Accessible trout fishing locations for disabled 22 year old? Ottawa area..

[FishingIsHealing]

Hi my name is Tom. I am disabled and have spent 1 month 6 days in the hospital since April 18th. I love to fish and my problem is that I love to fish for trout.

 

I suffered multiple pulmonary embolisms and now I'm left with inflamed lungs that are continuously bleeding over and over. I have had to have my lung cavities drained twice now and the bleeding is not stopping. I am in the worst pain of my life and feel like my lungs have been bruised with a baseball bat!

 

My lungs feel like someone is squeezing them. I don't know if it will ever stop, the bleeding and inflammation are recurrent. I suffer from a bleeding disorder and this complicates the illness because I bleed more than normal people.

 

Fishing is my release. I can't drink beer, I can't party, I can't see my friends, I can't F$#@, I can't drive, I can't even walk around the block. But Fishing, fishing is king and makes me happy and for the time being I almost forget the pain I am in and can relax.

 

I'm wondering if anyone can share some general areas that are within 1 hour of downtown Ottawa which have trout in them. I already know quite a few lakes that have specks and even 1 that has dwarf char, But I can't go out in a boat at the moment due to my health.

 

I need a place where I can just pull up my lawn chair and relax and fish from the chair while my father goes and wades or fishes from shore.

 

I dont' expect you to give me your honey holes, but even a river name or creek name or general area of the creek/river would be appreciated.

 

I dont' keep anything I catch because I don't like the taste of fish, I just go for experience of nature and the rush of hooking a fish.

 

I have only fished twice in the last 8 years because of my health problems. I really would like to have a productive time fishing this weekend.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

 

If there are no ideas, I know my own place that has a natural speckled trout population but I would rather discover something new....

 

Thank you for your help!

 

Fishing is RELIEF!

 

Sincerely,

 

Tom G.

[lunkerbasshunter]

if i knew of any i certainly would give them to you. sorry not from the area but hope you can find what your looking for. all the best with your illness!

 

Cheers!

[lunkerbasshunter]

if i knew of any i certainly would give them to you. sorry not from the area but hope you can find what your looking for. all the best with your illness!

 

Cheers!

[FishingIsHealing]

Thanks for the reply. If you aren't from here yo ucan't really help so it's okay! haha........It's the thought that counts right?

 

Thanks for the support...hopefully I will recover.....Somehow I feel pretty negative about it since it should have stopped by now and the doctors don't know why it is continuing.

 

Anyways, wish you luck with your fishing this year and every year!

 

 

----Tom----

[kentooley]

Hey Tom

 

Hate to say I told ya so :lol: , but I knew it wouldn't take long for someone here to respond.

 

Cheers

 

Chris

[FishingIsHealing]

Haha yes this is a better forum, I like it more. Easier on the eyes.......lol.......

[Marko]

Try looking up some trout farms around Ottawa, they should be easily accessible.

Sorry i cant help out any more.

Not even sure if there are trout in Ottawa River

[FishingIsHealing]

This is a good idea. There is one near my house but it's not challenging enough. I like the challenge of a real stream or river. what I do is I have a really comfortable chair with drink holder and I just get my dad to set it up and I sit there on the banks of the river drinking water and fishing at my own pace....

 

 

There isn't any trout around ottawa on the ontario side. Except for stocked lakes and ponds.

 

But on the Quebec side, there is trout a plenty....you just have to know the areas.

 

I'll probably just end up going to the regular place because I doubt anyoen will tell me the rivers they go to......I might check out a new creek with my dad. It starts with an St and is up near Wakefield/Low Quebec.

 

There may be trout in there but we haven't surveyed it yet. Will let u know if we find anything in there this weekend or if it looks trouty and has cold water........

 

I also know another place up near Kazabazua and near Shawville/campbells bay. But won't tell u where that is

 

Don't want to have everyone going to this place and fishing it out. It's a fragile ecosystem and natural fish live there, not stocked ones so they can't sustain that type of fishing pressure from us....Basically any streams up there with cold water have brookies in them........It's almost guaranteed if the water is cold and there is a current, that therre are trout in the stream/river.

 

All the good trout fishing is in Quebec sadly

[Tinman]

Hey Tom,

 

I know its not the au natural setting, but thistle spring trout farm out near dwyer hill is an alright place to go a wet your line if your looking for some trout.

 

Denis

[cranks bait]

I don't fish for trout except for the may long weekend up at our cottage, because that is all there is.

 

I know there is Lake Trout in Charlston Lake down here in Brockville. Not sure how well you would do from shore though.

[fishnsled]

Welcome aboard!

 

Check this out.Fishing in Ottawa

 

If your in the GTA check this out.

 

Heber Down Conservation Area (Whitby) - Disabled access and fishing platforms are available

along with plenty of streambank fishing along the Lynde Creek. The disabled fishing platforms

are located at the Devil’s Den Pond

 

and this Disabled Hunting and fishing

 

And one more site

 

I hope that these might be of some help to you.

 

[Reef Runner]

I wish I was on near the Ottawa to help you and I don't fish trout. Try some bass and pike, always good fun. Wishing you all the best in fish and health for the near future.

 

reefrunner

[Lefty]

In the middle of June there is fishing festival on the QC side. There is a small stream right in the middle of Gatineau that they stock with trout, Le Ruisseau de Brassiere ( or some thing like that). These fish are usually around for a couple weeks after the festival and many people have been catching these trout recently. If you have a QC license its definitely worth a try as you don't have to travel very far.

Take Booth street heading North and cross the river. hang a left at Laurier and then your first right on Montcalm. Just up from there on your left is a parking, the creek is right beside it.

 

Good luck.

 

L.

[FishingIsHealing]

Thank you EVERYONE for your help! I've found a place where I'm going to go. It's just my regular spot because I haven't been able to locate any other places by tommorow. Thanks for all the information you gave me about disabled fishing and for everyone who sent me private messages suggesting things I could do and for giving me websites that have good information and stuff.

 

 

And to the last poster, I will check that out too!

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE! Thanks LEFTY for the trout festival info, may check that place out on way home tommorow!

 

 

FISHING IS TRULY HEALING...........IT"S THE ONLY THING THAT CAN MAKE ME ENJOY MY LIFE IN THIS CONDITION THAT I AM IN.............FISH FOR LIFE!

 

 

 

I added a picture of a nice big pumpkinseed that I caught in Lac La Vase which is a lake that is basically the northern end of Lac Ste. Marie. There is a beautiful little creek called Heney Creek I think? And I caught this near the opening of it.

 

I released the big pan fish back so it could be caught again! It sure was a "bute" though! haha.......A good looking fish!

 

Don't laugh at my pathetic sunfish! It seemed bigger in real life. hahah it was quite chunky and beautiful.....

Edited June 27, 2008 by FishingIsHealing

[FishingIsHealing]

I have a Quebec and Ontario licence. The Ontario licence is 19$ because I only buy conservation licence since I don't keep what I catch unless it's a trout (which I have never caught). I release everything I catch.

 

The Quebec Licence costs 51$ which is crazy because you don't even get an outdoors card type thing. You just get a little piece of paper which looks like movie ticket paper.

 

For 19$ in Ontario you get the Conservation licence for 1 year and you get an outdoors card which is quite fancy hahah Still waiting for mine in the mail. Yee hee

 

Next i'm gonna get my hunting licence and Firearms Acquisition Licence so me and my dad can hunt Turkey on his property since it's in a rural area, I can just lay down on the lawn and hunt turkey. But the problem is I don't like killing animals so this is probably just a dream haha. But I will shoot targets on his property, won't kill Deer since I like Deer way too much. The deer on his property are pretty friendly actually......they walk right up to you. So we don't like to kill them.

 

 

Tommorrow I'm going to scout some speck/brook trout fishing areas in Quebec up near the town of Luskville and Low. Wish us Luck....I'm really sick and Ihope I won't have any problems tommorow because I'll be 1 hour away from a hospital at least.

 

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED~!

[cranks bait]

Don't laugh at my pathetic sunfish! It seemed bigger in real life. hahah it was quite chunky and beautiful.....

 

The way my season is going, I'd be exstatic to get a sunfish!!! I just wish they would grow to be 7 pound beasts, then there would be a fight on the line.

 

Have fun fishing.

[Reef Runner]

Nice fish. Size of it I would guestimate about 9 or 10 inches. Very respectable sunfish.

[wuchikubo]

Well, wetting a line and catching a sunfish sure beats me and my sitting in the office thinking about fishing!

 

Nice sized pumpkinseed attached to that mepps spinner.

 

Sorry, I couldn't have helped with any info but good luck tomorrow Tom.

[HTHM]

I don't know the area that well, but I seem to recall Ridieu Provincial park has easy access to the water. I doubt that there are trout, but a good bass will get ya goin too.

My wife works with the disabled and could be a good scouce of info is you desire

Welcome to the board!

Edited June 28, 2008 by hometownhandyman

[tip-up]

Hey

 

I am from Ottawa and have got to know many lakes north and south of hear that have brook trout, a lot of them are wild as well.

 

Luskville is a great place to start although you will be mostly fishing small hard to get to creeks and brooks that require stealthy tactics..Maniwaki and Gracefeild have a few lakes that have monster trout. It's all trout country up that way, beautiful.

 

Calabogie and surrounding area has many stocked lakes with brook trout and with a little research you can find a few that can be accessed fairly easy with a raised suspension of coarse and some speck desire. Start by getting a stocking list of the area from the MNR in Kemptville and the Ontario Backroads book for Eastern Ontario and Algonquin Park edition. It's the best way to find new waters just out of the city.

 

 

 

Here are a few trout I caught downtown Hull to give an idea of what your looking at. They stock the creek with rainbow trout, brown and brook trout. I have not had the chance to make it down this year though...

 

 

And a Calabogie speck

 

-Andrew

[ccmtcanada]

I have to agree...fishing is healing.

 

I'm not sick, but nothing relieves stress better for me than heading out after work and wetting a line for a few hours. My wife and I get out about 250 times a year...mostly between the times of 8pm and 10pm. We get skunked a lot, but being out there and casting your line, or bottom fishing waiting for a strike, or float fishing our favourite trib, or heading out on weekends in our boat, it's an amazing stress reliever.

 

Get rid of the stress and the rest of your life just seems to fall in place.

 

I hope that your condition improves so that you can get out to all the places you'd like to. In the meantime, keep hitting your local spots....and ask questions here on the board. We are always more than happy to help out when we can.

 

Good luck!