Joeytier

Awesome trip, glad I convinced you to come out

Definitely!!! As a member of Unifor, I wasn't pleased to see them spending millions on prime time ads endorsing ANY political party, let alone Wynne's liberals, so I'm happy to see that crap get regulated a bit.

Awesome report!!! Tons of big fish and the kids are loving it just as much as you!

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2016/05/17/ontario-liberals-move-on-fundraising-reform-after-toronto-star-probe.html Typical liberal cash cow, eh???

Just like every other politician on the face on the earth, that has to walk on eggshells Everytime they open their mouth. You do realize that, right? Also, do you really think the Ontario liberals are reforming election spending laws to monopolize their leadership? Give me a break. If anything, it will mean unions like the one I belong to will be further restricted as to how they can spend on campaign ads, and how many corporate donations a party can accept during a campaign. Does that really sound unfair to you?

Love the karelian bear dog shot...I gotta get one...

Last two posts nailed it. Specks are hugged up on the shorelines and lakers arent far off.

Yep, that is usually the case, especially on frosty mornings...things are starting to really move now

Ehhh, it all got settled like big boys are supposed to, a nice ending. My 'fly-fishing' pretty well only consists of trolling a full sink 6 wt in the spring for specks/lakers, but I've yet to find a more productive pattern around here than straight black bead-head woolly buggers, usually size 6. I can never seem to get the brookies onto a good streamer bite (the lakers will chomp them though).

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Awesome trip, thanks for the report.

Amazing average size out there, wow. Great fish, guys!

That Blitz EP is killer, classic UK stuff!

If they're already aware of your backgroubd, and are offering the title anyways, you have nothing to worry about.

That's me Tough when all your buddies are 9-5'ers though

Boo-hoo, that's why rain suits and long jons exist! We're looking at subzero nights and rain both days, and I'll be tent-camping fishing for brookies and loving every minute of it (y) Bring some friends and make a good time out of the bad weather

You're likely thinking of colborne right next to it.

She was 22.75" and probably around 4 lbs, you should be able to beat it...

Natural. There was a time when these lakes were hit hard and was likely fished to the point of very little angler return, and once splake became the latest craze for hatcheries in Ontario, these lakes all got stocked with them.

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Put some time in on the water chasing brookies these last 2 days (yes, again)... Snuck out Monday evening after dinner to a big waterbody 30 mins from home with lots of trout and great shore fishing water and was rewarded with two beauty specks in the 16-17 in range...the fish in the video nearly made my heart stop he hit my EGB so friggin hard! http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx70/Placeholder_/Mobile%20Uploads/th_VID_20160509_183324741_zpsqeuga4ct.mp4 Today I met up with a buddy from Mattawa to hit a speck lake thats been stocked with splake over the past few years. The day was extremely slow, water started out in the mid-40s and there was no activity at all until mid-afternoon we started to see water temps up in the 50s in one particular end of the lake, and started to get a few short strikes, then it happened..dont let anyone tell you that trout get sluggish when they old and large, as this was likely the most intense fight of my life, trolling a tiny go-getter in 5 FOW no less! Update: Never had an issue ID'ing splake/specks before, but this ain't no speck. So it's my PB splake instead

Awesome! The big brookies in those streams will typically take over the best pools and kick everyone else out. Something that size likely has fish over 12" in it.

-1 last night and again tonight, doubt I'll see much or any bug life on my camping trip this weekend.

You can check on MNR Fish-Online, that should give you an idea. Also, why don't you just go out and try to find some? The lake itself is not closed and you can't get in trouble for trying to find bluegills if you genuinely believe they're in there.