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[Armin]

Upps Maggi, thanks for the hint
You may have noticed I'm an enthusiastic fisherman too

[Maggi Young]

Yes!! You should be planning to join Fred Admin on his trip to New Zealand, Armin.... he says the fishing there is some of the very best.... 

[Armin]

Maggi, yeeessss!
Brown trout fishing in NZ must be great! I see me already standing in an wild river  and a capital trout is fighting on the root and giving me a big thrill...Oh Armin wake up!
Regrettable I'm afraid can't join.
 

[Blue-bellied Frog]

Paddy,
This lake is on the top of "Bouclier Laurentien" mountain system. When the sun goes down in the evening, insted of being masked by mountain, his light cross the clouds +/- thick. This produce an prismatic effect (Just a theorie).

Armin,
Since at least 25 years, I'm only fishing with artificial fly. Only a little box, and if a trout jump 180° away from your fly, in half a second, you can put your fly in the good spot.
Fishing season began the first May and finish 30 September, but we can't go to this lake before June.

[Lori S.]

Are they lake trout then?  What do you have to use in summer?  Sinking lines and wet flies...?

[Blue-bellied Frog]

Lori,
All those lakes have rivers or Brooks, and trouts can jump from Saguenay (sea level) to lakes up to 800 meters.
I,m not a dogmatic fisher. I usually use dry flies with floating line, and I don't care if I don't catch any fish. The first goal is "Relax".

[Lori S.]

Oh, sorry, maybe I did not make my question clear!    I was wondering what species of trout are in the lake... and maybe you did already answer it, I'm not sure?  (Lake trout and brook trout are two species - best fishing for lake trout is usually when the ice is just out, apparently.  "River" trout is not a term I've heard before, so I don't know if that refers to a particular species in your area?)
Do Atlantic salmon come in from the Saguenay?

[Blue-bellied Frog]

Lori,
The only trout in this lake is this one. http://pages.globetrotter.net/jocelyn.aube/educp1.htm
But his meat vary in 3 colors (White, lighe-pink, salmon-pink)
I had never fished bigger than 12 inches. the better size to eat, (For me).

Bernard

[Armin]

Bernard,
thanks for your reply. Flyfishing only. Fascinating sport.

The Northern Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis, German name: Bachsaibling) has been introduced in the 19th. century in Germany too.
It is one of the most colorful char especial when they spawn. Unfortunately this species did turn out to grow very slow here.
Artificial fish stocking programs therefore nowadays very limited. Also due natural hybridisation with native brown trouts which produce sterile Tiger Trouts influencing our native fish fauna.
But if you catch one accidentally and grill it, the taste is much better then a Rainbow trout or Brown trout.
Smoked it is a special delicacy

[Lori S.]

The only trout in this lake is this one. http://pages.globetrotter.net/jocelyn.aube/educp1.htm
But his meat vary in 3 colors (White, lighe-pink, salmon-pink)
I had never fished bigger than 12 inches. the better size to eat, (For me).

Ahh, pretty little brookies!  Always our favourite, as much for enjoying the habitat where they can live (only the cleanest, coldest water), as for their beauty.  (We used to kill some to eat, but soon went to catch & release, though it was not regulated in the area.) 
We used to flyfish (only) for brookies in northern Saskatchewan where they were stocked in small creeks.  (Lake trout, whitefish and grayling are the only native salmonids there).  Those narrow, willow- and alder-hung streams forced a person to get damned good at casting - your backcast would often have to go out side-arm or up at 80 degrees, to keep from getting hung up in the branches!  Wading was an acquired skill too - the rocks in the creeks were either round, greased cannonballs (from coatings of algae and blackfly larvae) or flat and tippy - very exciting!  Casting and wading in the places we flyfished in Alberta afterwards were child's play, by comparison! 
It was great fun to be out on the stream and see mink moving along the bank, over and under the branches and rocks and into the water and out - they moved like ribbons, or like a length of film as it moves up and down and around through the spools.  Great memories!

[Blue-bellied Frog]

I think we slide out of the subject
Fall's colorson my land.

Bernard

[ranunculus]

Wow, Bernard ... you never said that you lived in paradise! 

[Blue-bellied Frog]

Cliff,
A man made paradise, (Or a Gulag for a man slaving himself to have paradise on earth )
But I don't want to cause this thread sliding away again. Maybe later on a new thread, if I can put my photos in order to describe evolution of the work.
Just one to show the beginning.

Bernard

[ranunculus]

In the bleak mid-winter ...

Images from local beauty spot, Healey Dell taken on Friday after the first light snowfall ... we have had considerably more snow since then.

HEALEY DELL, WHITWORTH.

[ranunculus]

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