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mouth of the place where Stevens Creek empties into a small branch of the Rideau River near the Village of Kars.
We tried a similar spot where a small creek runs into
the Rideau River at “Little Chesterville”, just south of Osgoode. Even though I have seen many of the locals fishing these same locations from shore, we didn’t see a mud pout all afternoon. We were, however, successful at catching about 200 yellow perch. Leland had lots of fun (at the expense of his father and grandfather) baiting worms and removing the fish from his hook. The lesson to be learned is that you are more likely
to be successful at catching mud pout later in the day when the perch and crappies are at rest. When you’re fishing late in the evening you will need an adequate source of light to enable you to re-tie hooks. For some reason these fish are very proficient at swallowing almost everything that is presented to them. Or, as they say: “hook, line and sinker”. Generally, mud pout will not exceed two pounds.
In fact, here in the Ottawa area along the shores of the Rideau River, they mainly range in the one-pound-plus weight class. The technique used to fillet these fish is somewhat different from the way you would fillet a walleye, pike
or trout. Rather than going into the details here, there are a couple of very good YouTube instructional videos that you can examine if you do a Google search: “How to clean barbotte”. There’s still time to get out and catch a few mud pout
before the summer sun warms up the river waters beyond the ideal temperature. Once you try eating them, just as my family and I
do, you too will wait in anticipation each spring. There is nothing more enjoyable than smelling and tasting a few freshly caught barbotte fillets that have been dipped into some egg yolks, dragged through a little batter mix, and then quickly cooked on an iron skillet to a golden brown colour. Bon appétit!
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