So hit up two places last weekend -
Weather: overcast, with a slight southern wind
Water condition: clear, fairly fast current, away from still water
Bait: silver or green 1/32nd jig with a 2" smelt minnow immitation. 1/8th jig with a watermelon 3" minnow immitation
Rod: 10,6" streamside + a really shitty reel that went back to the manufacturer within 30 days of use.
Rig: size 7.0 drennan orange float, fixed, 6# test line
Approach: since I had no idea what to do, I literally walked into an area made casts perpendicular to the current and let the float run while keeping the slack to a minimum. The slim floats are perfect for that in my opinion. I would let the float drift 50 - 100 feet away and the I would pull it back in. Bites came in all stages of a cast - a few on the drift's end, some on the initial bait sinking and one even hit while I was simply wading through the water with the bait submerged. I only realized I had a fish on as it started to pull my rod.
The net result was that I caught 6 smallies and what looked like a trout, but I could not bring it in before it came off the hook. All in all, it was pretty succesfull for a first attempt river fishing.
I only took two pictures as I really didn't care to pull out the camera from the wader's pocket and have to take out of the waterproof bag each time. Anyway, I think I will be hitting up the rivers more often and have googlemap-sluethed two other possible places for the next trip.
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- A Halton Conservation lake that never dissapoints for awesome largemouth action
- Grand River, in and south of Brantford
Weather: overcast, with a slight southern wind
Water condition: clear, fairly fast current, away from still water
Bait: silver or green 1/32nd jig with a 2" smelt minnow immitation. 1/8th jig with a watermelon 3" minnow immitation
Rod: 10,6" streamside + a really shitty reel that went back to the manufacturer within 30 days of use.
Rig: size 7.0 drennan orange float, fixed, 6# test line
Approach: since I had no idea what to do, I literally walked into an area made casts perpendicular to the current and let the float run while keeping the slack to a minimum. The slim floats are perfect for that in my opinion. I would let the float drift 50 - 100 feet away and the I would pull it back in. Bites came in all stages of a cast - a few on the drift's end, some on the initial bait sinking and one even hit while I was simply wading through the water with the bait submerged. I only realized I had a fish on as it started to pull my rod.
The net result was that I caught 6 smallies and what looked like a trout, but I could not bring it in before it came off the hook. All in all, it was pretty succesfull for a first attempt river fishing.
I only took two pictures as I really didn't care to pull out the camera from the wader's pocket and have to take out of the waterproof bag each time. Anyway, I think I will be hitting up the rivers more often and have googlemap-sluethed two other possible places for the next trip.
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