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Spent the past few days up at Swan Lake – and was the fishing on!

While the numbers weren’t quite those of years gone by, the size of the fish and the fight they put on hasn’t waned too badly!

The fish that I caught ranged between 14″ and 29″ – with the average fish between 18″ and 20″

Had some typical end of fall weather – Saturday there was a wind warning for the area, which made for some interesting water! At least I know how my pontoon boat behaves in 2′ swells and whitecaps ;^)

A mink leech seemed to be the fly of choice this trip – Don Anderson had a version that he was using – I tied up some that were very similar to a rabbit zonker – and they were very durable and very effective!

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Planning has begun for our annual spring fishing trip, and this year, we’re planning on venturing out of province.

The details aren’t set in stone yet, but some of the lakes we’re looking at exploring include some lakes in the White Swan Provincial Park area.  Might take the Rubicon along, so that we can just set up camp once.  Looking forward to some spectacular scenery, along with some great fishing!

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Went for a drive to a couple local lakes with Shan yesterday, and actually found one spot had a fair bit of open water. The aerator was still running, and provided that the wind doesn’t pick up too significantly and blow a pile of ice in towards the dock, it should be okay this weekend!

We are so anxious to get the new pontoon boats wet – I set mine up in the living room just to practice the setup, and try and figure out where I want my rod holder and sonar mounted.

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Got back last night from the last fishing trip of the year. Headed up Friday after work, and woke up to a nice sunny morning – a little cool… but it was sunny. The fishing was slower than we’ve experienced in the past… likely due to the water temp… the finder was recording temps between 41 and 43 Fahrenheit… made those releases a little chilly!

The aerators are up and running – all 10 of them! Had never seen them running before, and they made quite a noise…

Here are a few photos – more in the works!

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Back from 8 days of fishing.

We got to Sulphur Lake around 8:30 or so Friday night – the campground was the busiest I’ve ever seen it. The sites are no longer free, but the nightly fee is only $5.

Did some casting from shore, and did manage to tie into a 13″-14″ Rainbow. Over the next few days we would catch numerous fish – and we caught many more Brook Trout than previous years. Shan had chatted with the biologist in the region, and from netting tests of the lake, Brook Trout have become the dominant species in Sulphur Lake now. The fish seemed a bit smaller than previous years. I think that the largest fish was around 18″ or so.

We fished Sulphur till Tuesday, and moved on to Swan Lake for some bigger fish.

We managed to get lucky and got the last site with a firepit on the north side of the parking lot. The camping at Swan is still free, but unfortunately, it appears that there is no longer any maintenance of the area. The fish cleaning stand was a mess – containers inside full of maggots, and smelling bad. No firewood, so people were chainsawing deadfall, and dead trees.

On Thursday there was a visit by the stocking truck – and 31,000 trout were added to the lake. Here are some of the pictures:

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