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I'm not to far from you, and I started fly fishing the area a couple of summers back. I found the trout fishing in streams and rivers pretty dismal, however the fly fishing for smallmouth bass in the same area is fantastic. I also targeted crappie, pike, and pickerel at all the lock/dam tail races o...

What is the best way to access the small put and take bush lakes in zones 11, 15, 18? I would guess they are intended to be accessed by snowmobile for ice fishing. I would like to try fly fishing these lakes during the open water season.

As I posted previously, I purchased a pontoon float. I used it a couple of times in the spring then put it aside for wading, which was easier this year with the low water. I recently took up floating again after I modified the pontoon. I can see I'm going to get good use out of it. I got rid of the ...

This is the nymph I'm using. Its almost neutral bouyancy, with the bead head and foam body, in slow currents it drifts and rests on the bottom vertically, to imitate the burrowing nymphs.

The may fies are back in the same location. I caught a couple and I think they are late hex or hexagenia atrocaudata. I went on troutnut.com seems thats what they are.
I compared by size and dark edging on both sets of wings.
ps The smallies were hammering a large nymph pattern.

I do a lot of snowshoe hare hunting, actually I spend more time hunting with the beagles than anything else. I've kept a kennel of purebred CKC reg. Beagles for over twenty years, and the pedigree on my hounds goes back over a hundred years, all bred for snowshoe hare hunting. They all carry the ken...

I tried along the parkway for the first time, about 5/6 weeks ago and only caught a few small ones. I was trying to target smallmouth bass,here comes the excuse, I believe the smallies had moved out into deeper water. I couldn't wade or cast out far enough and my intermidiate line wouldn't get deep ...

I did more online snooping. Yeah, seems common or local names are all over the map. You could probably make a case for swicthing the common names on these two. Looking at the Isonychia dun, you can see where they got concept and name for the Leadwing coachman.

A local river also has a heathy population of bass sized stone flies. I found these casings under the bridge.

Stanfields, two piece, long johns.

I was referencing the Otawa Fly Fishers hatch chart they listed the Mahogany Dun as Isonychia and the Big slate drake as Hexigenia Atrocaudata.Here loccally, in the spring there were clouds of the Brown Drakes. The Third evening as the browns were diminishing I saw some sulphers, this past week I sa...

Do you think I can count on this hatch happening again this year, same place, same time? I hoping I can have another crack at them. I'd also like to determine if they are Mahogony duns or big slate drakes.

I normally wear "lanark pajamas" under the waders, I don't like the clamie feeling of waders on bare legs. In no time the weather will be hot and I'll switch to free wading. I would still like to use my wading boots, for the support and traction. Just wondering if there any tricks for fit ...

The crappie bite has started, had to work my way thru about 50 bluegill to get 8 crappie. The top fly, by far, size 10 Beadhead Zug Bug.

Worms for round lake make sense, since those tubes in the bottom at the far end are formed by worms from my understanding (not earthworms but worms). The ice was solid on both lakes, though I know what you mean about little round as there was some open water near the culvert, but after careful test...