Allright here it is, On the opener before I ended up at another lake, I decided to fish Scully, now first off scully is stocked with a NIpigon/Hills lake Brook trout strain, which means they grow big fast, but have a life span of about 5 years. Mid winter last year I caught several good sized trout( 18 to 20 inches) and missed several other bigger fish. On the opener there were over 40 people fishing this lake, between 8-1:00pm not one person had iced a trout
I find this quite odd, I think u can rule out the Smallies gorging on them
As I said these trout GOT big fast, way bigger than the average smallie in there. They also feed on zooplankton in the summer which pushes them deep away from the bass, and then they do a switch in the winter. The only thing that makes sense is some sort of oxygen level depletion, how I don't know, I spoke with a lad the other day who said he fished it last ice, last year and they were finding dead trout on the bottom
But I did catch a 19" male at ice out so who knows, but trust me even though this is an easy access lake, it does not get fished that hard. I can say that I haven't given up on the lake yet, the ministry did stock 2000 this spring, and I still believe there are some hearty 5 pounders swimmin around, they're just bein fussy
Akira sorry bud, I should have told u to avoid Scully for your first ice fishing trip
If anyone gets into any let us know.
Cheers,
Rich
I guess the upside is, the other groups there caught nothing too. Maybe just an unlucky day.
(the road seemed to have soften up on the way out)
. Don't worry bud you'll get into some trout yet.