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Fall Brook Trout

Clive Mathias — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:51:13 +0000

I headed out to one of my favorite bass spots yesterday evening with my son and a couple of friends. We arrived at Long Lake (just outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia) about one hour before sunset, which has always been prime-time for bass this summer, but this time things were very different. Instead of the usual bass, we found ourselves hooking into trout. The first was caught on a number five Mepps Black Fury, which needless to say, cause some pretty severe damage to this beautiful fish so she was kept for the frying pan. We all started using smaller spinnerbaits and hooked into a few more but only landed one more.

As you can see from the photos, the two trout had very different colouration.

I’m Ready For My Close-up

Clive Mathias — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:28:42 +0000

I’ve been fishing as much as possible this year, generally 4-5 times a week. I’ve been rotating between different lakes, rods, reels, lures and fish. I mostly target bass on my baitcaster but switch it up to spinning and fly-fishing on occasion for trout. I’ve done quite well so far this season, catching and photographing some beautiful little fish. I miss catching big fish, but there is really something special about these colourful little brook tout.

I’m amazed how different they look despite being the same species.

I also have been getting into some chain pickerel recently on small spinner biats. They are very similar to pike, but rarely get over 30 inches around here.