DOUG POLLARD
A CASE FOR Hatcheries
The weather on opening day of
trout season can be miserable. Count on it being cold and wet. My first experience of this auspicious day was in Algonquin Park, in 1968. Despite being in Canada almost a year, I had yet to catch a trout since arriving from the old country. My companion, Tom the mailman, would put that right with an event that remains unmatched in my 65 years of fishing. Our destination was Log Canoe
Lake, one of several small lakes encircling Sec Lake in eastern Algonquin Park. After a chilly trip across Sec, we secured the boat and trudged up to Log Canoe. Tom fished lures, I fished wet flies. We went at it hard, but by midday neither of us had had a hit. Too cold, we concluded. Wrong lake, as it turned out.
JEN’S HATCHERY MAP, 1988 64 BOUNDER MAGAZINE
Tom made the executive decision
to move to Little Sec. Half an hour later, we stumbled into an incredible spectacle. All around this tiny lake, brook trout hung from the pines like washing. Every string sagged with fish, many over a pound, some pushing five pounds. We set to immediately, and proceeded to catch some nice fish. At least one five-pounder had been spared, for it followed my fly to the rocky shore, but sank out of sight as we eyed each other in surprise. By now, people were sated and drifting away. We called it quits after a couple of hours with a brace apiece. The quantity of fish taken that
morning was striking, as were their size and sheer beauty. Where had they all come from? Tom assured me that they were all hatchery fish, and that
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