Ottawa River - Thursday evening

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Ottawa River - Thursday evening

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I stopped at the Ottawa river (near westboro beach) on the way home from work and for the first time this year, did some fly fishing. A little rusty but no incidents. If you saw me and the line was all bunched up at my feet, that was only one time :D :D ... the rest of the time was all perfect (honest! :roll: )

I was out a little less than an hour and got this guy on a clouser minnow I had tied myself. Also got some others on a badly worn self tied black wooly bugger.

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jduimovich/ ... 6610"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/jduimovich/SK6uFVJ ... 5.jpg"></a>

Forgot my waterproof camera in the car so the non-waterproof cell phone had to do. No dropping incidents there either but usually it's a recipe for disaster so this is the best pic I could get.

The water is warm enough to wet wade and the current is slighty slower than it's been through the summer (although nowhere near the usual low flows this time of year). Perfect time to wade the Ottawa and Rdeau rivers for bass. They are hungry, they hit everything and at times you can get non-stop aerial action going.
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Nothing better than catching them on self-tied stuff. Thanks for the report.
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Post by FishingIsHealing »

Very nice, I hope to get into fly fishing soon.......

I have a nice rod but still have to get a reel and some line........

I love the feel of the fly rod though, just putting it together and going into the back yard and moving it around feels wicked....i can imagine it's amazing to catch even the smallest fish on it.....

Mine is a 5wt fenwick......can't wait to get it going and learn how to fly fish!

Take care!

==Tom==
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