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I'm hoping to get out for a little SM action on the Rideau or Jock after work this evening, assuming the weathe cooperates. If anyone wants to tag along just give me a shout.

Cheers,
Todd

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any idea where you guys are headed? i might be able to make it out later tonight (like past 8 or so) if i can get my lame work finished up.

any idea where you guys are headed? i might be able to make it out later tonight (like past 8 or so) if i can get my lame work finished up.

Wongrs,

Salar looks to be fishing in town, while I'll be fishing closer to Manotick.

thanks todd. i've connected with salar.

It should be a good night of smallie action

I'm sure...the last time I was there we caught quite a few 12" SM that were very chunky. Lots of acrobatics!

If the weather holds I'll be on the Jock around the Jock River Landing.

A group of four made it out to Strathcona park tonight. Fishing was fairly slow. Each of us landed around 3-4 smallmouth. Most fish were caught on buggers. I switched over to a popper near the end to see if I could raise anything. I ended up having 4 hits with two of those fish hooked. The highlight of the night was one of my friends landing a 2lb smallie at dark. It was only his second time fly fishing and the largest fish he's caught on the fly.

I managed to get out for about an hour and a half on the Jock and managed what I would consider a disappointing couple dozen SM, rockbass and fallfish. Most were small with the exception of three 12" SM and a monter fall fish.

Personally I think the new Minto and Matamay subdivisions being built upstream are having a significant impact on the water quality of the river and in turn the fish populations.

No doubt the river has been affected in some ways by the numerous subdivisions......

Thats really too bad, it was a wonderful place to fish years ago......

I guess the secret is going up river even further.

I know a placewhere you can go down and wade up the river for about 1km, it's a nice place to fish......very shallow in summer though.

We used to tube down the jock as children from the Golf Course up near Munster.......Well not from there, but from a farm just below there..due to this dam that is put up in their driveway which would drown you if you tubed through it.....

Anyways, there was big muskie, Walleye and of course pike and other fish in there......

There was a rather healthy sucker population under the jock river bridge....redfin suckers I think? Northern redhorse is the proper name........But yah, alot of suckers at that bridge.... We once found a minnow trap under the bridge on jock trail road and it was filled with all sorts of species, bass, sunfish, perch, and some very small catfish like fish, but it was too small to be a normal catfish.....i'm nto sure what it was....

so yah, fishing the jock can be good upstream maybe? Try fishing in Kings Creek too......we've seen muskie in there! haha........