Just thinking about taking some time off and doing a little spinning for brook trout, brings back some great memories. One of my favorite locations for such an adventure is Northern Ontario. Whether fishing the lakes or streams of Northern Ontario for brook trout, doesn't really matter. Either will give you tons of pleasure and memories that last a lifetime. Beautiful scenery, coupled with one of the most prized fish with anglers, doesn't get much better.
If you have ever been brook trout fishing in some Northern Ontario lakes just before sunset, you have seen the surface of the water come to a boil. This is caused because speckles are feeding on insects and flies that are floating on the water's surface. Just imagine setting in your canoe casting and all of a sudden this brookie ranging in the 15-17 inch size, body slams the surface a few feet from you. You start casting like crazy all around the circle ripples that the fish left. The odds are not with you to catch this fish, not that it hasn't happen, but when the brook trout are feeding on flies its had to get these fish to bite a spoon or spinner.
Many a nice brook trout has been caught fishing with the right lure .at the right time and place. One day after portaging our canoe and spinning tackle into this back lake, I was pleasantly surprised with a nice brookie. After getting the canoe ready and in the water we started slowly paddling the shore line about casting distance to the shore line. As we where drifting past this over-hanging cedar tree, I casted a 5 of diamonds up under it. It landed a couple feet from shore. I only had reeled in a few feet when the brook trout hit like a locomotive. After a few very tense moments of give and take, a gorgeous 4.5 lbs. brook trout came along side of my canoe. BTW a 5 of diamonds is a spoon that is yellow on one side with 5 small red diamonds on it. the other side is a brass color. During that day we caught my more speckles and a few whitefish but that one brook trout was the high-light of our fishing trip.
When fishing Northern Ontario lakes for brook trout I look for several things. I like fishing the wind blown side of the lake, because this stirs up lots of feed and the trout are then feeding. I then will fish that shore-line looking for downed trees that are mostly in the water. I fish along side these near the bottom as possible. You will lose a few lures this way, but you need to be fishing where the fish are.
Also don't over look the beaver huts that dot most northern lakes. Brook trout love these spots. This is because minnows live in and around all the sunken bush that beaver drags to this spot. A good way to fish these is to pull up within casting distance from the main hut. Set there quietly for a few minutes and let things calm down. If there are brook trout feeding there quite often you will see schools of minnows coming to the surface of the water and even some jumping right out of the water. The minnows do this in order to get out of the brookies path.
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