World Record Brook Trout - Nipigon River Ontario - The New Fly Fisher
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Date: 2022-05-15
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Andrew
This video is great but just makes me sad. The Pine Portage dam only produces about 130MW. That's about enough for 80k homes. One medium size town. The rough equivalent of about 50-65 typical utility-scale wind turbines. I know Canada loves its hydropower, and it's great that it's CO2-free. But damn if a lot of incredible places and fisheries have been just wrecked by it. That's a rough trade off, and will continue to look worse and worse as the cost of solar and wind continue to come down. You'd love to at least see fish ladders or some other means of making the dams passable, but even with that you don't guarantee anything considering the fish may not thrive in the reservoirs or successfully swim up them. The US is obviously guilty of this as well, but there have been a significant number of dam removals (usually at the time of of license renewal, because companies decide it's cheaper to pull it than to bring it up to current standards. And the US has pretty much gotten out of the business of building new massive dams. Hopefully going forward, Canada power producers can find ways to move to other energy sources that aren't so hard on these fishing and scenic resources.
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This video is great but just makes me sad. The Pine Portage dam only produces about 130MW. That's about enough for 80k homes. One medium size town. The rough equivalent of about 50-65 typical utility-scale wind turbines. I know Canada loves its hydropower, and it's great that it's CO2-free. But damn if a lot of incredible places and fisheries have been just wrecked by it. That's a rough trade off, and will continue to look worse and worse as the cost of solar and wind continue to come down. You'd love to at least see fish ladders or some other means of making the dams passable, but even with that you don't guarantee anything considering the fish may not thrive in the reservoirs or successfully swim up them. The US is obviously guilty of this as well, but there have been a significant number of dam removals (usually at the time of of license renewal, because companies decide it's cheaper to pull it than to bring it up to current standards. And the US has pretty much gotten out of the business of building new massive dams. Hopefully going forward, Canada power producers can find ways to move to other energy sources that aren't so hard on these fishing and scenic resources.
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Ted
A larger brook tout may have been caught in Labrador. Is weight was estimated at 17 pounds. It was released. The world record Nipigon fish was split itwo and both halves mounted. I measured one of the halves before it was stolen. My memory is a bit foggy now but I believe it was from 36 to 38 inches long. It was not caught on a fly like Field and Stream Magazine claimed. It was caught on a fresh water sculpin not a fly. I interviewed the guide for the angler who caught it when it was caught.
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A larger brook tout may have been caught in Labrador. Is weight was estimated at 17 pounds. It was released. The world record Nipigon fish was split itwo and both halves mounted. I measured one of the halves before it was stolen. My memory is a bit foggy now but I believe it was from 36 to 38 inches long. It was not caught on a fly like Field and Stream Magazine claimed. It was caught on a fresh water sculpin not a fly. I interviewed the guide for the angler who caught it when it was caught.
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Raymon
When I was a teenager I was camping with my family at Weber Lake in the California Sierra Mountains. The lake was a private lake at that time. This would be in the late 1960's. I caught a 3 1/2 pound Brook Trout trolling with spinner blades and night crawler. That is still my biggest brook trout. A few days later I caught a 7 1/2 Brown trolling a flat fish in the evening. I miss those days with my family camping.
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When I was a teenager I was camping with my family at Weber Lake in the California Sierra Mountains. The lake was a private lake at that time. This would be in the late 1960's. I caught a 3 1/2 pound Brook Trout trolling with spinner blades and night crawler. That is still my biggest brook trout. A few days later I caught a 7 1/2 Brown trolling a flat fish in the evening. I miss those days with my family camping.
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Bee
Someone needs to take a trip to the Smokey mountains. Stop in at the local restaurants and check the pictures on the walls. There's loads of huge specks in this class that were caught by loggers in the 50's while they were logging out the American chestnut killed by the blight. All since gone with the ignorant introduction of rainbows and browns to compliment the Chinese chestnut blight.
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Someone needs to take a trip to the Smokey mountains. Stop in at the local restaurants and check the pictures on the walls. There's loads of huge specks in this class that were caught by loggers in the 50's while they were logging out the American chestnut killed by the blight. All since gone with the ignorant introduction of rainbows and browns to compliment the Chinese chestnut blight.
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Keith
Good old T-Bay. Boy did I get drunk. The black flies were every where and the mosquito's vicious, It was raining and snowing
we had waves, whitecaps it was thundering and lighting the sky was on FIRE. We killed the Brook trout one every 4 to 5 minuits.
We got board. We killed the walleyes Dave brought his smoker. Smoked walleye is great and smoked pike is right up there too.
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Good old T-Bay. Boy did I get drunk. The black flies were every where and the mosquito's vicious, It was raining and snowing
we had waves, whitecaps it was thundering and lighting the sky was on FIRE. We killed the Brook trout one every 4 to 5 minuits.
We got board. We killed the walleyes Dave brought his smoker. Smoked walleye is great and smoked pike is right up there too.
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WOOD
The whole North shore of Lake Superior is pretty much poverty stricken today. Some work but certainly not like it was in the 50s to late 80s. Mostly American paper companies pulled out and left us Canadians ship wrecked. I live in Manitouwadge retired now and wouldn't move to the City if you gave me 5 million. FACT!
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The whole North shore of Lake Superior is pretty much poverty stricken today. Some work but certainly not like it was in the 50s to late 80s. Mostly American paper companies pulled out and left us Canadians ship wrecked. I live in Manitouwadge retired now and wouldn't move to the City if you gave me 5 million. FACT!
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Sean
2nd trout I ever caught was a 27 inch native brookie out of the saddle river, new jersey. I new nothing of trout and I ate it. That same year I caught an 11 pound largemouth, a kid from Florida, I saw it was a female with eggs and let her go. Years later I find out both of these fish would have been state records
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2nd trout I ever caught was a 27 inch native brookie out of the saddle river, new jersey. I new nothing of trout and I ate it. That same year I caught an 11 pound largemouth, a kid from Florida, I saw it was a female with eggs and let her go. Years later I find out both of these fish would have been state records
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Lou
The largest brook trout ever caught was a 17lb or 18lb but it was caught by a angler who was fishing in a tournament for another species and he released it but he took a picture before he released it but they didn't weigh it but it size they guessed 17 or 18lbs at minimum
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The largest brook trout ever caught was a 17lb or 18lb but it was caught by a angler who was fishing in a tournament for another species and he released it but he took a picture before he released it but they didn't weigh it but it size they guessed 17 or 18lbs at minimum
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WOOD
I still have my mount from (Telesky taxidermy ) I caught a 6. 5 pound brookie from emerald lake north of manitouwadge Ont. They did such a great job mounting it that today it looks like the day I caught it. that was 36 years ago! They also mounted my 14 pound pickerel.
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I still have my mount from (Telesky taxidermy ) I caught a 6. 5 pound brookie from emerald lake north of manitouwadge Ont. They did such a great job mounting it that today it looks like the day I caught it. that was 36 years ago! They also mounted my 14 pound pickerel.
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Klantifa
I know a place in California that kicks out 7 pound football shaped brookies fat off fresh water shrimp. If I get 69 likes I will share the information with everyone that comments. Maybe lol
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I know a place in California that kicks out 7 pound football shaped brookies fat off fresh water shrimp. If I get 69 likes I will share the information with everyone that comments. Maybe lol
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