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Thursday June 7, 2007My little fishing trip today.
So I went out to my favorite river system to fish this morning. The weather was overcast and the air temperature was 14 celcius when I arrived and 16 celcius when I left. The water remained 16 celcius for the whole trip. I fished from 9:00AM until 12:30PM. I learned a new, possibly usefull technique today. Somehow I managed to hold onto a 8'6" fly rod, a brook trout, and a digital camera while standing in water up to my thighs. I also managed to take pictures while doing it. I have a feeling that the camera won't make it if I keep that up. There was a minor hatch going on but not many fish rising. I am no entymologist at all so I could not tell you what exactly was hatching but there were grey flies and tan flies. I actually managed to get a picture of one of the tan flies. The picture is further down the page. If you know what it is let me know. Nice day all in all. I hooked into three brookies. I landed 2 and one threw the hook as I was brining it in. Other than the fact that I did not get a picture of the fish, I like it when they throw the hook out at the end of a fight. That way I do not have to handle the fish and potentially injure it. Fish are smart. I had to keep changing flies after I caught a fish. It seemd that once you hooked one the fish wouldn't touch the fly. So I caught 3 different fish on 3 different flies. Below are pictures from the trip. I hope you enjoy them.
This was my third brook trout of the morning. It is about 9-10 inches long. I hooked it on a grey bodied Elk Hair Caddis with a deer hair wing. Guess he liked it!
Here's another shot of it.
Isn't that just pretty. Maybe you can catch him next time!
This is the first brook trout I hooked. Man did that fish ever have some spunk. I think it has delusions of being a salmon. He did these acrobatics long enough for me to get out my camera and catch a quick shot of it. I hooked it on a Dark Edson Tiger Zonker Muddler with a gold cone head.
And here is the little fiesty fish. It jumped right up into my hand and posed for a quick picture. Then it told me to get my darn fly out of it's mouth. I obliged and told it I would catch him later. Put him in the water and off he went.
This is a picture along the river I fish. Although it looks like a pond it is just a wide section of the river. It is soo peaceful there. This is just before the start of the section I fished today.
Here's where I started fishing. It is pretty difficult to fish with a fly rod here. Need to roll cast a great deal. Nice scenery though.
This is a picture upstream from the same spot.
And this is where the river flows out into one of the many lakes on this system. This is where I did a majority of the fishing today. Can you spot the holding spots?
This and the following two pictures are some of the flowers blooming on the river's edge.
Blueberry bloomers.
Nice pink brush. Can you guess where I am from?
This is one of the flies that were hatching today. I am told it is a Yellow Midge.
This is the path leading to the point where the river meets Millyard Lake. There is an awful lot of deadfall along the path. Some is normal, some is from logging, while some of it is remnants of a hurricane that blew through here in 2003.
This is a beaver dam built on the shore of an island in the middle of the lake.
This is where the river meets the lake. There can be some mighty fine fishing here.
This is the shore of the lake where I fished from. Take a look at that backpack. Not hard to tell what country I am from.
That is the tip of the island with the beaver dam.
This is where the lake flows back out.
Another shot of the lake.
Through the break in the trees is the outlet to Albert's Bridge..
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