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there we go right at the boat I was just about to consider raising the rod up to hang
just a slow Rod race to induce a take at the end of the retrieve and he whacked it a millisecond
before I thought to do it this this is dogging down it's a brown trout I think and oh yeah
it's a nice nice brown trout so we're just using these balanced leeches with a floating line I'm
in about six feet of water casting towards The Cattails along the shoreline the fish at this
time of the year that's that's the supermarket that's where the food are and balance flies
are an excellent choice especially cast and retrieve looks to be a female nice fat female
of course the males at this time of the year are beautifully colored as well
she's got that balanced leech right in the snow bounce leeches bounce minnows
New Balance damsels balance scuds all creatures of the shallows and just the kind of fodder these
beautiful Fisher getting the Chuck feet up on so I can probably just grab the leader here
one last admiring look at the colors on that fish wow Parklands region is
Southwest Manitoba unbelievable Stillwater Fisheries here all season long it's just a
great place balance flies are the way to go wow I'm gonna keep doing that all afternoon I think
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oh we have a fish on he wasn't even really looking at it
close oh nice jump nice jump what we call a hit and run I wasn't really
looking at it all of a sudden I was actually contemplating a fly change
and all of a sudden boom I just saw the line starting to move out
and he ate this on the go not sure what he ate we're fishing a two-fly rig here oh he's not happy
and he is off and running
that side pressure into the rod fight them better
at this point I want to keep that fish
while it's got lots of energy away from the boat I've got two anchors down
I got long leader here we're fishing 19 feet below
indicator sorry from indicator to bottom fly because we're over 22 feet of water
and we're fishing patterns typically at this depth it's a Muddy Bottom bloodworm patterns
are an excellent choice as our chronic Pupa patterns muddy bottoms are prime coronamid habitat
getting near I always expect a final surge at the boat and I'm sensitive once I bring a trout within
the diameter of the rod that he's tired and sort of steerable so he doesn't suddenly bolt like that
and end up in the anchor ropes
more around a motor or any other obstruction so you don't want to be too aggressive you want to
see obviously Tire the fish but you don't want to be too aggressive to get them in you could put a
bad angle on your rod and cause a breakage or you could wrap up around an anchor rope
and just steer them around if I can over this side
my boat's configured to fish out of the left or port side so I have most
of my equipment lying behind me so it doesn't get under my feet or in the way
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and into the bag
what a beautiful fish just silver bright it's going to reach in and take the fly out
eat the upper fly Corona and pupa I'm gonna get my glove again put the glove on
for the protection of the fish and get a good firm grip on his tail If He Flops around to bang
onto the gunnel he can fall into the water and unrevived state or Worse accidentally
fall into the boat and that wouldn't be good for him so what a magnificent fish
look at that like a chrome bumper it's just beautiful let's get them back in the water
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indicators are a great deep water tactic when fish are taking coronamins here in the Parklands
but another favorite morsel on the agenda are forage fish and if you want to catch a forage
feeding trout you need to work the margins the edges so we're working
along here big Browns and rainbows Cruise along these areas it's very shallow fishing
four or five feet under an indicator they're in here chasing minnows around
so you just pick out likely looking spots I always
like points or openings in Weeds if there's any rocks along the shoreline
you want to work those areas balance flies are excellent for this either specific minnow patterns
or brown Olive colored leeches work well because that is the actual natural coloration of the
forage Basin here the brook sticklebacks fat head minnows those kind of things so I actually have a
dark leech pattern on I call it bruised leech it's a black and blue blend this looks to be
a pretty healthy brown trout there he goes whoa looks to be a big brown trout he's still surging
out in deep water I don't want to horse him we're using strong tippet here minimum minimum
3x eight pound tippet more often 2X 1X and 0x is not unheard of oh it's actually a big rainbow
six weight is being taxed to the limit when you come here a minimum Rod you want to bring is a six
weight you've got large fish windy conditions at times six even seven weights sometimes
you don't want to show up in the Parklands region lightly armored for the battle oh
that is a quality rainbow wow it's gonna move them over to the other side of the boat here
only smokes one two three got the glove on the flies out this fish is has been sitting
in the net and it's I think it's ready to go so we may only get a quick glimpse of this
whoa look at that thing look at that fish
look at him wow that's why you come to the Parklands or it will be one of the Premier Still
Water destinations in North America big Browns big rainbows Tigers brookies they got it all here
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