Laker_Taker and myself have planned a week long car camping backroads fishing trip. We'll have our float tubes and fly gear and more than likely try fishing a few times for trout with this gear. The tour is south of Kesagami Lake on the Detour Mine Road east of Cochrane, and as well south to Temagami and then further southeast into Quebec and Zec Dumoine. Usually these areas are about a week to two into the fall ahead of the Ottawa valley. Couple different trout species will be targetted...
Rainbows, brookies, splake, aurora and lakers.
Any suggestions at all. Tips, tactics, gear, flies... anything.
September Trout.
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FLOATFISHIN
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hey moosebunk:
man do i envy you
My most productive fly for big rainbows has been a black and white clouser minnow"size 6-8." A good way to fish it is with a hares ear or a simillar nymph trailed behind it as a dropper. I am also assuming that you will have a selection of buggers and leeches, which are a must have. I recommend having black, olive and maroon, in sizes ranging from 4-12.
I'm not so sure what hatches up there, but in october/late september we have a rampage of lady bugs, but up north you will probably get the hatch earlier"but im not sure
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when you get back im hoping for a fun bunk post loaded with some nice trout shots
good luck,yff
man do i envy you
My most productive fly for big rainbows has been a black and white clouser minnow"size 6-8." A good way to fish it is with a hares ear or a simillar nymph trailed behind it as a dropper. I am also assuming that you will have a selection of buggers and leeches, which are a must have. I recommend having black, olive and maroon, in sizes ranging from 4-12.
I'm not so sure what hatches up there, but in october/late september we have a rampage of lady bugs, but up north you will probably get the hatch earlier"but im not sure
"when you get back im hoping for a fun bunk post loaded with some nice trout shots
good luck,yff
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Moosebunk: For those trout (never encountered an aurora though....) i would bring your sinking line or at least a sink tip, along with a wide variety of flies. When you are that far from home, you don't want to be found without everything you may or may not encounter. Firstly, be sure you have some good minnow and leech imitations. I highly reccomend fishing a Lew Oatman Baby Brook Trout (On the cover of Fly Tyer Magazine about a year ago), to imitate some of the brook trout minnows that will be around. Also tie a wide variety of clouser minnows in different colours to match some of the other fry you may encounter. DO NOT forget at least a box-full of terestrials, because in the late season there may be flying ants, crickets, hoppers or other things of the like gracing the water, if they are rising, be prepared! Also do not forget leaches: Trilobal, Polar or Ice Chenille, Seal Fur... Bring all sorts of large, ugly flies that will get down to the fish, but bring sizes from 4/0 - 8. Also bring some attractor wooly buggers, purple crystal, olive, yellow and the like. Large Nymphs should work like kauffman's stones and Summer Stones. I usually start off with a s1 Black Wooly Bugger with a Kauffman's Stone trailed about 3 feet behind as a dropper, it's unorthodox, but when searching a large lake, you have to use a tandem to find out what the fish will bite.
Good Luck
RL
Good Luck
RL