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Hi
i need some tactics on catching trout in the Calabogie area, last couple weeks i went up there in my yak and we didnt catch anything. I was just wondering if you got any advice on what i can do to increase my success? I also dont own a fly fishing rod or no much about fly fishin . hopefully ill learn

thanks

What tactics were you using when you were there?

It's pretty warm to be targeting trout these days. You'd be better off waiting till Sept when the water starts to cool down again.

I was just useing worms on a splitshot and also small flashy spinner.

When i went there i ran into a couple of anglers and they caught about 9 just that day and i also seen them reel 2 of them in and they just went back to land for a quick shore lunch, they hopped back in there canoe and not even 10min they landed two really good size trout about a foot and a half long.

Did you ask them what they were using? If not, were they using tackle or flies?

The fishing is though right now on a few lakes known to produce good numbers of brook trout. We were out two weeks ago and landed 7 trout, biggest around 18'', the rest were all under 15''. The following weekend I tried everything in the tackle tote I had that were all known trout killers, nothing seemed to work. The warmer weather has really made the lake fishing sluggish enough to keep me from going back out until Sept for sure. Keep trying, the fish are in there.

I would take a whirl around the lake with a portable fishfinder(If you have one) and find the deeper contours of the lake, most of the fish rainbow, browns and brookies will all be concentrated around these areas right now. I am use to fishing brook trout very shallow, this year was the first time I have fished them so deep (15-25FOW) for them, it seemed to pay off big with some nice speckles landed.

Be there on the right morning or evening and hold on. It's weird how trout feast.

-Andrew

I better add I was not flyfishing but using the same tactics as you. Small spinners with worms and small trout hooks with three to four small split-shots spaced about a foot from each other to get right down to the bottom was working very well for me and my partner

Any pics of that 18"er Andrew?...that's a good one for Bogie...

sorry no pictures and i forgot to ask what they were using, well on that day i did put a split shot and i seen the brown come up and hit my split shot and not the worm. my brother has a fish finder on his yak but still they are not biting at the bottom usually on surface. But ill try your advice on the split shot and spinner. Also in that lake there are some bait fish, and was wondering do minnows work?

Thanks for the input everyone

RJ wrote:Any pics of that 18"er Andrew?...that's a good one for Bogie...

Our Fuji has been finished since the spring Unfortunatly to repair the lens would be ...You would be quite suprised of the size of trout I have caught in the last little while RJ. The speckle was not on the tape but I am pretty good at measurments. I nailed a PB stream bow as well not too long ago. Why not join us for us day.

Sorry for the lack of reports everyone The camera is bad luck anyway

Most of the lakes I fish are just littered with dace, and big ones too. I take it that's why the trout are a bit bigger in these waters. The dace and small white micro tubes worked really well in the winter through the ice, for browns too

All caught on the white tube and/or a dace minnow...I would say give it a go, but again fish deep.


-Andrew

Tip-up wrote:Most of the lakes I fish are just littered with dace, and big ones too. I take it that's why the trout are a bit bigger in these waters. The dace and small white micro tubes worked really well in the winter through the ice, for browns too

All caught on the white tube and/or a dace minnow...I would say give it a go, but again fish deep.


-Andrew

hey andrew that was a sweet day. and a nice rainbow to boot! big fish were taken that day!!!


but andrew nothing beats that rainbow you got in that creek!!!

One more thing, Tip-Up is right the browns love the white tube with minnow. hey andrew remember the brown's i caught this winter

Katch Moore wrote:One more thing, Tip-Up is right the browns love the white tube with minnow. hey andrew remember the brown's i caught this winter

How do you bait that??? Does the tube not cover the hook?? You use a larger hook then normal??

where did you catch these big ones?
did you catch them in the QC side or ON?
Ill be interested in going im new too trout fishing and just started this year so far so good. I did alot of searching on my own , its hard starting from scratch
but it paid off, hopefully one day ill find a cold stream that hold these babies