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Originally Posted by GeneralLeeTPHLS
Thanks for posting this! I also sometimes go wading in creeks and rivers, but for a hobby called geocaching. I've also found just those same things you just mentioned, and usually not much else, other than maybe plastic bits from fishing equipment say, on the Credit River or something. I've never waded the Humber or Rouge rivers, but wouldn't mind trying, even if it gets a bit deeper in the Humber by High Park.
The weather today was warm, 8C and partly cloudy, mostly sunny.
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Do you ever go during the salmon spawn from late September to early November? Always a spectacular sight, even if you’re not fishing. Well, maybe not the part of seeing the all salmon carcasses. But cool when they are splashing around. And perhaps you see the occasional rainbow or brown trout or smallmouth bass. And if you go in April, surely you’ve seen schools of white suckers and then carp here and there in May.
My favourite rivers and their tribs to fish or explore are Grindstone, Sixteen Mile, Credit, Etobicoke and the Rouge.
My weirdest find was a small pig carcass at Erindale Park in the Credit. Don’t know if that was part of a religious thing but the coconuts I would find are. And then last October I found that kids shoulder bag with lego and a 10” tablet on Sixteen Mile. I also found a duckling on the Rouge. Also scooped up perfectly functioning fishing rods and reels when on the lake, along with a football and soccer ball that I kept.
The Rouge and its tribs are fascinating, particularly in North Scarbs, Markham and Pickering. There are several branches and it’s hard to choose where to start. Just north of the zoo is a good start. Some very nice scenery there with valleys and what not but also, the roads around it are fun with all the twists and ups and down. And so traversable as much of it is shallow, but has deep enough pockets to hold fish.
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