New Horton Lake, New Brunswick Brook Trout
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Casey and I were out fishing Lake Petit last week and he was asking me if I had ever fished New Horton Lake. I said I hadn’t and the only time I was ever in there was opening day of fishing season about 10 years ago.
The lake was still completely covered with ice and snow but I was there to fish the brook the flows from the lake. It’s full of tasty little trout.
On this opening day I was standing at brook about 10 feet from the beaver dam that holds the lake back and it started to snow. In just minutes it was snowing so hard I could barely see across the 8 foot brook.
It no soon started to snow when the brook trout turned on and seemed to go crazy. It was like a light switch was turned on and the woke up.
I have my best day of trout fishing for that season and never had to move my feet. The action just never stopped and I left with the freshes trout I had in a long time. Ice cold water, they almost froze instantly once I pulled them from the icy water.
Some day I will get to fish the lake but until that time I have a great memory of trout fishing opening day.
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Looks like you had a pretty sweet day on the crick James!
Sadly, trout season closes today here in ontario, so now I can only dream about em for the next 7 months!
dave
Hey Dave, it sucks doesn’t it?
Most of the places I fish trout here is done Sept. 15 but we have so many other places here we can fish until Oct. 15 that I don’t mind so much.
I can still fish pickerel, bass and Atlantic salmon until Oct. 15 and then there are some places I can even fish until mid Nov. but that gets a little too chilly for me then.
I would still like to get out for a few more days on the water and then I will sleep until spring and start all over again.
Another story that makes me want to head east for a trip of fly fishing sometime!
I lived for almost 30 years in Ontario and enjoyed the fishing when I got the chance but when I moved to New Brunswick I changed my entire life and fishing became the thing that held me here.
I love fishing here.