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[Captain Hook-set]

On the River Philip using small floating Rapala's do I by law need to remove one of the two treble hooks??

Thanks!

Jeff

[Stradicman]

Only if it say's single hook lures.

[Captain Hook-set]

Stradicman, on 25 April 2012 - 11:10 PM, said:

Only if it say's single hook lures.

I had someone say it was single hook only but I can't find it anywhere in the regs...

[Stradicman]

I thought it was fly only until may 14th then after that anything goes until Aug 31.Usually special trout management areas have single lure only but i dont see river philip listed as a single hook lure area.I like taking off one of the hook's anyway's to make them easier to handle and where i fish west river antigonish it's the law.

[Captain Hook-set]

Thank you! I just found out this morning that it used to be one hook but then they dropped the one hook rule and made it Fly fishing only from the Spencer bridge downstream, All tackle is legal upstream but no live bait until May 15...

Cheers!
Jeff

[Troutnut]

Any browns around the river?

[Captain Hook-set]

I've yet to get one but my buddy got a 16"...

Cheers!
Jeff

[Troutnut]

Might be one of Sunday's options!

Thanks!

[Snoop]

I got a 19 inch rainbow opening day from just above the hatchery, and my buddy got a 17.5 inch rainbow out of the same hole a few days later . No browns though.

[SalmonFarmsKill]

Snoop, on 07 May 2012 - 07:59 AM, said:

I got a 19 inch rainbow opening day from just above the hatchery, and my buddy got a 17.5 inch rainbow out of the same hole a few days later . No browns though.

I would love to see the pitures of those if caught in the Phillip . Do you have pitures???

[Captain Hook-set]

Snoop, on 07 May 2012 - 07:59 AM, said:

I got a 19 inch rainbow opening day from just above the hatchery, and my buddy got a 17.5 inch rainbow out of the same hole a few days later . No browns though.

Are you sure they were Rainbows?? Were they kept or released?? Do you have pictures??


Cheers!
Jeff

[salmon are forever!]

hey don't anybody remember HEARING about the 31 inch brown Danny Ripley caught in 2011 on the phillip

I've heard of them but never caught one myself in river phillip I did though catch a 16 inch brookie last fall at town pool

[Robbie Hiltz]

I saw a pic if it Justin. A real brute. Mike Bardsly hooked a nice one 2 years ago as well

[trutta]

Robbie Hiltz, on 14 February 2013 - 07:33 PM, said:

I saw a pic if it Justin. A real brute. Mike Bardsly hooked a nice one 2 years ago as well

Captain Hook-set, on 07 May 2012 - 06:33 PM, said:

Are you sure they were Rainbows?? Were they kept or released?? Do you have pictures??


Cheers!
Jeff

Used to be a Rainbow farm up river, maybe it's still there? There was a small stream providing water to the ponds. We took a tour in middle July one year with friends and I could see many inch long juvenile escapees in the stream, and even puddles below the cement pens. With a flush of water they were off to the races.

One spring on opening day there were a bunch of guys from New brunswick fishing salmon egg sacks at the former Gravel Pit Pool. I say former because in the infinite wisdom of the authorities a wing damn was installed to prevent erosion. The result! The ruination of the major summer holding pool on the upper river. No pool any more.

Anyway, the NB boys had 15 rainbows on a stringer (average 15") by shore when I arrived about an hour after daylight. I couldn't believe it. I had never seen a Rainbow? Definitely returning escapees IMO. With the aquaculture industry you just never know? Two years later I hooked my first rainbow above the Strawberry Run, and lost it in the rocks. I really wanted to eat that fish!

Yes there are some beautiful Sea Run Brookies as well. But few and far between. One story says 21" but I didn't see it. I released one above the town pool in salmon season that was 5" deep.

And by the way Danny Ripley's 31" Brown on RP is surely a trophy. Too bad we can't post dead fish pic's on this site! I would show you some like that. Hope that doesn't get me in trouble.