They're DEAD in Obed!

[sendmethem]

I recently fished Obed Lake for the first time. Was disappointed to see four large browns (5-8lbs) dead at the bottom near a popular fishing spot. I know recently guys are posting several photos of nice browns from here. Does this lake winter kill or are these most likely the result of handling mortality?

[HuyFishin]

Damn sad if true 😢

[Drewski Canuck]

Obed is a funny lake. Imagine a deep channel of about 30 fow with long flats of about 6 fow. There is a section on the east end by the point that has deeper water, quite close to shore, but that's it.

Used to have no perch, and was stocked with rainbows and brookies, until it became a Brown Trout project, likely because of the perch.

Brookies never did reproduce naturally, even though there was some rock and gravel on the east end. A Real pity.

If the reset was hard enough, and the perch are gone, perhaps wait a year and restock with some brookies, rainbows and tigers?

The Browns were hard to catch at the best of times.

Drewski

[SNAPFisher]

Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck

Obed is a funny lake. Imagine a deep channel of about 30 fow with long flats of about 6 fow. There is a section on the east end by the point that has deeper water, quite close to shore, but that's it.

Used to have no perch, and was stocked with rainbows and brookies, until it became a Brown Trout project, likely because of the perch.

Brookies never did reproduce naturally, even though there was some rock and gravel on the east end. A Real pity.

If the reset was hard enough, and the perch are gone, perhaps wait a year and restock with some brookies, rainbows and tigers?

The Browns were hard to catch at the best of times.

Drewski

Not that there are a ton of brown trout lakes but I like the bow and tiger combo. That could kick that lake up a notch!

[EZM]

That would be a shame.

The whole attraction to that lake was Browns. And because most people found them very hard to catch, you don't get as much traffic in there as you might in other lakes that size near the highway.

Stocking more bows and introducing tigers would bring 10 times the people into that lake. The tigers would also likely over compete with the existing trout that are in there as well.

I would restock browns.

Just my opinion.

[Smoky buck]

No rainbows keep it as a brown fishery

There is enough rainbow trout fisheries

[hawk-i]

Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck

Obed is a funny lake. Imagine a deep channel of about 30 fow with long flats of about 6 fow. There is a section on the east end by the point that has deeper water, quite close to shore, but that's it.

Used to have no perch, and was stocked with rainbows and brookies, until it became a Brown Trout project, likely because of the perch.

Brookies never did reproduce naturally, even though there was some rock and gravel on the east end. A Real pity.

If the reset was hard enough, and the perch are gone, perhaps wait a year and restock with some brookies, rainbows and tigers?

The Browns were hard to catch at the best of times.

Drewski

Whats a fow?

[35 whelen]

Originally Posted by hawk-i

Whats a fow?

Feet of water

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[SamSteele]

Proof that they aren’t dead.

[HuyFishin]

Why so small??

[SNAPFisher]

Sam, if you don't stop posting amazing fish pictures your are going to make me get out there... keep posting!

Congrats on all the great fish this spring. Jealous for sure but pleased to see it all. You are one of the bright spots on this forum.

Cheers!

[SamSteele]

Originally Posted by SNAPFisher

Sam, if you don't stop posting amazing fish pictures your are going to make me get out there... keep posting!

Congrats on all the great fish this spring. Jealous for sure but pleased to see it all. You are one of the bright spots on this forum.

Cheers!

You should probably get out fishing. Just saying!

Thanks for the kind words. I like posting pics and getting others motivated to get out and chase some fish.

This was my fifth trip, with the four previous trips being each 10 hour days of solid fishing. I was running out of tomato juice required to wash the skunk smell off.

[FishnutzJR]

Well, I’ve spent too many hours to count on this lake now. What do people use? I’ve tried spoons raps plugs spinners scuds leeches minnow patterns you name it. This lake is the bane of my existence now🤣

[Dielbo]

Originally Posted by sendmethem

I recently fished Obed Lake for the first time. Was disappointed to see four large browns (5-8lbs) dead at the bottom near a popular fishing spot. I know recently guys are posting several photos of nice browns from here. Does this lake winter kill or are these most likely the result of handling mortality?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's handling mortality. So many people are insistent on taking selfies with every single fish they catch. Then they use terrible handling techniques like sticking their fingers under the gill plate , lipping them or squeezing them like a nearly empty tube of toothpaste. Just because it's alive when you release it doesn't mean it won't be dead soon after you've manhandled the living hell out of it.

[McLeod]

Originally Posted by Dielbo

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's handling mortality. So many people are insistent on taking selfies with every single fish they catch. Then they use terrible handling techniques like sticking their fingers under the gill plate , lipping them or squeezing them like a nearly empty tube of toothpaste. Just because it's alive when you release it doesn't mean it won't be dead soon after you've manhandled the living hell out of it.

As I said earlier this happens every year and i hvae seen it right back to the 70s.
There is some winter kill in that lake plus their is a disease there that some fish die from.

[Dielbo]

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