Dead fish at Finkle's

Roblin · **Joined:** Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:53 pm **Posts:** 842

My wife and I stopped by Finkle's today.

Water is up quite a bit. The hole is still there.

Lot's a dead and dying fingerlings. They look like Pike on the bottom beside the ramp. I couldn't get my hands on one without swimming.

There were some jumping out of the water at the same spot. There were probably a couple of dozen dead and all appeared to be the same species and different sizes (years ?).

Never seen that.

threept · **Joined:** Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:09 pm **Posts:** 25

Looking like lake trout to me but can only zoom in so much

Roblin · **Joined:** Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:53 pm **Posts:** 842

They were quite long and narrow with dark vertical bands. Closest picture I googled was Pike. I did look a Lake Trout, maybe they are.
I'm puzzled as to why all the different sizes of the apparent same species dying in the same spot at the same time.
The only other idea I came up with was someone dumping fish that had been caught or raised elsewhere and they didn't survive.
Wonder if the MNR stocks fish there.
They definitely look like game fish.

I think this picture is a bit better.

Walleyeone · **Joined:** Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:05 am **Posts:** 234

These are trout, they are from the recent stocking the ministry does from Finkle's Shore. There is a bit of a mortality rate with the little ones.. Fyi Tom

Roblin · **Joined:** Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:53 pm **Posts:** 842

Thank you.

horsehunter · **Joined:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:14 am **Posts:** 387

What kind of trout were stocked at finkles and when?

I'm guessing if there were dying trout still there on wed they must have been stocked tues or wed.
I spoke to someone from the Napanee club and they stock their browns there in the fall.
they look to bee a LOT SMALLER than the browns that were stocked at Athol Bay a couple of weeks ago

Walleyeone · **Joined:** Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:05 am **Posts:** 234

I spoke with a ministry y he looked at the post and supplied the info. I'm not sure when they did this.

Roblin · **Joined:** Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:53 pm **Posts:** 842

I never knew the MNR stocked trout there. Great to see!!

Thanks for the info.

BigMac · **Joined:** Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:18 pm **Posts:** 1383

I didn’t know that either. I do know they stock at main duck and also off Amherst. No shortage of laker stocking.

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Deepfriedwalleye · **Joined:** Sat Feb 13, 2016 8:56 pm **Posts:** 122

Iam confused I thought when you stock trout it had to be in a tributary like a creek say millhaven creek
So when they spawn they go back to that creek Can someone confirm this? I maybe wrong

apmikel · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:07 pm **Posts:** 232

Lake trout spawn on gravel beaches in the fall.

Trannyman1 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:40 pm

apmikel wrote:

Lake trout spawn on gravel beaches in the fall.

There has been research done that proves that somme browns do spawn on big gravel shoals in the Great Lakes.
Also I have caught them with roe bags on some of these shoals in February still full of eggs.

Al

Perchslayer666 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:02 pm

I've caught lake trout in the fall up rivers with spawning salmon and steelhead....

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