2009 Photos & Commentary

[Driftless]

i like this one.

that ones looks like a brother to this one.

[s t fanatic]

caught on scooby doo rod

[Scudly]

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caught on scooby doo rod

Lucky kid. Show us more Cameron. How about that biggie you got recently?

[terminal tackle]

a few pics from this year

[terminal tackle]

this was one of the two i kept this year(they have to be 22"to keep here)

[tom_w]

I would say that this trout season was good to me.

Indeed. Beautiful pics, man.

[s t fanatic]

my biggest of the year. 22" male.

[tom_w]

IS THAT A BROOK TROUT?

[tom_w]

my biggest of the year. 22" male.

Man, that's a sweet pic....

[so haaad]

Aaron -- Becoming your own fly factory is a huge achievement. Congratulations! Ready to start taking orders yet?

[terminal tackle]

yes it is Tom,it was just over 26"it is my largest to date but unfortunately not my heaviest (I did release it beautiful all the same) caught in the spring on lake Nipigon.Got to love the fall coloured ones though.

till next time... Tim

[terminal tackle]

my biggest of the year. 22" male.

that is a beauty sure would like to catch one some day, i don't think we have any here though, if they are there few and far between.

[Scudly]

Thanks for posting your biggie st fanatic. Love that photo. I think that fish was certainly a highlight of your summer. What time of day? What pound line? How did he fight?

Terminal Tackle those are some incredible brookies. Assume wild versus put and take here in MN lakes? On the North Shore some lake are stocked with splake that I hear can grow large. So how do you catch the big brookies? Assume troll. Do you need downriggers? Need to plan a Canadian vacation next summer...

[tom_w]

it was just over 26"it is my largest to date but unfortunately not my heaviest (I did release it beautiful all the same) caught in the spring on lake Nipigon.

I thought it was some sort of salmon at first before I looked more closely. Geez. Now you gotta get a 15-pounder...

[terminal tackle]

scudly" no need for downriggers,these brookies in the spring are in the shallows(usually troll with one guy on the front casting bring them off the shoreline for the guy in the back)........normally if fish the river, seems to be bigger ones there,more colourful to...........drift fishing (can't tell you all my secrets .LOL going to try to get back into flyfishing next year haven't done it for years.

oh ya i've been meaning to ask someone about gut hooked i've been hearing it lots lately on other posts what does it mean??????????

[tom_w]

Gut hooked is when the fish swallows the hook. I think it loosely includes throat hooking as well. It's more common with live bait fishing.

[terminal tackle]

OK.... tks i thought thats what is was I fish with live bait quite a bit, this does happen but not often when it does i just cut the line with no harm to the fish.

[Scudly]

Terminal tackle what kind of bait do you use? Crawlers, leaches, minnows? Jig, slip bobber, Lindy rig?

It sounds like you don't keep these big brookies, or maybe keep the mortally injured ones? I imagine these are in good numbers or is there commercial harvest? Good reproduction or put and take? I have little knowledge of how fisheries are managed in Canada. Thought Lake of the woods nets on Canadian side comercially?

[terminal tackle]

not to often i keep them (maybe 2 a year)as for the mortally wounded ones you still can't keep them unless they are 22' or greater.As good numbers there are good numbers this is a big body of water (plus the river that is 30+miles long,no commerical harvest on brook trout what so ever.Also this is not a put and take lake all wild trout.(there are some put and take lakes here i fish in the off season,,,these lakes do not close.The regs here are quite stiff....

sorry i can't tell you what i use a true trout fisherman never reveals his secert hope you understand......

[s t fanatic]

sorry i can't tell you what i use a true trout fisherman never reveals his secert hope you understand......

i like the way you think terminal tackle.

as to your question mark i caught it on live bait using 4# berkley trilene XL. 9:15 am. like mentioned on another forum i was on the job when this fish was caught. actually didnt fight like you think he would have thank God. there are quite a few snags in the hole i caught him out of. got his head turned on or shortly after hook set my buddy jumped in and the rest was history. CPR.

[s t fanatic]

46" ontario monster. winisk river system. day one of a five day trip. would love to head back someday after the monster brookies this river also holds. there werent any where we fished.

[Scudly]

st fanatic what did you catch this monster on? What # line? I lost a ~32" female brown on 10lb braided Spider. She is still there. Believe big trout (like northerns) have sharp teeth that can cut line. My braided was pretty fresh.

[tom_w]

s t fanatic:

What the heck is your job?!?!

[s t fanatic]

scudly you need to get rid of the spider wire and go to power pro. with that said periodic checking of the line for frays is VERRY important. northern was caught on 50# power pro i believe 10 or 12 lb. dia., steel leader, gold blade with yellow buck tail.

i run a delivery truck for the family biz. im paid on salary so as long as the work gets done and i dont have to drive way out of the way it doesnt mater.

[roughfish29]

my first trout on the fly (sorry, i didn't know to much about trout-care at the beginning of the year):

and just a pretty rainbow:

i only fished for trout 5 days this year, i caught exactly 20 trout combined on three of those days, 0 on the other 2. 15 of the trout i caught this year were on a fly