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Rainy Day Trout
Rainy Day Trout
Enjoying the outdoors becomes even more incredible when you can share it with women and youth. Sharing knowledge and experience is an imperative part of keeping the outdoors alive in our younger generations. I have always found that the time I spend with women and youth to be rewarding and entertaining.
After the winter season of ice fishing closes, and we wait patiently for open water season to open. We all sit and wonder what to do with ourselves. Recently, I found a great solution. Last weekend, Stu McKay owner of Cats on the Red, and I rounded up a group of youth and head a few hours out of town to a stocked trout pond. Here in Manitoba’s stocked trout ponds remain open year round. This wonderful little spot has no electrical sites, no running water unless you hustle with the pail and no one camping beside you, unless you count the wild life.
We found that tenting was made easy, when we used a little imagination. Taking our Clam Based Camps with us and using poly on the ground made for real fast set up of camp. It took no longer than ten minutes to pop up four tents and get ready to fish. There was one slight problem, rain, rain and more rain. It seemed the sky’s opened every hour on the hour. The amazing part was these young men that we took with us on the trip. As Stu and I sat and sipped a cup of hot tea, I peeked out the tent window, all the boys stood on the shore in rain poncho’s, trying to catch one more trout. The rain never let up and at one point we were blessed with pea size hail, but it never stopped the boys. The Clam Base Camps never leaked, which I found absolutely amazing! Some water managed to make it way in on the floors of some of them but that was due to setting it up on uneven ground. I found them to be so much easier to set up and take down, that I think I have now retired my tent.
The boys used a couple of very simple techniques. The first being a weight with a two foot snell, and a small hook on the end, tipped with just a third of a worm. The second being a slip bobber placed about three feet up the line, a tiny jig and part of worm. Both methods proved to be extremely successful. We caught enough trout to feast on Saturday night and share with friends and families.
The rain may have never stopped but the neither did the fun we had with the youth. Teaching and watching seems to be just as rewarding as catching the fish.
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