FLYFISH
AMERICA
Most often, when we think about a trout's diet we tend to imagine
streamlined fish, inhaling nymphs, or sipping gossamer insects. Sometimes
we might expand these images to include the gobbling up of a hapless
grasshopper, or possibly we picture the swift ambush into a school
of minnows. But in the far north, a land almost devoid of mayflies,
hoppers and minnows, the legendary brook trout have survived, indeed
thrived, upon a diet that includes other brook trout. And these are
not just small, immature, trout parr. When landing one-pound trout
it is not unusual to glimpse one of the speckled giants in hot pursuit
of the smaller, struggling fish.! (More
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WOODS
AND WATERS Labrador’s
Northern Pike By Len Rich
Barry Acton, cameraman for The New Fly Fisher television show, had
the camera rolling as my large jointed lemming fly skittered over
the slow moving water of Second Rattle. The big guy we called “the
bear”sat in the front of my long Gander River boat which was anchored
in the pool. (More
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