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About 2-3 weeks ago, while fishing at one of the markham ponds, a friendly local walked up to me and started up a conversation. Friendly guy, he mentioned that he was a fishermen from the islands (Trinidad & Tabago) and was talking it up about the fishing down there. Out of nowhere he mentions he used to go fishing a LOT downtown at the toronto islands & harbour 5-10 years ago when the piking was excellent (not as pressured back then), and he said white spinnersbaits or inline spinners were key for catching lots of pike. After that and he started talking about this stream that's right by his work that he would fish during lunch sometimes, he encouraged me to go check it out. So being the curious person that I am, while driving through Woodbridge after a short visit to another local pond, I told my buddy to stop off at this area on Pinevalley rd. above Rutherford. There was also this smaller trib stream that we found first, so we checked it, right-off the bat when we started exploring the stream, we found a ton of trees that were cut down by beavers.. we then realized the stream was completely screwed up, the beavers made a beaver dam that warmed up the stream, no fish whatsoever, so quickly we got back in the car and moved more south towards rutherford just a little west of PineValley rd. and parked at the park gate beside the bridge.
When we pulled over at this park gate, I noticed a small sign on the bridge saying this stream was the "East Humber River", no wonder why he
was catching fish there, or in his words "brookies", still a little skeptical I walked down to the stream to check it out. It looked nice, but I didn't see any fish though.. so regardless I got my friend to park his car & come down. I wasn't completely discouraged, one of my neighbors that used to be avid-trout fishermen, taught me a few things about brookies or trout in general and that they love to hide in sunken wood, overhanging grasses on the sides of streams, and generally shady areas by fast/slow current & pools. So I tried doing exactly that, walked down the path a bit, found a pool where it goes from 1/2ft.-5ft. of water and there were some nice ripples above that. Got rigged up (went ultralight), put on my pant-waders, and tied one of my very small classic panther spinners that I bought for panfish & brookies (gold/black/yellow pattern), not the larger rainbow trout orange patterns. Started casting out (while upstream) into the deeper water (got a lot of bites from smaller fish) I think they were suckers, then I actually started catching a few of them, very soft little fishes, and then I tried casting the spinner beside me into the stream letting the spinner drift into the current and start spinning downstream and also casting into deeper water then working it through sunken woods into shallow fast current. Then out of nowhere, WHAM, i just see this silver flash just smash it underwater, right in front of me lol in the fast-water. Couldn't believe it, neither could my friend, but the unthinkable happened, the fish started wrapping itself around this big piece of dead wood that looked like a piece of a dead tree that fell in from a storm, wasn't even sure if I still had it on. Once I realized that it was completely stuck, my buddy encouraged me to go after it.. the water looked a bit deep, and I was only wearing pant-waders not overalls, but I wanted this fish bad..
so i went for it anyways. When i waded into the deeper-water (up to my waist), i tried lifting the wood but it was just stuck in place, I could move it up & down and see the silver flash of the fish, I quickly tried unwrapping the line, but that wasn't working and the bark of the tree was keeping the line wrappping under-water.. I needed to do something quick, so I decided to wrap some of the line around my hand, and snap my line-off from the bait & fish. It worked, and then i quickly went over to shore to dehook it & take a couple quick pics, realized it wasn't even a brookie but small rainbow, then I quickly placed it in the water facing upstream into the current, and swam off for another day.
heres a larger 2nd quick pic:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1405/809 ... a155_o.jpg
Shortly after we were visited by some beavers, they were enjoying themselves in that deep-pool right below where we were fishing !! I'm not sure if they were going after the fish, but they probably scared off the trout lol.. And they must've been the culprits that ruined that tiny stream !! lol. darn beavers, they were trying sneak by my friend lmao It was still fun watching them swim.
1 quick vid, low-memory (still have to get a 2 gig memory card):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtCI_uaf0A
When we pulled over at this park gate, I noticed a small sign on the bridge saying this stream was the "East Humber River", no wonder why he
was catching fish there, or in his words "brookies", still a little skeptical I walked down to the stream to check it out. It looked nice, but I didn't see any fish though.. so regardless I got my friend to park his car & come down. I wasn't completely discouraged, one of my neighbors that used to be avid-trout fishermen, taught me a few things about brookies or trout in general and that they love to hide in sunken wood, overhanging grasses on the sides of streams, and generally shady areas by fast/slow current & pools. So I tried doing exactly that, walked down the path a bit, found a pool where it goes from 1/2ft.-5ft. of water and there were some nice ripples above that. Got rigged up (went ultralight), put on my pant-waders, and tied one of my very small classic panther spinners that I bought for panfish & brookies (gold/black/yellow pattern), not the larger rainbow trout orange patterns. Started casting out (while upstream) into the deeper water (got a lot of bites from smaller fish) I think they were suckers, then I actually started catching a few of them, very soft little fishes, and then I tried casting the spinner beside me into the stream letting the spinner drift into the current and start spinning downstream and also casting into deeper water then working it through sunken woods into shallow fast current. Then out of nowhere, WHAM, i just see this silver flash just smash it underwater, right in front of me lol in the fast-water. Couldn't believe it, neither could my friend, but the unthinkable happened, the fish started wrapping itself around this big piece of dead wood that looked like a piece of a dead tree that fell in from a storm, wasn't even sure if I still had it on. Once I realized that it was completely stuck, my buddy encouraged me to go after it.. the water looked a bit deep, and I was only wearing pant-waders not overalls, but I wanted this fish bad..
so i went for it anyways. When i waded into the deeper-water (up to my waist), i tried lifting the wood but it was just stuck in place, I could move it up & down and see the silver flash of the fish, I quickly tried unwrapping the line, but that wasn't working and the bark of the tree was keeping the line wrappping under-water.. I needed to do something quick, so I decided to wrap some of the line around my hand, and snap my line-off from the bait & fish. It worked, and then i quickly went over to shore to dehook it & take a couple quick pics, realized it wasn't even a brookie but small rainbow, then I quickly placed it in the water facing upstream into the current, and swam off for another day.
heres a larger 2nd quick pic:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1405/809 ... a155_o.jpg
Shortly after we were visited by some beavers, they were enjoying themselves in that deep-pool right below where we were fishing !!
I'm not sure if they were going after the fish, but they probably scared off the trout lol.. And they must've been the culprits that ruined that tiny stream !! lol. darn beavers, they were trying sneak by my friend lmao It was still fun watching them swim.
1 quick vid, low-memory (still have to get a 2 gig memory card):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtCI_uaf0A
