Greetings,
Next week, I will be heading up to the head waters of the Credit for the first time in years. Any news on the action or what's hatching woulb be great.
Thx,
Chris
Forks of the Credit
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FF,
He's head to the headwaters, not the mouth. We're not all Chromers (yet). LOL Some of us still enjoy Brookies and Browns.
Ganny I'll let you know the action is. I'm planning to hit the Grand and the Forks over the long weekend.
Cheers,
He's head to the headwaters, not the mouth. We're not all Chromers (yet). LOL Some of us still enjoy Brookies and Browns.
Ganny I'll let you know the action is. I'm planning to hit the Grand and the Forks over the long weekend.
Cheers,
"There wouldn't have been any butt kickings if that stupid death ray had worked."
It's been a couple years since I fished the Forks in sept. great time and place. Here's what I remember.
Tailing off in August early Sept will be white flies. Size 14 evenings and yes all white. Especially right at dusk.
September is Isonychia time. All month long. If you don't recognize the name its a large Mayfly. On the Credit likely a sz 12. It has a reddish-gray- brown body with slate gray wings. If you catch one you'll see it has pale yellow legs...very pretty.
For dry flies you can use any large dark grey/brown fly. A dark hendrickson, adams, dun variant, grey wullf etc.
The nymph is a sz 10 and swims as well as a tiny minnow. Fish with quick short strips not a dead drift. Especially around mid stream rocks. look for there casings on rocks. Any dark cylinderical nymph works....especially if it has peacock herl. Zug Bug, Leadwing coachman wet fly or Prince. Don't use a light tippet they hit it hard.
Use the nymph all day. Early sept the dry fly in the evening switching to daytime on cloudy days and later in the month.
On rainy/overcast days try a blue wing olive size 18. The dirtier day the better.
Caddis are always about. Next few weeks a sz 14-16 with white wing/green body. Later a big pumpkin one sz 10-12 burnt orange colour.
Always hoppers about and flying ants. If you see fish feeding but no bugs in the air put on a tiny ant.
September is my favourite time to trout fish.
Check out some of the Credit River websites. I'm sure there are a few.
Tailing off in August early Sept will be white flies. Size 14 evenings and yes all white. Especially right at dusk.
September is Isonychia time. All month long. If you don't recognize the name its a large Mayfly. On the Credit likely a sz 12. It has a reddish-gray- brown body with slate gray wings. If you catch one you'll see it has pale yellow legs...very pretty.
For dry flies you can use any large dark grey/brown fly. A dark hendrickson, adams, dun variant, grey wullf etc.
The nymph is a sz 10 and swims as well as a tiny minnow. Fish with quick short strips not a dead drift. Especially around mid stream rocks. look for there casings on rocks. Any dark cylinderical nymph works....especially if it has peacock herl. Zug Bug, Leadwing coachman wet fly or Prince. Don't use a light tippet they hit it hard.
Use the nymph all day. Early sept the dry fly in the evening switching to daytime on cloudy days and later in the month.
On rainy/overcast days try a blue wing olive size 18. The dirtier day the better.
Caddis are always about. Next few weeks a sz 14-16 with white wing/green body. Later a big pumpkin one sz 10-12 burnt orange colour.
Always hoppers about and flying ants. If you see fish feeding but no bugs in the air put on a tiny ant.
September is my favourite time to trout fish.
Check out some of the Credit River websites. I'm sure there are a few.
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I'm not from that area but I'm pretty postive the answer is no. Somewhere around Streetsville they're blocked. I think Chinooks are stopped even lower down. I think they allow Atlantics or what there is of them to go higher. Pretty easy to do , if there are any around they come into the river in summer.
A local could tell you better.
A local could tell you better.
I just got back from a weekend on the Grand River with a side trip to the Forks. The Credit offers some great scenery but the fishing was a bust. We fished the Dominion St. Bridge section, managing to hook and lose only one fish. Apart from the hole under the bridge, we managed to find only one other hole. The majority of the water averaged 18". In addition, there was no hatch to speak of the evening we were there.
If you're looking to fly fish for trout I would suggest making the extra trek over to Fergus to fish the upper section of the Grand. They've been having good hatches and the fishing has been good. I lost a nice one Sunday morning.
If you're looking to fly fish for trout I would suggest making the extra trek over to Fergus to fish the upper section of the Grand. They've been having good hatches and the fishing has been good. I lost a nice one Sunday morning.
"There wouldn't have been any butt kickings if that stupid death ray had worked."