New to Ottawa

[NovaScotiaPat]

Hi all,

Hope you are keeping your lines tight! I am new to Ottawa and it appears there aren't that many small streams for fishing trout like there is down home. I spent a few years in London and had lots of fun on the Grand River and Whitman's Creek near Paris Ontario. I would appreciate any help as to where I might go within an hour or two of Ottawa.Thanks!

[FLOATFISHIN]

Welcome to town Pat,

For trout.......................... Not really round here budd, fly fishin and floatin for smallies is great, but lil streams for trout...... not really.

Send me a pm, and I'll try to put you onto a few area's.

Do you fly or Floatfish em?

T.L F.F

[beachburger]

Welcome to Ottawa.

I think you'll find most people that hang around here head to the Salmon or Chateauguay Rivers in New York to fish trout. It's about a two hour trip from Ottawa to Malone N.Y.

You will find no shortage of smallies wading in the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers. If you have boat/yak/canoe/float tube/....., dig out the 8wt to pull those largies and big early season pike out of the weeds.

[joco]

welcome to the site..


Ok if you want trout and like you said up to 2 hour off drive.

there a cople parc on the quesc side that have some great trout fisheries.

and there a cople off outfiter here in the region below 2 hour off drive..that have real realy good trout population...but this is on the quebec side,.


joco.

[Salar]

As Beachburger said, New York is your best bet for trout in small streams and rivers. Around Malone there are quite a few options: Chateaugay River, Salmon River, Marble River, Trout River, Little Trout River, Little Salmon River, North Branch Great Chazy River. All are stocked with either brook trout, rainbow trout or brown trout.

Here's a link to the public fishing rights maps for that region:

<a href="http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/32610.htm ... 10.html</a>

Here's a link to the stocking lists for that region:

<a href="http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/23260.htm ... 60.html</a>


Send me a PM if you're looking for more information.

Cheers,

Salar

[NovaScotiaPat]

Thanks to all! Use to watch the guys float fishin for steelhead on the Nine Mile and Maitland up Goderich way when I lived in London. Guess I am a bit of a purist when it comes to flyfishin'...must be the Maritimer in me. Never fished smallies with a fly but I could adapt!! Smallies pound for pound are as good a fightin' fish as any.

I'm a 'no kill " guy. Too many Nova Scotia streams got raped with poor fisheries planning for both brookies (called speckles down home) and Atlantic salmon (awesome on a flyrod!)

Not surprised there's good trout fishin' down Malone way. I will look into it. Thanks for the websites. Fished a lot of Catskill streams that feed the Deleware down around Roscoe New York. We could learn a lot from New York/Pennsylvannia when it comes to stocking programs!

[Salar]

You're welcome. New York is my favorite place to fish around here. Lots of trout to get your fix. While I do a fair amount of fly fishing for smallmouth, I prefer fishing for trout. Some of the most beautiful waters I have seen / fished are trout waters.

Salar.

[Manfred]

Pat et al:

I have been interested for about a year and a half in whether there are any trout to be caught near Ottawa. The best answer I have found is what everyone else has said here: Nope. Go to Malone (in season) for rivers. See Salar's links for further info, especially for really useful maps about public fishing rights on several of the rivers. For small lakes containing brookies and some rainbows, go to Calabogie. The drive is roughly similar to Malone.

There have been several threads on this site since at least the spring of this year that provide useful information on both areas.

Thus, I don't have much more to add and the main reason I am writing is to see if Joco or others could provide more information about what is within two or three hours' drive of Ottawa on the Quebec side. That issue has intrigued me since I started last spring. I spent hours on the internet without finding too much useful information.

Intuitively, it seems to me that there should be rivers and or lakes with brook trout on the Quebec side within, say, a three-hour drive of Ottawa. I guess one of the important factors, especially with the rivers, is water temperature. But what if one went pretty much due north?

I would really, really, like to find a few brook trout streams or rivers in Quebec within, say, a three-hour drive of Ottawa.

For some reason that may be simple nationalism, I would like would like to be able to catch brook trout in a river in Canada rather than having to drive to Malone. (But make no mistake, the rivers around Malone and farther south of there are, in my limited experience, great, and I am glad to have that access).

Still, though, I have found it interesting that there is so little discussion of places nearby in Quebec here.

For my part, I have been confused enough by the whole Quebec set-up in terms of resevation fauniques and SEPAQs (or is that Quebec's LCBO?) that I have not bothered to figure out how to get a Quebec licence and go exploring over there on my own.

Since we're all done with NNY except for a few no-kill regions, and since I have not yet started to beg information on steelhead, some ideas about Quebec would be interesting to see.

(I've got a pretty silly story about my steelhead adventure on the Thanksgiving weekend, but perhaps that can wait until I have a less lame one to add to it).

Manfred

[joco]

I will find more info for you and send you a pm....


soon..

[Jasonb]

Hey Nova Scotia Pat, i fly fish the rideau for smallies every year.... i dont think they are still active enough to try for them now but if you are interested next season i'll show you a couple spots....
smallmouth are amazing on the fly.... you will soon convert to a bass angler on the fly.... hahaha
Jason

[NovaScotiaPat]

Well....this is a great sight indeed! I appreciate all the feedback. No doubt there are some brookie streams on the Quebec side. Jason....the bass conversion process for a Bluenoser may take some time!!! . We'll talk about a day on the Ottawa some more after the snow stops flying around here! Cheers to all!

[Manfred]

Having written a day or so ago about there being no trout in Ottawa, I recalled last night that, in the last two years, I have heard the occasional vague reference to places where you can possibly catch trout pretty much within the City of Ottawa. There is, of course, the Green Drake-led project involving some browns in the Ottawa River. However, I was thinking more about the occasional mention of some tiny river or small creek that still has a few trout in it from one old source or another. Every time this has been mentioned, though, the preface has been "It's a really ugly place, but..." That preface has been enough for me so that, even once or twice when more particular directions followed, they did not stick in my memory. I mention this only because the possibility might be out there for an intrepid person not overly concerned with esthetics.

[Salar]

The Kemptville District MNR stocking lists show stocking of brown trout in Findlay Creek, Poole Creek, and Shields Creek. All of them have been stocked with browns each year for the past 7 years (or more). I haven't tried any of these spots for the same reasons Manfred mentioned.

Salar.

[Jasonb]

Hey N.S. Pat, i used to live in N.B. but i had a really hard time finding any trout... i make trips out there occasionally, i know its not exactly where you're from but would you have any suggestions as to where i could find some? i normally stay in Woodstock but i make frequent trips to Black Beach in Lorneville and i've gone to St John a few times.... also... if you are interested in ice fishing i'd be glad to bring you out.... now that i've got a lot more experience (special thanks to fishstick and seaweed) i now know what type of structure to look for when choosing spots... dont worry guys i know you guys showed me some sweet holes and i'll stay off them... lol.... anyways.... let me know...

Jason

[FLOATFISHIN]

True:

Browns are stocked in said above area's, do they last...........

There is the odd one picked off each yr, I have a friend who has nalied 2, and know one other lad who has hit one. Fishin these areas for 10 odd yrs myself, and know of 3 for sure, and sure stories of others, but lemme tell ya, makin the trip across the pond to NY or even southern On from here, chances increase big time on the trout aspect.

Though, being a Chrome addict myself, and only floatfishing for them (Never really got into the bug chuck) Ottawa does offer some sweet area's not only for smallies, but you can whip bugs for largies in the heart of town, maybe pick up the odd walleye in rappids at last light, and certainly try whippin some bigger bugs for the toothies that haunt our city too Pat

There is a plenty of fish to go after, though Trout being the least populated here, there is many others you can head out to get a bend in the rod!!!

F.F