Weekend fishing...

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:48 am

Trust me, don't even bother attempting it. Just remember that tube are meant for stillwater (or VERY slow currents). With the current water levels you can wade almost 1km down from the dam.

Post by **HereMyGo** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:51 am

Todd B. wrote:Trust me, don't even bother attempting it. Just remember that tube are meant for stillwater (or VERY slow currents). With the current water levels you can wade almost 1km down from the dam.

...but if you do decide to try it, let me know! I'd like to be there to watch!

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:54 am

Yeah, might make for a winning AFV video entry.

Post by **Hookup** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:11 am

Naw, I'm thinking close to home, easy access, fun to wade... leave the tubes at home... I really have a lot of fun when I wade/fish... It's sooo different than boat fishing and not boring like shore-fishing...

I'm only out till about 9am-9:30am anyhow... so the close to home is kind of key.

Tubing is "nice" but it was slow and slow and slow when we did it at the jock, there are places where that is a plus, and places where it is a minus.. i'm thinking the more current you get, the more of a minus.. the back-lakes and so fourth where I can bob around and troll would be more suited to tubes.

That's me being somewhat lazy though... which i tend to be.

As for Long-Island, given the parking restrictions at the locks, is it better to go in at Barnsdale Rd. and wade/power-fish down to the damn, or to park at the locks, walk the ~10 km to the damn, fall down the hill to the water, and then start to fish? Falling down the hill is only an option, i guess we could walk down the hill... and i'm sure it's a bit closer than 10km..

The other place would be the Jock at Jockvale Road behind the barrhaven town center area... never fished there before, but it looks like some deeper pools exist... Also the Jock has some rapids and some bigger pools at Greenbank Rd... Again, I've never fished there before, that would be more of a tube-place... I'm not sure I want to put my tube into the Jock... Again, not really looking forward to the smell....

My "pref" would be past the damn area at Long-Island Locks... But i'll go with the flow for sure...

Post by **JeanDorais** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:30 am

Alrighty, here's my plan for this weekend's fun.

Saturday, Sept 13. Meet at the Barnsdale/Bartlett Park area for 06:00-ish...we can then wade down beyond the rapids and fish below the dam and see what develops or we can try further up the Jock were Todd seemed to have all the luck last week... : ) It's only a 5 minute drive if we decide to try further up the Jock.

Leaving the tube at home, check.

Jean

Post by **Rybren** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:44 pm

OK. I hope to get there by 6:30-ish. Haven't fished below that dam yet & am looking forward to giving it a try.

Cheers

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:19 pm

Heavy olive woolly buggers should still be the ticket until the bass switch over from crayfish to minnows.

Post by **JeanDorais** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:31 pm

Gerry: look forward to seeing you there.
Todd: thanks for the information...I'm a little short of WB's, will tie some this evening to stock up again.

Jean

Post by **JeanDorais** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:19 pm

The weather is looking like it's going to give us a break for tomorrow. I'll be in the Bartlett Park parking lot for 06:00, might scoot down the road before the bridge (name escapes me) in order to avoid the rapids and hit the water below the dam, but I'll be in the usual parking lot for 06:00.

Jean

Post by **Hookup** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:50 pm

I'm thinking that based upon today's 6am adventure to Montreal, that it might be a bit dark... i was thinking targeting 6:15 might be a better idea.

I'll be there at 6:15, cause 15mn of extra sleep is gold baby, pure gold.

Post by **JeanDorais** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:01 pm

06:00 at the parking lot...I'm a slow dresser

Jean

Post by **Rybren** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:55 pm

You guys will probably already be on the water when I get there. Don't catch all of the fish.

Jerry

Post by **Hookup** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:40 am

Fishing Report:

The fishing was good. Best luck on chile peppers, size 6. Mine was modified with a bright yellow tail.

Picked up 2 over 14 inches and nice and fat... a solid 2lbs each.. below the last rapids after the falls..

Oh, and I fell in. so now i'm a real fly-fisher... yeah, got soaked... kinda funny, glad it happened on the wade back to the car...

Tim

Post by **Hookup** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:40 am

Fishing Report:

The fishing was good. Best luck on chile peppers, size 6. Mine was modified with a bright yellow tail.

Picked up 2 over 14 inches and nice and fat... a solid 2lbs each.. below the last rapids after the falls..

Oh, and I fell in. so now i'm a real fly-fisher... yeah, got soaked... kinda funny, glad it happened on the wade back to the car...

Tim

Post by **Rybren** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:28 am

Tim:

It was tough walking/wading there. I guess that I'm the only one to stay upright while on the water - I did manage to trip on the way back to the car and sprained a finger, but I didn't get wet!

Nice meeting you.

Jerry