navairum

Hey gents,

As the situation would have it I'm going to be driving up to collingwood for a bachelor party friday.  This means I can fish until about 3pm on friday anywhere on the way, or in Collingwood.  I wont have a boat, but I I'll bring the waders.

I'm specifically wondering about any potential Musky.  If anyone would be so kind as to point me in a direction of a lake/river they might be rumoured to inhabit I would be evergreatful.  I'm not so interested in fishing the gbay.   If there's no musky I Imagine I'll have some fun times tossing stuff in the rivers anyways

Tight lines

Short and to the point - Amazing fight, beautiful fish, beautiful day, out of the water for ~25 seconds and released to breed again.  I love these darn fish.

**Was on a huron trib

....but I won't tell you where

So I went sucker fishing today and had some good luck going 4/5.  I tried czech nymphing but had no luck, once I switched to my #6 red/black woolybugger the game was on!

I ended up walking part of the water that I've never gone to before (despite living here a while) and came across a hole that looked beautiful.  I thought to myself 'if this was <insert steel river name> that would be a great run/pool for steelhead' - queue 5 minutes of throwing the bugger, slow stripping.....then WHAM.  My first rainbow on the fly (I assume its not a steelie as its a very, very long distance from any mainbody).

Take a look, released to spawn again (sat in the water while taking the pics, tried avoiding all the rocks!). She looks pretty skinny, wondering if thats from being spawned out - or just not eating alot.

Thoughts?

Regards

Hey fellow fly-ers,

I'm getting ready for a fly fishing derby on Friday at a stocked pond and I was wondering if you had some suggestions for favourite patterns?

The pond is stocked with rainbows (a few different strains apparently) and I've seen a few pics of decent sized fish.

So far I've been tying a variety of buggers and stoneflies, i have a variety of streamers as well.   Do you have any other personal favourites?  I'll be casting from shore FYI

Thanks in advance!

(t minus 11 days to opener)

Got out to a new spot today, and I guess the walk paid off.

Fishing just at sunset and we hooked into 3 eyes, and had one splash right at the shore.  Using 3-4 inch livetarget bluegills.  My PB is the first picture

Both only out of the water for ~20 seconds, and released to breed another day.