That's great! I've been fishing quite a lot here in ontario as well with some luck but not fantastic...it seems that the rainbows and specks just turn right off and wont bite for days. Ill try the fresh eggs and see how that works. My lake had over 2 feet of snow from the last 2 dumps we just got so I snowblowed about 2 acres off to help them out, and it's been cold so my aerator holes have been getting smaller and smaller. Thankfully warmer wx is starting on thursday and these deep freeze temps will be a thing of the past.
Great looking fish!
There's been so much snow this year. I used to try and keep a big area clear but now I just run an aerator which seems to be good enough since the pond is only an acre.
If your trout seem to sit on bottom and eat bugs, I've also found a weighted fly bounced on the bottom can also work well. I get the roe from steelhead/rainbows I catch since I am near Georgian Bay. I've never tried roe from my own fish but I'm guessing it'd be the exact same. What do you usually use to catch them?
Ya it's lots of work helping these little shits out but Im not sure they need it, Im making a spring/trickle into the lake this spring so it should help the lake out a lot and hopefully I wont have to aerate and keep a hole open.
Up until 2 weeks ago they were right on bottom, like hugging the terrain and all depths, I caught them on worms and a white jig mainly. Many times they would just come up and look at the jig and turn away. We sight fish when we can so wee can see them. We did find that just a worm on the jig and no movement worked better than jigging for some reason.
No idea where to get roe around here, my rainbows are triploid so they have no eggs, the brookies ive caught havent had any eggs in them - all males. If you are ever up around ottawa hit me up if you want to fish for a day.
Cheers.
