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[Piranha]

started fly fishing at 7am and fish on. Fished up untipl 2:30pm and landed 8 fish, lost over 20 near my boat and had bites from when i started up until i left. There were 3 other fisherman spin casting with no luck at all.  I tied some giant leeches last night and the fish were going crazy for this leech. Pumped fishs stomach and seen that it still had live chironomids and some red spider mite like bugs. The fish could not resist my giant red ruby-eyed snake leech.   fun times

[Snapperhead]

Good to hear you did well.

Last time I was there,the garbage cans were overflowing with garbage all over the place and the Parks guy didn't give a rats my friend BUT really was concerned about us paying the $9 camping fee.
I asked about him maybe removing the garbage but he didn't and drove away with a empty truck bed.

We use to do really well with burgandy leeches on the far side around the logs.

[dan-o]

i saw the same "red spider mite like bugs" at edith and stump last week, can anyone tell me what they are? they were all over the lake but didn't seem to slow the fish down alot from biting my leech. again, pumped a stomach to find alot of them.

[GENERAL-SHERMAN]

daphnia?

[capman]

Piranha, I tried Cat lake in Squamish last year and did not even have a bite. Were U using float or sinking line and was it around the sholes?
Thank you in advance.

[Rodney]

Capman, you did not hook any last year because Cat Lake has not been stocked with catchable rainbow trout since 2005. The fish Piranha encountered are most likely Cheakamus hatchery steelhead fry (2,933 fish at roughly 30g each) that were released in spring 2007.

[capman]

Thanks for the info Rod.

[Piranha]

I was using a sinking line and troling slowly along the drop offs.



why would they release steelhead in Cat lake? the biggest fish i caught was about 16 inches and jumped right out of the water 3 times in a row. the fish looked like rainbow to me.  all fish had faint red line from gills to fin and dots above the line more prominent than on the bottom.


Also are there turtes or beavers in the lake? Something bit hard and started pulling my boat out into the middle about 5 minutes later with no luck of realing in the line and the monster  i felt few head shakes and the hook came lose. The lake must have a giant steelhead on steroids living there or a loch ness monster 

[Rodney]

why would they release steelhead in Cat lake?

After the CN Rail caustic soda spill on the Cheakamus River several years ago, which damaged three generations of steelhead population at various degrees, the Ministry of Environment decided to enhance the population by a small amount of hatchery supplement. The last couple of years, several pairs (ten if I remember correctly) of adult steelhead have been taken to the Fraser Valley Trout Hatchery and their offsprings are raised. The Ministry of Environment is only allowing a certain number of hatchery raised offsprings to be released back into the Cheakamus River, so the rest of the juveniles that are not released into the river are put into Cat Lake.

[dereke]

  Good to hear you had some fish over 10 inches. Last time out the fish were plentiful but nothing of size....good job