Congratulations Gord.
Gord Gonie and Mike from Riverside Yamaha
At this Spring Fishing & Boat Show I bumped into Joel Theriault who we had the pleasure of shooting many shows with when we worked with Air Ivanhoe. Joel is a float plane pilot and excellent guide. At the show he told me about the trophy brook trout fishing he has access to with Air Ivanhoe. Here’s his invite,.
“I hope your having a great holiday season. I was thinking about the shows we did a few years back for bass, walleye, and pike … and thought about that invite to do a spring / early summer brook trout and lake trout trip. We never did connect the following year, and I wanted to just let you know the invitation is still there if you’re wanting to return (and most importantly, can find the time).
Ice out brook trout fishing is always a blast, as shown in the attached picture from last spring. At any rate, happy fishing … and keep us in mind if your interested in venturing back into the Foleyet, Ontario neck of the woods.â€
Cheers,
Joel Theriault
800-955-2951
Joel, the offer is too good to refuse! Those brookies are huge!! Paul Lord from our office will be following up with you while I’m filming in India.
Dan Whelpton from Edmonton, Alberta contacted us to tell us about his excellent pike fishing spot. “I have a honey hole of a spot just outside Edmonton Alberta where over this winter I have found big fish. Ice fishing has been the most amazing thing this year and in the past two years and would love to show you what it’s all about. Consistent Pike all day long varying from the 4lbs range up to 20lbs have been landed by me. Tip up action has been the best I’ve ever seen. I’ve been experimenting with different bait and have found these hogs will eat baits up to 1lb. I’m using 10″ herring on a regular basis and go through roughly 20 a day. Easily accessible. Sitting above a drop off that starts at 8 feet and down to 30 feet within about 40 yards with total sand bottom. I’ve sent a couple of photo’s to show you what’s down there, one of me and one of my father. I have a lot more photo’s if you are interested. I have had one fish this year unable to come up an 8″ hole and another that has straightened out a 50lb carbon leader. The best day so far this winter has been 6 pike caught in double digits. Hope to hear from you soon. Picture is one of myself and one of my father.â€
You have my attention Dan. I’ll have Paul Lord from our office follow-up with you.
Out of all the rainbows we caught yesterday only one male had an old lamprey scar on it’s side. Back in the 80′, it was normal for almost all the rainbows we landed to have one or more lamprey scars or “holes” on it. It’s nice to see how well the lamprey controls the MNR have put in place has worked over the years.
We headed out early again this morning and traveled east of Oshawa, ON to check on the Lake Ontario tributary conditions. Most were high and discolored. Visibility was about 3″, but the fish still hit well. We fished fresh, rainbow trout egg spawn-sacks under sensitive floats with 6 lb. test line and between the four of us we landed about 20-fish. Interesting enough, most of the fish we landed were silver female rainbows whereas last Wed., all of the fish we landed were male rainbow trout. Since the water condition were turbid, I continued to use the Gamakatsu #4 Finesse Widegap hooks. Most steelheaders use hook sizes from #8-#12, but I have found that when the water is turbid, the larger-gap hook works much better. I did not loose any fish that I hooked! My line of choice was the Sufix Titanium Plus yellow monofilament line with a 6 lb. test Sufix fluorocarbon leader. That will be all the rainbow trout fishing until the end of April. Time to pack for our northern India filming trip.
To view the MNR Kid’s Fish Art Contest Winners – please follow this link: http://gallery.me.com/jbutterill#100277
Grade 10 to 12 Winner and Overall Winner
Liane Du
Markham, Ontario
Image: Burbot, title “Bottom of the Lake”
Grade 7 to 9 Winner
Bernice Ho
Markham, ON
Image: Burbot, title “The Star of the Showâ€
Grade 4 to 6 Winner
Catherine Chen
Scarborough, ON
Image: Burbot, title “One and Onlyâ€
Well done winners!
Noel Gyger reports. Weather was excellent all week. Lots of sun shine and warmer than average day time temperatures. Guided Fishing started on March 15th on the Kalum River.
The Skeena River is in good shape but full of ice flows and frozen over in spots. Be very careful walking on the ice ledges! There may be some Steelhead wintering over in some locations. The Trout and Dolly Varden Char are available year round.
The Kalum River is in good shape and fishing for Steelhead is excellent.
The Zymoetz (Copper) River is in fair shape and fishing for Steelhead is slow. The upper section closed for fishing on January 1st.
The Lakelse River is in fair shape and fishing for Steelhead and Trout is fair. Lake ice fishing is good. Beware of thin ice!
Kitimat River is iced up and snowed in. This has caused the river to be reduced to narrow channels. Despite these conditions, some anglers still went fishing. The warmer weather will help the situation. Trout fishing this week was excellent.
Douglas Channel; I have not heard anyone fishing the Douglas Channel at all this week but they will be heading out soon with the warmer weather.
Prince Rupert: With the beautiful weather we’re having it looks and sounds like this weekend should see lots of fisherman heading out for some fun on the water. Everybody is getting their boats dusted off and ready for another season. Can’t wait for the fishing reports to start rolling in.
If you would like to book a comfortable, warm Charter Boat for Winter Chinook and Dungeness Crab in Kitimat or Prince Rupert, or you would like to book a guided tributary trip with Noel, you can reach him at, www.noelgyger.ca .
Re: FisherGirl
Hello Paul;
Sorry we were not able to meet! However, we did have the opportunity to meet and chat with Italo and Barb! That I have to say was one of the highlights’ of our day! I’ve attached a picture for you of; my husband (Dale), myself, Italo and Barb. In addition, we mentioned to Italo and Barb that if they are ever down fishing on the Bay of Quitne to let us know. We would love to go fishing them!
Hope all is well and I do hope we get the chance to meet in the not too distant future!
Michelle MacMillan
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