Trout Fishing Gear for July Canoe Trip

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I'm heading out for another short, 3-day brook trout fishing trip in the next week, so I need to reorganize my fishing gear. I've been fishing bass, musky and pike for the past few weeks, so I'm set up for those and need to switch over to lighter gear.

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you guys the July fourteenth today midsummer in ontario canada and i am just getting ready to go out on a three-day canoe trip next week with another guy and we're going to be fishing for brook trout in some small rivers and creeks up in neo golf and park area i have a few of these things but the other ones aren't quite the right size so I'm just going to read free set this one up a fact I already did most of it I put in smaller smaller lures in there but one of the things i want to do first very frustrated with this bloody line I've got to two of these identical reals it's the fluger wherever you say that pflueger president series this is the 6920 i think it's the smallest one really small capacity perfect for trout fishing i love it's nice and compact and that's the one i'm going to be using but so last year when i spool these two reels of i put this braided line on here not thinking it's this one here the suffix 83 to advance Supreme Court performance fibers eight braided fibers 32 weaves four inches tenth this is 10 pound for pound mono equivalent so yeah I think that's probably what that is if i look at the diameter of the line yeah yeah that's what it is so this is stuff is great for certain applications the lighter ones though like but i use heavy braid for muskie and pike fishing it's great on my bait caster honest spinning reel not so great and small diameter horrible stuff in fact you won't be able to see this probably but if you were to take that line and you just put a bend in it keeps the bend it doesn't go back to it doesn't bounce back like monofilament does so the problem with that has no stretch so it's great for hook sets but you don't need that on small fish like true

the problem with it is that you get these wind knots see when you're casting it tends to wrap back on itself and then forms a not kink and then or not and it's horrible horrible this keeps getting tangled up like even though this is a break down rod so you get all these pieces that cross over and they just tend to knock together so just enormous here just don't you I put it on here actually for lake trout trolling which is fine it's not a great trolling set up this little spinning reel and break down rug but you know it's not horrible for a for lake trout fishing or deepwater trolling because you're just letting my know but I like to can a canoe especially I like the cast full as far as far as I want as much light as I want to die cast behind the canoe and then I start paddling instead of trying to manage putting in the water then paddling slowly off while the letting light out it's hard to judge how much lines oh so I like the cast and not all the time but some of the time the line ends up getting tangled on that cast and I don't know till it comes back as I'm reeling it in and it's got a loop in the middle of it like a knot in the center of it like that so I'm taking this off and getting rid of this and scrapping this line I keep it for some other purpose maybe put it on a little bait casting or even not a spin casting with some kind of rot real rod and reel venues for trolling so sorry I thought this one that's the one I'm going to put on that's what I'm getting rid of so this is all coming off and i'm putting this trial in XL smooth casting extra limb had smooth casting a point to three millimeter or point zero zero nine inch average diameter wine it's perfect at cass great it's six pound test which i've caught actually the biggest muskie I've ever caught it caught on six pound tests which was a 45 inch muskie I've got her a wall in the other room actually and that's why I landed it on so it's good strong line six pound is often good enough i wouldn't use 6-pound intentionally for bigger fish because I takes too long to bring them in it tires them out and you'll know typically die but for all other fishing I find six pound a really good really good line and then I bring a four pound fluorocarbon for leaders because we're only going after small River and stream broker so I'm going to start by taking this off I'll turn the camera off for a minute get this all off then I'll wind some new stuff on I'll show you what else I'm doing with my tackle actually that was the last straw on the last trip look I'll wrapped around the line that is it on a few camera picked out up or not brutal couldn't even know there's no way I could untangle that it so get getting cut off and throw in the garbage okay so here's what I'm bringing this way my top box up let me zoom that camera out a little bit but actually show you how its organized in there first okay so we're only going for a small River broke turds couple of deeper spots might be River might be 50 60 feet across in a couple of spots especially the deeper pools below the waterfall to couple of waterfalls there but a lot of it soon be in a river that's 10 20 feet wide beaver dams and such so a lot of small small water fishing face of extreme fishing for Brooke true probably gonna take this knife I like take that on trips where I know that are kind of fishing focus don't normally like carrying two knives but a lot of times oh oh I here just that if I'm only doing the occasional fishing it's okay for cleaning fish but if I want to clean fish really accurately that's my my puma cat amount to a pretty decent knife nice thick tang it's comfortable get a lot of purchase on it but anyway for a smaller trout this is a nice little nice little knife fill it knife i bought this couple years ago light plastic almost like a carbon so it's really really light but what i was looking for was a light folding knife I don't like that this has adjustable a removable blades is to head of sharpening it they give you I don't know ten blades or something came with it and has a nice little sheath that the blades fit into that bleep that blade pops off right there and you just slide a new one on like I said rather just sharpen the knife fact this gets in the way any decent sized fish which I don't like so I preferred I like everything about it except for that feature if that was a fixed blade now to fix played a folding blade but a permanent blade I fold it into the night side be perfect and it's got a belt clip pretty strong belt clip legging is clipped out on so that goes in my work bag usually it's a decent knife

so am i bringing a couple of floats may or may not use them usually don't brook trout there are really aggressive so they eat a lot of crayfish actually crayfish god protrude there with fulsome full-size mouse full-grown mouse and a belly usually crayfish in them almost all of them crayfish and minnows little perch so quite a few perch in the area too so I've got that little jig my go-to this is a smaller version of the propeller x-rap in the fire whatever it fire tiger whatever that color is a free with the actual official name of the color is about this sign I can't remember it's a user II actually have caught some brook trout in the small rivers up there on that it's pretty effective actually even in this middle of the stream you'll see the fish come darting out from under the bank from a 510 feet away to nail that then there is one couple small lakes we're going to cross I might drag that behind the canoe maybe with a weight on it as well get the get it down that's actually floating floating or suspending lure so it doesn't really dive all that deep actually in fact it's slightly more buoyant than than neutral so will rise in the water column when I stopped so it really doesn't dive that that deeply but it's decent for for trolling with a canoe be so you stop off and then it doesn't float to the bottom to catch on the bottom so they're the only plugs I'm bringing may or may not get any use out of them that's the go-to on these small rivers

never have used black Furies maps black Furies since I was a kid and I can never explain why they're more effective than then silver or gold or brass but they are camera is not good at close focusing so that's the number one black here got a number three as well little Maps ugly along brass maps a Glee of some kind another breast no name even know what that is anyway few actually I've got a couple more black Furies somewhere that'll come along a lot of snags and the river beaver beaver dams so lots of sticks and logs and lots of rocks in it so that's that's more than enough should be more than enough lures for three day trip again it might drag that on on one of the bigger legs for lake trout or bigger lakeport trip that's some little snap swivels I do use them with the spinners anything else I'll direct tie to the line and I'm bringing the fly reel as well so hopefully I'll get a chance to fly fish we get some nice open strips sections that I can get a good back cast on so I've got some streamers standards for different patterns of streamers there's a Mickey Finn in there some muddler minerals got a few of this gold standard woolly buggers different colors so black tons of leeches in algonquin park so black is really effective most of the men of us are like muddler minnow so they're brown these are pretty pretty effective very effective a little bit of weight to them too so I can get them down in the current so I've got like it's a few different a few different a few different buggers a nice shiny one for aggressive tread the brook trout are generally pretty aggressive so these are probably very effective and these little jigs 20 my spinning spinning gear just a little hair jig different sizes different colors again the aggressive they might be hitting the chargers if they're aggressive and that's pretty much it i got a couple other little assorted jigs these minerals might be decent to it's a good size middle other than that terminal tackle just the little swivels and so on I've got some very small split shot case we are going to do some drifting through the pools buddy you know ideally best bait there would be to catch some leeches or crayfish put them on a small hook couple split shot to keep them down direct I the hook to the line and just drift it through the pattern under the video through the stream under the undercut banks or logs or in the current and falls beneath the beaver dams and the regular falls and stuff I didn't I hope have enough folks in case I do that yeah so I've got some number pick their number 12 single leg hooks and it's a little gamakatsu hooks I used to love these things for steelhead little 12 or 14 even up to like an 18 very tiny tiny hooks but super hooking power in fact I've cut cut chinook salmon up to 30 pounds in the credit river on that tiny little hook just gets embedded in their cheek and I just can't shake it out there's no weight to it so once it's in there it's in there for good until you take it so lots of little tiny hooks case we're going to do any bait fishing like one or two rubber course anchors for getting weight getting the lowers down in the lakes like I said if we fish them what other other than that lots of flies and and some bait hooks feeling we do some bait fishing make sure we catch some some fish for dinner have some fun with the fly fishing and then the spinners for the aggressive fish special especially in the evening mornings they're going to be active to at this time Eirik is water warmer by the evenings they should be really active so that's it you see what size of it I think it's six inches by three inches maybe four three and a half inches I've got to put some electrical tape in there you still gives a better seal so the thing doesn't fill up with water and get old everything all rusty that's the entire kit for the week and even that's overkill unless i snag a lot i take me two months to go through all these lures there's the plus the fly fishing fly fishing reel which i probably won't even bring a separate rod just use it on this rod which would be fine it's not ideal it's not long quite as long or limp limber as the as my other fly rod but it'll do so bring bring these two reels it's going to be a great trip next week is really dry right now we had a lot of heavy rain overnight last night then again some today hope they got it there otherwise the rivers going to be pretty low and muddy but the fish will be stacked up in there where the it wherever there's a he has spring coming into the river or up from the bottom so fish are gonna be easy to find gonna be pretty active so i have no doubt we're gonna catch lots of truth and see lots of wildlife the moose should be in the in the rivers right now feeding a lots of bears in the area wolves as well so yeah it should be a great trip so look forward to coming back looking forward to the trip first then come back and make it a video and hopefully you tuned in thanks for watching