Curious about setup you folks use in a river like the N. Sask. I am waaaayyyyy down south, so not familiar with your waters at all, but assume there are some pike in there too. If you are using "lighter" leader/tippet, targeting walleye or browns, are you prone to lose the odd hook to a toothy slough shark? I haven't really fished warmer mixed-species rivers like this, so curious how others approach it.
__________________ An awful lot of big game was killed with the .30-06 including the big bears before everyone became affluent enough to own a rifle for every species of game they might hunt.
Curious about setup you folks use in a river like the N. Sask. I am waaaayyyyy down south, so not familiar with your waters at all, but assume there are some pike in there too. If you are using "lighter" leader/tippet, targeting walleye or browns, are you prone to lose the odd hook to a toothy slough shark? I haven't really fished warmer mixed-species rivers like this, so curious how others approach it.
Hasnt been an issue for me personally, although I usually just run a 5 foot section of 12lb mono from my tip to the fly. Havent had any lost pike yet, but I think I have just been lucky. I have lost a lot of flies to rocks/logs.
In the 80s a million brown fry were put in between DV and Ft. Sask. Unfortunately that spring / Summer saw one of the worst floods the NSR had seen in years. They are throuout the river and every now and then someone tags one. I would think that the general size of them and I've seen many would indicate natural reproduction.
I've heard many a tale about historic stocking attempts in the South Sask system (specifically Oldman below the dam), and various reports of lingering numbers of browns venturing quite some distance downstream these many years later... into Lethbridge and beyond. I would guess the success (or lack thereof) of these "college tries" would be similar to what one could expect in the NSR.
Hybrid Mode
