I finally gave up on ice fishing and put the gear away. It was time for some spring run Lake Ontario trout. I went out to Western New York with a couple of my buddies, with Scott playing the role of guide. He sure put us on some fish
. It was also great fishing both weekend days and not seeing just about any other anglers on our water. With the exception of some suckers (catfish bait), all of our fish were released.
The water was awefully clear in the small creeks we were fishing. The fish were very spooky, and holed up under the cutbanks. I found that a light fluorocarbon leader helped a bit, but it made it next to impossible to land anything of decent size with all of the wood cover in the creek we were fishing. Most of my fish came on egg fly patterns.
Here is Ryan hooked up with the biggest fish that we saw on the trip, a VERY large steelhead.
unfortunately for Ryan, the fish beat him in a race downstream.
Here's a neat action sequence with Scottie showing us how to do it. Notice he is wearing shorts and sneakers - no waders. It was only 45 degrees out, folks :blink:
Hooked up and running after it
cutting the fish off, keeping it from breaking the riffle.
beating the chromer down
a fancy looking trout
A few of mine
Dave hooked up on one.
Ryan with a solid fish
I was able to sneak up on a good sized steelhead and get a pic of it holding underwater.
The it saw me and took off upstream
A chunky hen
Ryan with a drop back (spawned out) male that had a nice kype
I even got a brown!
Awesome color on this nice male - compare it to the size 13 wader shoe
It was a great weekend. We all caught fish. I ended up with 9 bows and steelhead total, plus a brown, a northern pike and a couple of suckers.
Next weekend its going to be even more TROUT!
hopefully
