Those are dandy trout!! 

I still have vivid memories of fishing The Park with my dad in the 70s. Those are important lessons you're teaching your son. Congratulations to both of you.

Windymaple wrote:

Those are dandy trout!! 

I still have vivid memories of fishing The Park with my dad in the 70s. Those are important lessons you're teaching your son. Congratulations to both of you.

I agree with you about the important lessons. Thank you sir!

Cheers
 

vanslyke wrote:

Wow!
I just got back from the park and caught my first brookie, it was about 2lbs...i thought it was a decent one...but now...
Congrats on getting on them so well! Great pics and great to see a kid excited about fishing 👍🏻

Thanks! And there's certainly nothing wrong with a 2lb brookie! My son is absolutely addicted, I take him with me all the time.
 

Moonman wrote:

That's just awesome catching those beauties with your son. Yes he is spoiled for life now! I have actually seen some of your writing before but cannot remember where now. Its also great you got such great pictures. Memories for a lifetime - well done!

Moonman.

Thanks! I wrote for Ontario Out Of Doors for some time so perhaps there? I have a website now where all of my travel is chronicled and am in the process of launching my own magazine, www.canadafishingguide.net

My son has been spoiled for a while now LOL! I travel across Canada visiting remote fishing camps and writing about the experience and he's joined me many times. This summer he's coming with me twice to two different camps in far northern Manitoba. He doesn't really "get it" now at the age of 10 how fortunate he is, but he will.

Was Hardcore wrote:

Hey Mike didn't know you posted here as well. I m sure Dave told you that our biologist friend truly believes that the big fish you are catching are some of the biggest specks he has ever seen taken from the park and this includes netting and spawning observations while diving over a coarse of 50 years on almost every lake in the park. Good thing it looks like a trip for younger men than I else you would never hear the end of my begging for location.

Hey man, I'm not going to tell you, but if I can do it, I'll bet you can. Sheer force of will is a powerful thing.
I've talked to a few different people about what we accomplished. I already knew just how rare it was, but that has certainly been confirmed in spades. My kid totally thinks it's normal LOL! He may never catch brook trout that big for the rest of his life unless we do Labrador or the Sutton.

I just MIGHT know the lake.  About 10 years ago, my 3 buddies and I came upon a lake where all we caught were speckled trout in the 5 lb. range.  Nice fish for sure (all released), but we didn't catch anything smaller which to me was bad because it doesn't look like spawning was working in this lake.  I was wondering if you in fact caught some small specks in the lake you were fishing.  I hope so!

Good god. I'm so very happy to see this and it is so respectful of you to release these trophies. You sir are a true sportsman and may have helped to influence your son to be the same. Congratulations.

Well I just finished reading the OOD article about the FOI request solopaddler.

I can't believe someone would actually do that...

This is the reason people stop posting photos and videos like the ones you shared.

I enjoy seeing and reading these types of things and unfortunately someone who refuses, or is just plain too lazy to put the effort into going to try and find something for themselves is going to ruin it for people like me.

I appreciate you having shared this with us originally and I'm sorry this is/has happened...

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Unfortunately the request will probably be successful eventually. The rationale for FOI requests is to provide people information that the government is holding. The context of why they want it is not particularly important. It will be anonymized with personal information blacked out but the lakes camped on are not personal information.