Weekend passing

[FrankTheRabbit]

Started Friday with good intentions. Woke up early to fish a few hours and then head into work...That didn't quite happen.

Went out to Duffins for a few hours and it was tough fishing. I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but the waters were dark and stained and it was blowing like a mofo. Upon leaving, I decided to take the rest of the day off and head out to Wilmot. That would be the only place that I landed a fish. It wasn't very big...perhaps a 3 pounder, but better to have caught something than nothing.

After that, went up north to visit the g/f's family. I really do enjoy being up there more and more, especially now that I've been introduced to trout & salmon fishing.

My friend landed two big ones (a five pounder and a 4 pounder). We ate the bigger trout that night, which was enough to feed five people! Fish really do taste better up there. I ended up getting skunked on Saturday.

Next day, started around 8am and took a few places to finally land one! This was such a beauty that I just had to release it. It was too pretty to keep. It looks a bit prego too, so I hope it will have a happy spawning life.

It wasn't a very hard fighter and come to think of it, my friend's catches weren't fighting either. And would you call this a rainbow or a steelhead?

I'm still new to this centre-pin action and I had a lot of difficulties in trying to cast far. I've been using the wallis cast, but I could only manage about a 20ft cast. I saw some guys that were able to hit 50ft, with ease.

What's the secret?

 

[float^drifter]

U just gotta practice, and see how they do it.. I think bigger floats help cus u can put more weight on it and chuck it further. Have u tried side cast yet i use that almost 95% of my time, very easy if u just got into pin fishing. And very nice fish :wink:

Here try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT9AZWYRVUM

 

[FrankTheRabbit]

Woo! SWEET! Thanks Float, I will definitely check that out over lunch!

 

[princesstoadstool]

how big is that bow? doesn't look very big.

 

[FrankTheRabbit]

Is there a way to visually determine the difference between a rainbow and a steelhead?

Some are easy to tell, like this one:

But what about trout that are caught that look like mine?

I realize that trout that migrate back to the lake/sea are steelhead and ones that stay in the rivers/creeks are rainbows. How would we know which ones are which? Is it a size thing?

 

[getin]

Is there a way to visually determine the difference between a rainbow and a steelhead?

Some are easy to tell, like this one:

But what about trout that are caught that look like mine?

I realize that trout that migrate back to the lake/sea are steelhead and ones that stay in the rivers/creeks are rainbows. How would we know which ones are which? Is it a size thing?

The inland trouts are smaller, more colorful and tastier (IMO) than the lake trout (aka steelhead). You can see the inland bows in the stores, they are tiny compared to lake ones, also have more spots on them

 

[troutchaser]

Nice fish Rabbit, beautiful colours!

As for float, thanks for the vid! Very helpful