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Wishin’ I was Fishin’...

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Fishing on Lac Heney with Ted Billey

By Liz Stirling/Christine Ouellet He continues: “If you can get onto
the water just as the sun has come
ed Billey always liked being on up and the water has a mist, you
Tthe water. Whether it be teaching feel the lake is all yours. The loons
someone about fishing, fishing with are calling, and the sound carries
another experienced fisherman, along the surface. After rainfall is
sharing tips and fishing stories, or just also a good time and I heard some
by himself in the perfect peaceful, folks follow lunar cycles. I fish for
solitude, being on the water was the bass close to the surface most of the
place to be. summer. For trout, it is deeper as the
fish are looking for certain oxygen
Ted started fishing in his early teens levels and water temperatures which
on the Ottawa River. He didn’t have a can put them at 25-40 feet or deeper.”
boat, but he would take his gear down
to the shore, cast from there, thinking: Ted Billey explains, “There is a
“Boy! If I had a boat, I would catch so good bass fishery, and I rarely get
many fish!” skunked when I go out for bass. I
use worms and bobbers at 5-12 feet
Ted’s older brother took a job near shoals and shores. But for trout,
in northern Canada and sent home
we must throw them back under 18
photos of fish—huge pike and char. inches. Trout don’t reach breeding
These photos inspired him, and he
maturity until 7 years old. That may
went up to Cambridge Bay, north of be why it is taking so much time to
the Arctic Circle, where he fished recover. The big ones are the breeders,
under the Northern lights.
so please throw them back! The lake’s
Trying new spots on a big lake is oxygen, phosphate, and temperature
what he likes best. He says, “I have levels must be in a desirable zone or
yet to fish every spot after six years. trout won’t prosper.”
I bought a bass boat; it was a good
Ted encourages everybody to be
choice. I take my grandson who caught sensitive to others who fish in small
his first fish last year at aged five. So, crafts, share the lake responsibly,
I hope there will be more of “Grampy,
keep their distance, and slow down.
can we go fishing tomorrow?”
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