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slop wrote: ....hopefully not the green storage bin I had up for sale in the classifieds that Troutnmuskiehunter bought!..
Naw....I just finished modifying it with a drain plug and a hole on top for my aerator.....I'm now ready with my Muskie livewell for when the season starts!!
katch moore wrote:i've read articles in the citizen that there are musky swimming in there, i think they tagged 9 musky's 8 are still transmitting a signal today.
in the canal!! pretty cool!!
I think I read the same article.
Something like 10 tagged, 1 died, 1 lost communication and 8 still transmitting. However they did say the batteries in the transmitors are near end of life.
There is a telemetry study on the muskies in the canal. Check out the MCI website go to Ottawa Chapter's page for more info. One of the muskies left the canal through a lock. Goes to show fish come and go from the canal.
I fished there today, for carp. Got One. The interesting thing was the muskies cruising the shallows and the bass gaurding their nests. A muskie would swim by and the largie would chase them off. Pretty cool!!
Why wouldn't the canal have muskies in it?...it is the Rideau River!
Many years ago I caught lots of quality fish in Dow's Lake...including muskies to 43 inches...
As far as it being dirty....I don't find it any dirtier than the main river....it's just cut weed from the boats...at least it doesnt get millions of litres of sewage pumped into it....
Yup...another 39 million litres of raw sewage a few days ago...read it in the Sun...Said they are getting closer to fixing the problem and it should be fixed in a few months
In a few months you say?! That should allow this season's catch to be well ingested with crap and condomes as per usual! One positive aspect - puts more fish back in the river 'cause nobody will eat them after listening to the news.
I would suggest that the fish population will sometime soon go back up as those that are keeping everything they catch out of Dows should soon die off. I would have to think that the amount of filth in there is ridiculous!! With its location in the middle of the city, dead bodies, dirty needles, left over garbage from the winter.....gross. You would have to be pretty resilient not to pick something up from eating fish out of there on a regular basis.
p.s. you guys are lucky they are only bringing buckets....here I see people filling HUGE coolers full of whatever bites a hook.
Relic wrote:The interesting thing was the muskies cruising the shallows and the bass gaurding their nests. A muskie would swim by and the largie would chase them off. Pretty cool!!
That is pretty cool! Where were you fishing Relic? If you're there again, I'll try to drop by and say hello (and do some fish watching!).
Pints - if/when you're at DL, put up a post. I still live in the area (bought a place towards the north end of Preston).
Hi Folks - Our lab has been doing work in Dow's for three years. Several folks have summarize the take home message of the musky telemetry work (MCI collaboration). Ten fish were tagged - 8 are still swimming around - 1 moved upstream - 1 died in a winterkill event in spring 2008. An undergraduate student in our lab just wrote up the paper and we are preparing it for submission to a peer reviewed journal. I will share with the Fish-Hawk group when it is ready.
Back in 2006 our lab was "hired" to evaluate the fish community in Dow's Lake as part of the failed light rail train project. We did weekly snorkeling transects, lots of seining, interviewed anglers, and looked for evidence of reproduction. We found a bunch of smallmouth and largemouth nests as well as a few big bluegill colonies. Not suprisingly, this reach of the canal is a centrarchid (sunfish) dominated assemblage. We didn't find anything too exciting or odd (no threatened fish).
In 2007/2008 our lab hosted a student (Tobias Rapp) from Germany. He came to Dow's to study carp catch-and-release. Tobi put radio tags on 60 carp. After three months of tracking all fish were alive and explored the entire reach of the canal.
This is purely anecdotal (determining fish population size is a government activity and doesn't really constitute research so we don't tend to do that type of work), but our observations suggest that there is nothing particularly unique about Dow's other than we are darn lucky to have this resource in the heart of our city. Urban fisheries are critical for engaging youth and recruiting new anglers. I use Dow's as a teaching tool (I take my 4th year fish biology class fishing and we compare hook types to think about bycatch issues).
SJC
S. Cooke
Professor
Biology and Environmental Science
Carleton University
scooke wrote:Hi Folks - Our lab has been doing work in Dow's for three years. Several folks have summarize the take home message of the musky telemetry work (MCI collaboration). Ten fish were tagged - 8 are still swimming around - 1 moved upstream - 1 died in a winterkill event in spring 2008. An undergraduate student in our lab just wrote up the paper and we are preparing it for submission to a peer reviewed journal. I will share with the Fish-Hawk group when it is ready.
Back in 2006 our lab was "hired" to evaluate the fish community in Dow's Lake as part of the failed light rail train project. We did weekly snorkeling transects, lots of seining, interviewed anglers, and looked for evidence of reproduction. We found a bunch of smallmouth and largemouth nests as well as a few big bluegill colonies. Not suprisingly, this reach of the canal is a centrarchid (sunfish) dominated assemblage. We didn't find anything too exciting or odd (no threatened fish).
In 2007/2008 our lab hosted a student (Tobias Rapp) from Germany. He came to Dow's to study carp catch-and-release. Tobi put radio tags on 60 carp. After three months of tracking all fish were alive and explored the entire reach of the canal.
This is purely anecdotal (determining fish population size is a government activity and doesn't really constitute research so we don't tend to do that type of work), but our observations suggest that there is nothing particularly unique about Dow's other than we are darn lucky to have this resource in the heart of our city. Urban fisheries are critical for engaging youth and recruiting new anglers. I use Dow's as a teaching tool (I take my 4th year fish biology class fishing and we compare hook types to think about bycatch issues).
SJC
That has to be one of the most interesting posts I've read on here in a while.
I should have gone to Carleton. Could have been fishing as a class rather than instead of class, as I'd do all too often during my undergrad.
Germans traveling to Ottawa to study carp in the Rideau Canal!! Awesome! Who'd have thought!
Where were you fishing Relic? If you're there again, I'll try to drop by and say hello (and do some fish watching!).
