pictures of it. This entire area made you feel like a speck of dust... Spectacular.

This made focusing at first hard.... so much water, everywhere you looked, you would see something fishable. So we started fishing. We did our research and what we found was that we needed to keep a small trib mentality on the big system. These pictures do not to justice, but this river is Niagara's little brother in some places.

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So we fished some slower moving water... in ONE of the channels :lol:

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Nothing... until we were cruising back and noticed a boat fishing the seam of this small riffle.... it looked scary at first. I've never done anything like this, using the boat in current, took a bit of getting used to it but I got the hang of it and sure enough... bang, fish on. Our first brook trout of the trip... a small one but hey, at least we now know there are fish around. CJR put on a clinic that day... go figure... we were using the same method yet he some how managed to catch 7, our man despotiko rounded up one, and I came back to camp with no fish landed. One of CJR's fish.

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LET ME GO!

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#234044 Fishing... far, far, away...

Posted by troutddicted on 15 August 2012 - 03:21 PM

Got up stupid early this morning and headed for some new water. 2 hours goes by fast when you're sleeping :lol: Caught numerous fish and here are the highlights, not that these fish are in anyway superior to the others caught, just bigger and cooler lookin' :cool:

Here are two beasties from today.

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Here's a couple of browns.

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Had some great weather and spectacular fishing.
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#227820 An open mind for opener.

Posted by troutddicted on 13 April 2012 - 04:49 PM

Ah, great report, apart from the 4 legged hummigbird.
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#225572 observations

Posted by troutddicted on 09 March 2012 - 08:59 PM

When I worked for a pond shop, our boss, rarely made us touch the fish, especially customers $5,000++ koi, he was tigheter about that slime than a ducks rear end, and thats waterproof!
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#225171 Credit River Today

Posted by troutddicted on 05 March 2012 - 01:58 AM

Think I saw Dozer in that VID!!
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:lol:

My reel, trophy catching
Your reel, good for nothing,

My reel, ABEC thirty two,
Your reel, cant spin for poop dood!

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#217224 Top SECRET POOL

Posted by troutddicted on 08 October 2011 - 12:25 PM

THOSE RED ROCKS ARE A DEAD GIVE AWAY!!!!!!!!!!! <_<

l2p, stellar fish! You really have these fsh dialed in... Hows your guiding service coming along? I met a guy last week on the creek said he went out with you and you two did well, glad to hear things are working out :wink:
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