Stocking Haircut Lake (from Adam)

August 03, 2009 at 11:56 am

Dennis,
Every year that I have stocked Rainbow trout fry in the stocked lakes is different. Sometimes it is routine, sometimes it is scorching hot out, sometimes the helicopter pilot makes it easy, sometimes not, sometimes it is a ‘warm fuzzy feeling’, sometimes it is pouring rain, sometimes the mosquitoes are out in full force, sometimes they’re not, sometimes I watch a bigger trout gobble up the small fry, sometimes a bear will appear and usually the fry will stick around where they are let out.
This year, I was met by Minnie & Jim Clark from Timber Point and Pansy Allen from Johnson’s Crossing. We each grabbed a jug or two of fry and headed down the steep bank to the lake. In the meantime, I was giving my ‘spiel’ on where the fry are from to how they ended up here while waiting about 15 minutes for the fry to acclimate with the lake water while the bigger bows were rising left, right and centre. I’m still not sure why I leave my rod and reel at home when setting out to stock fish. It could the separation of events. These pot-hole lakes are there to alleviate the pressure on the natural stocks of grayling, trout and pike. And there is a 5 trout limit which is only surpassed by the burbot limit.
I also told them what was the best way to catch trout at this lake. I came back the next day with a rod and real and scores of lures, bait, and flies and proceeded to get skunked after 2 1/2 hours. Go figure! But the birds were chirping and the mosquitoes were slow! I forgot how comfortable a shore nap could be!
Adam

(Photo by Jim Clark)

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