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Beaver Ponds
A lot of people may think fishing a beaver pond is no different from fishing a small lake. In some ways this is true an din some ways this is false. Beaver ponds are known to usually hold bigger fish than the stream that flows into and out of it holds, in a lot of cases this is true but sometimes there are only a bunch of little brookies. Beaver ponds are not permanent like lakes and streams. Most of them either get silted in by sediment that settles in the beaver pond, or the beaver dam somehow collapses, draining the pond. They can be created as quickly as they are destroyed, any year there can be over 10 ponds created on a mile of stream. These are usually in meadow stretches of small streams. Beaver ponds can be productive for a few reasons, when the dam is formed, the trout that inhabited that stretch of stream all of a sudden have a shallow pond. It usually floods brush and sometimes small trees creating habitat for insects and cover for fish. With only a limited number of fish in the pond, the ratio of food to fish is in favor of the fish. They are able to eat a lot and grow large, after 5,6 or 7 years, the original fish that were in the stream have died off. these fish have spawned in the inlet and outlet and the ratio of food to fish isn't as good as it once was, resulting in smaller fish. |
The number one thing to remember when fishing a beaver pond is stealth. The water is usually really clear and the fish don't have deep water to run off and hide in. Plus, usually the ground around it is soft and a little mushy, which telegraphs footsteps through the ground and into the pond really well. So walk softly and don't let the fish see you. Sometimes the best fishing come when you are fishing from behind the dam, the reason is the you can crouch down behind the dam and not be seen by the fish. The problem with this technique is your sort of fishing blindly and you will always get your line tangled around the sticks of the dam. |
The number one thing to remember when fishing a beaver pond is stealth. The water is usually really clear and the fish don't have deep water to run off and hide in. Plus, usually the ground around it is soft and a little mushy, which telegraphs footsteps through the ground and into the pond really well. So walk softly and don't let the fish see you. Sometimes the best fishing come when you are fishing from behind the dam, the reason is the you can crouch down behind the dam and not be seen by the fish. The problem with this technique is your sort of fishing blindly and you will always get your line tangled around the sticks of the dam.
This is the part that is similar to lakes, the places fish will hold. The inlet and the outlet are always good places to fish, they will always yield some fish, but the biggest fish will be in other places. They will usually just be cruising around the shore searching for food. Remember, 90% of a trout diet come subsurface. So a nymph will usually be most effective. If you would prefer to use a dry fly, use something big, something like a size 12 Humpy, or Royal Wulff. The fact is, the trout will only come to the surface when he sees a meal worth expending the energy to swim up and take the risk of being caught by an eagle or something. So most of the time the big trout aren't rising to those little size 16 callibaetis duns, but the occasional caddis that falls on the water or flying ant.
Rory McMahon
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