St. Marys lake trip

[kunni]

hi guys,

I am headed off to st. marys lake next monday for a week with my family. I am bringing my boat, and my fly rods. Does anyone have any tips for this lake, good locations ect? I will be targeting smallies, and also rainbows if the opportunity arises. Are there any other good lakes on salt spring?

Kunni

 

[Karma-Kazi]

Check out all the lakes they all hold somthing for you to catch! A week is a long time. Dont forget the camera. Have a blast. Still want to go over and do that trip one day.

-KK

 

[kunni]

Oh yeah I will get tons of pictures, maybe even a movie or two?

kunni

 

[Dogbreath]

The Best fishing is found @ the North End, along the shore/around the dock by Bachman's Point and down around the pumphouse where a lot of water moves around.The sunken island can be good work all the edges around it.

Start with something small/dark & if that doesn't work go for something flashier.

For Bass cast right to the edge of the weeds and let your offering drop they often slam it then- Cutts you might see cruising the lake they like Big/Flashy IME.

The biggest mistake I see people make is to be too close to the weeds when casting-making long accurate casts pays off and you won't spook fish.

That being said the place is an odd situation-the presence of Perch coupled with little killing means far too many small Bass the place isn't nearly as good a fishery as it once was.

 

[Dan]

Was gonna say the North end as Dogbreath mentioned....West side along Tripp Rd. is good too !
There are a few vids on YouTube for this lake, 1 by myself and a few by FishingWithRod.
Really decent fishing there !

 

[kunni]

Was gonna say the North end as Dogbreath mentioned....West side along Tripp Rd. is good too !
There are a few vids on YouTube for this lake, 1 by myself and a few by FishingWithRod.
Really decent fishing there !

Saw your video and Rods, sounds like there are lots of small fish, but also so nicer ones. Really looking forward to this trip!

Kunni

 

[kunni]

I got back from Salt spring today. I must of had around 80 fish or so, everything was caught on the fly rod and released. I must have made atleast 2500 casts total, on the third day I had to fish my 3 wt because of my hurting arm. I fished for approximately 30 hours during this trip. Black and orange patterns seemed to do well, but almost anything caught these fish. I was amazed at the numbers, but most were small. The biggest was maybe 3 lbs, if that. I also caught lots of small trout, and yellow perch while casting towards the shore for bass. I got a couple of videos, but I am not sure how to upload them, any advice?

kunni

 

[Karma-Kazi]

Looks like fun! Ive deffinitly never had a sore arm from my trout fly rods. You must have been givin'er. Nice fish. THere are some hog bass in there. Good thing you dident hook one on the 3 wt. That might have been scary.

Anymore pics?

-KK

 

[kunni]

Looks like fun! Ive deffinitly never had a sore arm from my trout fly rods. You must have been givin'er. Nice fish. THere are some hog bass in there. Good thing you dident hook one on the 3 wt. That might have been scary.

Anymore pics?

-KK

no more pics unfortunatly, I am headed up island today in hopes of some larger fish. I will try get some pics.

kunni