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BROOKIES!

Beauty boys :worthy:

That shore lunch looks mighty delicious

 

I might just sneak in this up coming weekend for one of those

Had to settle for some beef bourgignon with the in laws

Thanks for sharing and again great job!!!

Jacques

dont forget the waders jaques...

ill guarantie twice the success rate.

and half the lures cought in the trees...

I am glad you guys are moving on, I was really getting tired of seeing photos of some of the most incredible Brook trout I have ever seen.

thats a great reply right there!

after that youl get sick of the big pike.

then big bass.

then big musky....

but im just getting ahead of myself now!

lets just say the season looks promissing.

.......

i have to say ...

those nature shots are getting to me....

that loon landing on its belly ir a real nice shot....

and the speck on the flotting log.... outstanding work.

yeah i was sick as a dog / and or hog .

but he dragged me up to the lake ...

and then the adrenaline kicked in when i hit the first speck. a nice 1 lbs .

ate that one like there was no tommorow.

that fresh fish gave me the strengh of 10 men and then i hit that beauty.

the colors are this one was OUTSTANDING!

a true quebec red... the type i was looking for.

3.4 lbs on the scale. thats my trout of 2009 right there.

i still cant believe some people claim that this lake is stocked.

LOOK AT IT! HOW CAN IT BE!

i spraise this lake and all the great fortune it brought us!

awesome report.

still ice up in yellow knife!

thats a nice fish congrats!

now thats what i call RECYCLING BAIT!

No problem there .....

 

 

Many fish are released ,, My first reaction was to get the fish in question back in the water and released but unfortunately is was bleeding bad

 

 

Looking back now I could .. :wallbash: :wallbash: for being unprepared..

tell me OH GREAT PREDITOR you are.

how are you supposed to ''get ready''

you knew you were oging to catch a fish that size that day???

what would you have done different?

what do you MEAN '' UNPREPARED''.

to me we were as ready as anyone could have been.

what you mean is.

you shouldnt have left your brain at home befor going fishing that day.

whats the difference between a male and a female speckled trout?

awesome colors on those !

great report! and congrats!

Fish of a life time! great job! keep those reports coming! and if you get a mount done, let us see the results!

no ''IF''

HE MUST.....

put that on the wall....

im willing to pay half of the cost..... knowing i was the guy who drove the boat to this BRUTE!

I dunno, still looks like Paul posing with Stephanies fish to me....

 

 

... we all know that Stephanie is HOT!!!... and Paul is NOT!!!

 

my girl friend is laughing SOOOO hard right now!

love the pictures !

congrats on the openner!

here is a short video of the ''FREAK'' getting netted..... AWESOME job form my cousin BTW!

ever seen a splake with a squaretail???

these are pure specks no dought about it!

0 splake in that lake

MY OH MY.... Whitespinnerbait cuts the report WITHOUT the details..................

we get to the ''PLACE'' in question at very early .... what we dont know is that we need to tow my alum. boat.....

OK we were three guys... my alum..... is NOT light...

+ elec motor + 80 lbs baterries... we had 2.........+ all the usual lugage..............

we get to the fist lake where RYAN got his 4.5.....its all fun in games... i get the first speck...

Whitespinnerbait pulls out a 20 $ MINI SPECK NET.....to net my fish... :?

VERY BAD idea....... my lure get hook into the net and the speck released itsself.... :x twas a nice 2 lbs for sure.....

well lets call it a nice C & R !

get around the lake and i cast near a fallen birch tree..... i had my polarized glass'S X RAY VISION STYLE!

i see 2 speck fighting for my lure....... yet 0 bites... im like ok thats nice....

continue the first round then i get a big hit... well the speck SMASHED my lure i go to set the hook..... pulled the lure out of his mouth....

im like................ :roll:

2 -3 rounds around the lake and its seems like the prime was in the mornning..... we ''heard'' by locals that there was another lake over the mountains.....

OVER... the moutains........

we are like LETS DO IT BABY!!!!

pays of big time as we all know ba hooked into somehting he though didnt exist......

a................... true...............FREAK

funny thing is that befor hitting this fish he said....

''quote'' this erea is the type of structure where a seriouse beast would swim around...... ''unquote''

not a minute later he hits the speck of his life....

well THE OLD MAN deserve this fish ....

i hope that ill be able to work as hard and be as determined as his is at his age.......

congrats paul and i realy hope you decide to put that fish on the wall becasue that fish isnt only HUGE and AWESOME...

but hold a great fishermans story....

24/7

NOTE: couple more pictures of the day

other angle of ryans fish

my quebec red! i like this picture cause of the COLORS!!!

greenish! :

after getting the ''FREAK'' on shore for a foto session... the fish lost weight... its must have spit out at least 10- 12 minnows....

LIVE ones....

and last but not least... you cant argue against ''THE DIGITAL SCALE OF TRUTHFULLNESS''

7.24........................+ a dozen minnows.........7.4!

Heading back to the Lake in question , this weekend ...

 

This time all fish will be released like they should have been in the first place.....

i dought that will happen....

cause im planning on getting another super.

and the next week end after that one another super....

so that makes two specks kept.......sorry

Wayne nailed, they fly 'em in. As far as fin clipping goes they do indeed clip the adipose and even partial clips of the dorsal fin (some do get missed in the process). Changing the fin clip each year allows them to identify when it was stocked, thus allowing growth and health info to be gathered.

 

Specks can under ideal conditions spawn in upwelling springs as long as they can expose clean gravel that doesn't silt over before the eggs hatch. A friend has a cottage on a spring lake where I've wittnessed this many times. The trout will expose clean gravel on the lake bed where springs well up. Mind you these are wild specks and this trait is inherit, stockers may not do well in this type of situation.

 

As far as splake or brookie? Even to the trained eye it can be difficult. Check these links.

 

http://www.couplesresort.ca/Attractions/Ar...ish/Splake.html

 

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/LetsF...age/200080.html

 

The thing to do would be to contact the local MNR and request stocking information on the lake, they will give it to you.

 

I will say it again though, they are all magnificent fish.

thanx alot spiel....

never seen any other fins clipped on any other specks we have caught tho...

but ill keep a closer look .

future hog hunter ...

I can tell you what I know from my experience.

 

A few years back I heard rumours of a small lake with huge brookies in the Elk Lake region of northern ontario.

 

Apparantly it was a lake that the mnr stocked and used to entertain certain privelaged bigwigs.

They even built a cabin on the lake to house there guests.

 

I was told that they'd stopped stocking the lake years ago, tore down the cabin and that there was a remnant population of few but usually large fish.

 

Of course I had to investigate.

 

With extreme difficulty I bushwhacked in with camping gear and canoe and the stories turned out to be true.

I camped at the site of the old cabin and caught a dozen or so fish between 4 and 6lbs. Had one on that still haunts me to this day, I figure that fish was 8 plus.

 

Anyhow, most stocked lakes aren't able to sustain populations of fish when stocking has ended. Without upwelling springs they're simply not able to.

 

Some stocked lakes like the one I fished have a marginal ability to reproduce. Because the reproduction is so limited the few that do hatch and survive usually grow to enormous sizes. They just don't have the competition for food.

this makes perfect sense to me....

this lake we are fishing is spring fed...... TONS of minnows may flies....salamander ext....

no wonder...

ITS ALL CLEAR NOW!

thanx

Kev, what was the length and girth of this monster??

no tape...... but unlike you guys we had a scale!

how much did your weight???

would a stocked trout lake..... with time... be able to reproduce ???

cause if this lake IS stocked....... they seem to be reproducing....

iv been there 3 years now and i never saw no one stocking this lake.

whens the best time to stock a lake???

not in the middle of summer i supose. with the hot water and all.................................

i realy want to know .

any trout biologist other than whitespinnerbait on this forum???

I'm still gunning for a speck of that stature, man they are all beauties!

 

I did note however that your cousins fish (perhaps all of them) are from stock as seen in the absence of an adipose fin.

spiel.... finaly someone with a brain.......

please teach me man...

yes my small trout and my cousins trout were missing the back fin on its back...... does this mean there stocked??

if so how can this be??

that lake cant be accessed buy a stocking truck or whatever.....

or am i stupid again.... whats the process with stocking a trout lake.......

some people say that there are splakes in there.......

here is an example.... i caught this beast last year... i thought it was a speck but some guys are telling me that its a splake.....

all i want to know is the truth.....

IS THIS LAKE A NATIVE OR STOCKED????????????????

not that it makes any difference but i might be wrong !!!

That is one sweeet speck!!

 

Looks like that lake has all the right stuff.. Veux-tu ben me dire comment y'a fait pour la rentrer?!!

 

Right on boys. Congrats to you both!

 

HD

listen this speck was HOOKED man . it smashed the lure so hard that i felt the vibration on my TOES!

my cousin brought it in with ALOT of sifficulties in the way .... if this trout had been barely hooked ... it would have been a goner.....................................

but luckely or skillfully.... it was double hooked right in the solid part in the corner mouth.

BTW whitespinnerbait.... befor TELLING us weather we can keep or not keep a fish.... try catching your own....

then YOU can decide with YOUR own fish what you can do with it.

other than that that speck was a fish of a life time and a FEAST OF A LIFE TIME!

so BUCK UP!

GOT GIRTH???????????????????

Great report and pics Kevin

 

Congratulations to Ryan for beaching that monster

That is the biggest speck I've ever seen

 

Great job you guys!!!

Thanks for sharing

Jacques

YOUR TELLING ME??????????????????

btw i lost 3 mepps and 1 small ''o''