A Smile on a Young Mans Face when Trout Fishing

Last year April 2013 I introduced a good friend of mine Mitch Pateman to stream fishing in southern Ontario. This was all new to Mitch since he was from Dryden Ontario where he mostly targeted tasty walleye using live bait and casting from a boat.

The first thing I did was explain the gear we use when drifting a river and targeting trout or salmon. I also explained the migration, behaviour, and feeding patterns of trout. I mentioned about time on the water. I told him that the more time he spends on the banks of the river, the more comfortable he would be fishing a body of water with a flow and that would make him a better angler in the future. On his first trip trout fishing last May he landed a small 2 lb Brown trout and a 6 lb steelhead and man you should've seen that smile on a young man's face.

One of his graduation gifts was noodle rod and centre-pin reel, before you knew it he was drifting the Humber River in downtown Toronto where he currently resides and got some practice using his new gear on chinook salmon.

Trout opening day this year was not the same as last. This year, the water much higher,colder and off-coloured and not like our typical openers. That being said Mitch still managed to hook five fish, landed three steelhead and two out the three trout he landed were his biggest trout ever! Look at the pictures the smiles says it all. As an avid angler myself I still enjoy looking a smile on a young man's face after a catching a big fish!

Good Job Mitch !