fishingbuddha

Now that lake fishing has finished for the year it’s time to shift to moving water. Yesterday’s sturgeon trip turned into a personal best for largest sturgeon caught in the lower river for my boat measuring in at 7.4ft long. But not just long .:::this fish was thick.

It took all three guys to rotate reeling in this bad boy. At the end of the day me landed 4 but went through a lot of bait and after the last fish bit so softly….we were left wondering how many sturgeon we might have missed!

Nevertheless…..it was another great day on the water and look forward to getting some more in before the end of 2025!

2025 has been another great year and what a way to end the Stillwater season.

Six of us headed up to one of my favourite lakes for some late fall fishing.

Again this lake don’t disappoint as not only were there a lot of fish caught but some personal bests.

Our boat landed over 80 fish over the weekend thanks to Derek’s red and black jig head leech which was dangled under the indicator. It always amazes me how there are times that it doesn’t matter what one uses to hook into the bows while on other trips they are only biting on the one fly. For our boat that fly was Derek’s red and black with red bead micro leech. Seemed like the fish wanted sparse and skinny flies not fluffed up and thicker leeches.

Fish didn’t seem to shy away from Brian’s uv micro leech as he landed a ten over as well as other fish in the 4-6 lb range.

Although most of us were dangling flies under the indicator, Istvan managed to land many casting and retrieving with a prince nymph. But to land the bigger ones he had to switch to the indicator as it appeared the larger trout were looking for dangling flies.

All in all the trip was a huge success, good buddies, decent weather (even though it snowed) and overall a great way to end the season. You can count on us coming back next year for a repeat!