Big Haliburton Speckled Trout!!

[Slayingm]

Had fun this weekend and took a break for the normal Walleye, Bass and Musky charters. Enjoyed a couple of quiet days on some small back lakes near my property in Haliburton for some Rainbow and Specs. Usually I find the fishing for Brookies tough this time of year and after trying gang-trolls with a worm tipped fly and various small spinners I came up empty. That is when I switched over to the simplest type of fishing and slowed down using a slip bobber and worm!! I fished the presentation off some rocky points and adjusted the depth of the worm so that it was approx. 15ft down. On my second cast I landed a huge 4lb Spec that ripped line away like a Pike when I set the hook on my Ultralight! The switch over to the float and worm allowed me to boat 7 specs yesterday including 2 over 3lbs. It was a good reminder to me that sometimes the simplest presentation can be the most effective as evidenced by these beauties!


Be safe and Good Fish'n... Greg.

[Chevy Champagne]

Awesome fish!
Ya got me thinking....it's getting close to that time

[SeaMonster]

Some fat beauties you got into there.
Nice job!

[bobfly]

You a very lucky guy to have small lakes near your property that have fish like that in them! Nice to hear that trout that size are that shallow this time of year. Did you happen to take a surface temperature?

[Walleye'm Fishing]

Great looking giant specks right there. When it comes to brookies, specifically very large ones in small water bodies, worms are most definitely the way to go.

[FlyMaker]

Wicked!!!

[rex.stpierre]

I'm not a fan of still fishing, but you got your worm down there and got it done.

Way to make the right adjustments and great pictures of those beautiful bookies!

[Slayingm]

You a very lucky guy to have small lakes near your property that have fish like that in them! Nice to hear that trout that size are that shallow this time of year. Did you happen to take a surface temperature?

Hi Bobfly, I did take the surface temp which was 73'.... but much colder 15ft down where the bait was!

[bobfly]

thanks Slayingm............usually small shallow lakes (25-30ft) don't have a thermocline with the result that almost the entire water column is the same temperature except right at the bottom where the springs are. I was at a small private Quebec lake (elev 1000ft higher than Ottawa) on Friday and the ST was 74F. Only small trout were active. I was able to get a temp down 10ft and it was the same. You have a great situation there with colder water only 15 ft down.

[Dcaster]

Some real nice fish there, thanks for sharing.