We'll have to do something about these ice fisherman, cleaning out the lakes. We are fishers too and we should let MNR know that some of these lakes should be left as flyfishing only and no ice fishing (like out west).
bobfly
Limestone Lake
Limestone Lake
I had to meet a client up Calabogie way so I thought I would bring my float tube and do some fishing. OK lets reverse that. I wanted to do some fishing so I arranged to meet a client. It was late Wed afternoon. Caught no trout so I headed for the bay just to the left of the bluff to check out for bass. There were all sorts of them swimming back and forth with no purpose like kids in the mall. Couldn't get them to take a dry so I tried all sorts of wets. I then put on a trout scent mixture like that guide from NY who gave that talk to the club. They all crowded around the fly but no takers until I decided to leave and one gave a nip. Landed one perch on my way back and went home as the sun set. Getting cold.
We'll have to do something about these ice fisherman, cleaning out the lakes. We are fishers too and we should let MNR know that some of these lakes should be left as flyfishing only and no ice fishing (like out west).
bobfly
We'll have to do something about these ice fisherman, cleaning out the lakes. We are fishers too and we should let MNR know that some of these lakes should be left as flyfishing only and no ice fishing (like out west).
bobfly
Ice fish melt when you try to cook them.......
Bobfly...careful on targeting bass....season doesn't open until the end of June.
Limestone has some nice trout, but they're tough to take on the fly. I prefer to wait till bass season and go for the largemouth in the shallows.
Bobfly...careful on targeting bass....season doesn't open until the end of June.
Limestone has some nice trout, but they're tough to take on the fly. I prefer to wait till bass season and go for the largemouth in the shallows.
Time's fun when you're having flies.
Yes Bob, targeting bass is illegal. There may not be many fish in that lake but I doubt its fished out...besides its a stocked put/grow/take lake. They put the fish there to be caught and kept, they don't spawn and will die eventually......however I do hate seeing a gang hit a lake for a couple days, fish the hell out of it and take a pile of fish....thats being a pig.
Not sure how your fishing but it sounds to me as if your doing alot of casting and from your earlier post fishing way too fine (6X). I think Limestone is a rainbow lake ..right? Rainbows cruise the lake looking for food and relate little to shore or structure unless there is food there. You're better off trolling a streamer covering lots of water. Something like a Black Ghost, Micky Finn or even a Wooly Bugger sz 6 or 8. Use a 10 ft level piece of 4 or 6lb mono for a leader. You could also get a paper thin flutter spoon to use as an attractor. Take off the hooks and run it 12"-18" ahead of the fly.
Also try drifting slowly over logs and weeds fishing a dragonfly or damsel nymph. A fat black or brown wooly worm is a good dragon nymph.
Not sure how your fishing but it sounds to me as if your doing alot of casting and from your earlier post fishing way too fine (6X). I think Limestone is a rainbow lake ..right? Rainbows cruise the lake looking for food and relate little to shore or structure unless there is food there. You're better off trolling a streamer covering lots of water. Something like a Black Ghost, Micky Finn or even a Wooly Bugger sz 6 or 8. Use a 10 ft level piece of 4 or 6lb mono for a leader. You could also get a paper thin flutter spoon to use as an attractor. Take off the hooks and run it 12"-18" ahead of the fly.
Also try drifting slowly over logs and weeds fishing a dragonfly or damsel nymph. A fat black or brown wooly worm is a good dragon nymph.
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Re: Limestone Lake
bobfly wrote:I had to meet a client up Calabogie way so I thought I would bring my float tube and do some fishing. OK lets reverse that. I wanted to do some fishing so I arranged to meet a client. It was late Wed afternoon. Caught no trout so I headed for the bay just to the left of the bluff to check out for bass. There were all sorts of them swimming back and forth with no purpose like kids in the mall. Couldn't get them to take a dry so I tried all sorts of wets. I then put on a trout scent mixture like that guide from NY who gave that talk to the club. They all crowded around the fly but no takers until I decided to leave and one gave a nip. Landed one perch on my way back and went home as the sun set. Getting cold.
We'll have to do something about these ice fisherman, cleaning out the lakes. We are fishers too and we should let MNR know that some of these lakes should be left as flyfishing only and no ice fishing (like out west).
bobfly
I would have to say that the naming of small bogie lakes here on fish-hawk would destroy a trout population much quicker than a few ice fishermen... Keep in mind that every time you name a lake you are advertising to thousands...
thanks for all the replies. Three points:
1) As far as I am concerned these are designated trout lakes so all other species don't belong there and are fair game especially pike which target trout. You have to speak practically here and not necessarily legally because there is only a miniscule chance of a warden arriving on the scene and how is going to even guess what you are fishing for. "Any fly can catch any fish". In Alberta, back in the 80's they poisoned all the lakes in order to stock them properly. At least over there they know how to service the sportsman.
2) Ice fishing is totally unsportsmanlike. Good for drinking if that is what you like to do.
3) These lakes are so overfished already that reporting them on line won't make any difference. Last year I reported on Twin Lakes several times and even on weekends, I was the only one on the lake. Besides the more fishermen get skunked, the more likely something will be done about it. Most of the flyfishers here go to the States where they actually have a fish program. I just happen to live close to the Highlands.
bobfly
1) As far as I am concerned these are designated trout lakes so all other species don't belong there and are fair game especially pike which target trout. You have to speak practically here and not necessarily legally because there is only a miniscule chance of a warden arriving on the scene and how is going to even guess what you are fishing for. "Any fly can catch any fish". In Alberta, back in the 80's they poisoned all the lakes in order to stock them properly. At least over there they know how to service the sportsman.
2) Ice fishing is totally unsportsmanlike. Good for drinking if that is what you like to do.
3) These lakes are so overfished already that reporting them on line won't make any difference. Last year I reported on Twin Lakes several times and even on weekends, I was the only one on the lake. Besides the more fishermen get skunked, the more likely something will be done about it. Most of the flyfishers here go to the States where they actually have a fish program. I just happen to live close to the Highlands.
bobfly
Bobfly I agree with you about posting the lakes. I don't think it sends hoards heading to the lake either. Nothing secret about these places. I'm more concerned about hunt camp gangs showing up for a couple days at a time and pound the hell out of the lake. I saw that all the time at a camp I used to go to in the Denbigh area. My last time I counted over 50 ATV's in a 5 mile stretch of logging road. Now wonder the lake seemed fished out. I don't go back either.
I think the indiscriminant use of ATV's is the biggest threat there is to backwoods fisheries. On one lake there were a dozen boats with outboards and a whole army of guys from the local camp having a fishing derby. There wasn't a road for miles of that lake but repeated use of ATV's turned foot trails into ATV roads.
I fished Limestone before there were trout stocked in it. It had great fishing for largemouth bass.
I think the indiscriminant use of ATV's is the biggest threat there is to backwoods fisheries. On one lake there were a dozen boats with outboards and a whole army of guys from the local camp having a fishing derby. There wasn't a road for miles of that lake but repeated use of ATV's turned foot trails into ATV roads.
I fished Limestone before there were trout stocked in it. It had great fishing for largemouth bass.
>Ice fishing is totally unsportsmanlike. Good for drinking if that is what >you like to do
Waw!!! That's pretty strong statement! What IS sportmanlike? Dries tied on silkworm gut with a bamboo rod? About 15 million people in North America go ice fishing. Apparantly they are all there just for drinking.
By the way, in years and years of ce fishing I never had a drink on ice. I bet it is true for a lot of people on this board.
To me targeting bass off season is really unsportmanlike. And it seems like MNR shares my opinion on this. Fortunately it is not up to you to decide what does and what does not belong there. Bass was there long before you moved here from BC.
MNR does poison lakes in Ontario before stocking with trout, it is a common practice. Limestone was not poisoned just because it still had some remaining lake trout when they started to stock it with rainbows.
>the more fishermen get skunked, the more likely something will be >done
You wish! There is simply no money for anything more that is already in place. As for getting skunked, in my opinion it has more to do with fishing skills, than with "too much ice fishing" or "bass (pike) ate all the trout". Some guys seem to catch fish where you don't.
Waw!!! That's pretty strong statement! What IS sportmanlike? Dries tied on silkworm gut with a bamboo rod? About 15 million people in North America go ice fishing. Apparantly they are all there just for drinking.
By the way, in years and years of ce fishing I never had a drink on ice. I bet it is true for a lot of people on this board.
To me targeting bass off season is really unsportmanlike. And it seems like MNR shares my opinion on this. Fortunately it is not up to you to decide what does and what does not belong there. Bass was there long before you moved here from BC.
MNR does poison lakes in Ontario before stocking with trout, it is a common practice. Limestone was not poisoned just because it still had some remaining lake trout when they started to stock it with rainbows.
>the more fishermen get skunked, the more likely something will be >done
You wish! There is simply no money for anything more that is already in place. As for getting skunked, in my opinion it has more to do with fishing skills, than with "too much ice fishing" or "bass (pike) ate all the trout". Some guys seem to catch fish where you don't.