what might swim in the clyde river?

Post by **charbyc** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:30 pm

lookin at buying a place with river frontage on the clyde just wondering if anyone has a handle on what might be in there......

Cheers lads!

Post by **crankbait58** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:25 pm

Judging from the posts I've seen, I would address that question in a pm to Todd B. the site moderator who seems to have caught most of the species in there on a fly rod!

Post by **katch moore** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:43 pm

i've heard there is everything in that river. Bass, walleye, pike, even heard rumors of trout!

a bunch of people here have fished that river and can help you out.

Post by **katch moore** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:43 pm

i've heard there is everything in that river. Bass, walleye, pike, even heard rumors of trout!

a bunch of people here have fished that river and can help you out.

Post by **Sportspal** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:31 pm

Sections of the clyde that flow through Lanark are stocked with Brookies.
The Clyde headpond, which flows to Flower Round, to Widow lake, to Joe's lake and onward once becoming the Clyde river has Largies, Smallies, Walleye, and Pike that I've caught. I've heard rumours of Muskie too.
Its a beauty of a river system.

Post by **Todd B.** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:29 pm

The MNR (Kemptville) still stocks a few browns somewhere in the upper portion of the Clyde. The used to stock rainbows as well but stopped after 2006. Brookies are stocked in one of the feeder creeks. Getting your hands on a copy of the Kemptville stocking list would help somewhat.

I would say that the Clyde east of Hwy 511 is strickly a warm water fishery.

Personally I wouldn't purchase land on the assumption that there is lots of trout fishing available on the Clyde. I'm sure if you ask the guys that have fished it, they've had to really work for the few that they do manage to find/catch.

Post by **charbyc** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:46 am

im not purchasing the land for the fishing lol!

we want to acreage and the rural address almontes turning into little barrhaven!!!!

thanks guys i was just curious what might be in there as ive never had water in my back yard!!! still a bit of a bonus though!

Cheers lads!

Post by **Jimmy_1** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:22 am

I agree Chris....hence why we're moving out further....Carleton Place=Kanate Lite.....*VOMIT*

(No offence to peole in Kanata....cities ain't my scene)

Post by **almontefisher** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:29 am

charbyc wrote:im not purchasing the land for the fishing lol!

we want to acreage and the rural address almontes turning into little barrhaven!!!!

thanks guys i was just curious what might be in there as ive never had water in my back yard!!! still a bit of a bonus though!

Cheers lads!

Easy on the Barrhaven quote...that is still my little gem of a town and it will not grow rapidly for another 15yrs at least. When I moved there in 79 there was 2200 people and in 2009 there is 4600...not really a boom I would say. Now they are starting to develope the place a bit but their mandate is to keep the town small and friendly.

Don't worry Chris still lots of small town left...

But you can never go wrong living in the country.

If that is the same land I looked at it is not to bad but water levels get lower in that stretch.

Post by **charbyc** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:24 am

im not trying to bash Almonte and i have been there ten years but i honestly find myself starting to notice it heading down hill.....

the traffic in the town is wild, the expansion at the edge of town is frightful to say the least. the downtown core is dying from businessess moving, its just not the town i origionally moved to.

it is friendly but not as much as it was before theres alot of city folks moving in bringing their city attitudes, its losing its small farm town feel and the crunchers seem to be prevailing over common sense..... throw in a few corrupt good ole boys on town council and you got yourself the beginning of the end for that great place.

its too bad i really loved that town it felt like the way my home town was when i was a kid.....

my truck gets broken into in my driveway at least once a year now, usually more..... its just not the same place.

please dont take offense to this these are just my observations.

my wife and i just wanna get back to the country and raise our kids how we were raised.

Cheers lads

Post by **almontefisher** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:04 pm

Hey Chris...Nah I was just joking...I have noticed a little change in life there as well. My parents live up near the hospital and have been there the whole time. They just started building behind them

Their vehicle was broken into 2 times in the last 2 years as well...12 yr old kids bored.

Good luck with the search and there was some land on the Miss River near Blakeney a little while ago.

Post by **alctel** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:47 pm

Jamsers wrote:I agree Chris....hence why we're moving out further....Carleton Place=Kanate Lite.....*VOMIT*

(No offence to peole in Kanata....cities ain't my scene)

Kanata isn't a city, its more like someone tarmaced a bunch of landscape and built a bunch of suburbs on there

Post by **Canmoore** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:49 pm

The Clyde river? Honestly, I have only really fished the Clyde from the dam in Lanark to the Clydesville bridge.

However, let me tell you. BIG BASS!! I have caught some very very large bass at the bridge in Clydesville. I have caught some nice sized walleye at the Dam in Lanark.

My grandfather told me once, back in the '70s he caught 5 Bass from 4-6 pounds at the bridge in Clydesville. He would use a leapord frog under a large bobber.

While I would discourage the use of wild frogs, the bass do hit on topwater, jigs, and minnow crankbaits.

I do know that there are small trout in the creek that crosses C.R.12 between Lanark and McDonalds Corners.

As for the land, it is nice. However, if I was the one purchasing land, it would be on Dalhousie Lake or one of the other lakes of the highlands. Such a beutiful area.