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FALL FISHING DERBY GOES UNTIL MONDAY
OSWEGO - Erieville's James Huftalen, who caught a 38-pound, 14-ounce Chinook salmon in Oswego on the first day of the event, is still the grand-prize leader in the Lake Ontario Counties Trout & Salmon Derby. The derby continues through Monday in the U.S. and Canadian waters of Lake Ontario. The grand prize is $20,000. Huftalen caught the fish while on a charter with his friend Bill Bouck aboard Captain Ernie Lantiegne's Fish Doctor Charters. The salmon was caught using copper line on a planer board with a Hot Chip flasher and a Howie Fly. Lantiegne said they were trolling in about 120 feet of water west of Oswego. The fish was about 90 feet down, and was caught at about 3:30 p.m. The Chinook salmon was weighed at Larry's Oswego Salmon Shop, an official registration point and weigh station of the derby.
Trout blamed for too much
WITH the new trout fishing season upon us, I think that my recent discovery is timely. Among some old papers which were stacked in a box under my house, I found a report concerning the native spotted tree frog, Litorea spenceri, which was threatened with extinction some time before 1990, although the report I have is dated 1997. The main theme of the report was that these threatened frogs were declining in numbers as a result of being eaten by rainbow trout. To help the dwindling frog numbers there was a scheme afoot, involving the Victorian Government and then Department of Environment, to withdraw or eradicate rainbow trout from streams in the Mt Buffalo National Park in particular, in an effort to halt this alarming decline in frog numbers. Both rainbow trout and brown trout are exotic fish species, being introduced into Australia from the US and England respectively in the late 19th century.
On the Fly: Hoppers and droppers
Dave Johnson, owner of Carbondale-based Independent Flyfishing Guides, reached on his boat during a float down the middle Roaring Fork River on Monday, had just released an 18- to 20-inch rainbow that rose to a hopper.
The hopper/dropper combo is a good bet on the Roaring Fork these days, according to Johnson, who recommends a small pheasant tail for the dropper (a small nymph trailing off a larger dry fly).
The Colorado River flowing through Glenwood Canyon remains chocolate brown, but the lower Fork is also producing trout in the net with a hopper/dropper combination, according to Drew Reid at Roaring Fork Anglers in Glenwood Springs. He suggested a small blue-wing olive nymph or emerger pattern for the dropper - a No. 18 or 20 RS-2 or a pheasant tail.
"If it's cloudy, we're throwing streamers and doing really well," Reid added.
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