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Salmon Cannon Launches Fish Over Dams
Fall Update Bulletin
The executive of Ontario Steelheaders (OSH) is pleased to announce to our members, the new equipment SWAP PAGE located on the OSH website. Now members will be able to post and sell those old fishing related items that have been stored in the basement, garage, shed, etc., for all those years !! This is a free service to our members so please use it and post your items and encourage family and friends to join the OSH and utilize all the benefits we offer. (A special Thank You to Scott Kidwell, our website manager for his excellent work on this project).
Simple to use: All members interested in using the service need to LOGIN on our website using your email address and password to post a new classified ad. If you have never logged into your account or forgotten your password, you can use the password reset utility to reset your password. When creating a classified ad, please enter all title, description and contact details and you may include up to six photos. You will receive a special code by email which will allow you to go back in and edit and remove your post.
This coming Saturday Oct 11th, there will be a potluck supper at the Rod Jones Pavilion starting a 6:00pm. Everyone wishing to attend, please bring a food item of your choice. Shortly after our meal, a new plaque will be unveiled to honour and remember “Those Who Have Blessed Our Lives and Graced Our Park”. In tribute, we are asking members would like to display a plaque of a loved one or friend of whom was a past member to follow a couple of simple rules. Plaque will a maximum of 3″ x 5″ and display the person’s name only – NO DATES or IN MEMORY OF. The cost of the plaque will the responsibility of each individual.
Hope to see you all there !!!!
David Allen, Media & News Director
Annual Saugeen River 2014 Fall Steelhead Trout Derby
The Ontario Steelheaders Annual Fall Steelhead Derby on the Saugeen River is coming soon and we welcome all members and non-members to come enjoy a day of fun with family and friends for a friendly competition of who can land the biggest steelhead trout of the day.
After the derby ends, dinner is served at the Rod Jones Pavilion, where we have draw-prizes, raffles, merchandise, club updates, guest speakers, derby prizes and biggest steelhead trout trophies are awarded.
New Derby Rules
We have a couple new rules this year:
- Last Call: A new rule is forth coming to our future derby’s – we are going to sound off an air horn 1.5 hours to the weight in deadline and a final long horn blast for the 10 minute warning for the final derby weigh-in. Hopefully this will eliminate any future problems with people having different times on the watches, etc.
- Weight: As well every person that weights a fish in will have the opportunity to weigh their fish 3 times, with the scale provided by the Steelheaders. No other scales will be excepted.
Details
Date
Fall Derby: October 18 2014Time
Derby: 7:00AM – 5:00PMDinner served at 5:30PM
Raffle & ceremony at 6:00PM
Entry Fee
Price: $10 donation*Price subject to change.
**You do not need to be a club member to enter the derby. Anyone is welcome.
Questions & Donations
Submit questions and prize donations to derby director, Scott Redin.Camping
Overnight amping is available at the Denny’s Dam Park located on the Saugeen River. Members and non-members are invited to camp with tent, travel trailer or RV for the event. For more information, see the park page.
Map & Directions
The Saugeen River derby is held at Denny’s Dam Park on the Saugeen River near Southampton Ontario.
Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame Announces 2015 Class of Inductees
Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame – Hayward, Wisconsin (Released on September 15th, 2014)
The Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame (The Hall) is the international headquarters for education, recognition and promotion of fresh water sportfishing. Each year The Hall recognizes individuals, groups and organizations for their impact benefiting fresh water angling. Individuals and organizations are honored for outstanding achievements in fishing accomplishments regarding career success and innovation in competition, invention, science, education, conservation, communications, technology or other areas related to fresh water sportfishing. Recently the awards committee enshrined their 2015 class, seventeen individuals and one organization, to join the elite fraternity that currently occupies a place at The Hall.
Selection Committee:
Wade Bourne – Tennessee; Clem Dippel – Wisconsin; Dr. Michael Dombeck – Wisconsin; Dr. James Gammon – Indiana; Elmer Guerri – Indiana; Dr. Todd Larson – Ohio; Tim Lesmeister – Minnesota; David Rainer – Alabama; Sharon Rushton – Missouri; Wendy Williamson – Wisconsin; Gregg Wollner – Wisconsin and Forrest Wood – Arkansas.
Darryl Choronzey – (inductee) Canada
Darryl Choronzey started his outdoor writing career in the early 1970’s freelance writing for the cross-Canada Globe and Mail newspaper, the Toronto Sun and Ontario’s syndicated Inland Publishing Group. For more than 20 years Choronzey published and edited Ontario Fisherman Magazine during the 1980’s and ’90’s. A little more than a decade ago Choronzey approached the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources with a plan to improve and enhance the fishing opportunities on the Lake Huron River for steelhead. Twelve months after that meeting 50,000 eight-inch yearlings were stocked approximately 50 miles upstream of the Saugeen River for perfect imprinting. This program has been operating for the last 10 consecutive years. In 2002, Choronzey was awarded the highly coveted CANADA’S RECREATIONAL FISHERIES AWARD in recognition of improving, protecting and promoting sport fishing in Canada.
Congratulations Darryl – Great Work – proud your part of the Ontario Steelheaders organization !!
Also, two other Canadians were inducted into the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame.
A Day Trip to the Geen
Last Saturday, Sept. 6th, these two young lads did a day trip to the Saugeen for some centerpin fishing and with success. Chase Mooder (13) (L) and Jackson Dupre (14)(R) from the Elmira area spent the day fishing from the dam down to flat rock and yes, Chase caught and landed a female steelhead in the 4lb to 5lb mark. The boys were extremely happy with their catch. I had the opportunity to speak with the boys and we talk a lot about the Ontario Steelheaders and further explained to them on what the club does in the spring and fall to have a strong fishery for all to enjoy. Both were more than impressed.
Also the boys were informed about our fall 2014 derby and the junior category – well their eyes lit up and both said they would be on the river to fish for the trophy. Good luck to you Chase and Jackson. And a special thanks to Jackson’s dad for driving them up to the Saugeen. A pleasure to meet and talk to two young enthusiastic fishing lads. I encouraged them to join the club and become junior members to help strengthen the club and keep the Saugeen River world class fishery status for our future generations.
-David Allen
Saugeen River Fishway Update
Denny’s Dam Fishway: Grant and the LHFC boys who manage the Denny’s Dam fishway have spent the summer cleaning out the fishway as it was jam-packed full of debris from the spring ice blowout. A contractor was called in to help with some of the stubborn pieces of debris. As of August 17th, the water in the Denny’s fishway and live fishcam are running again. The fall adult transfer is all set to go.
Walkerton Denil Fishway: Water is currently too low for assessing the Walkerton fishway. Jody from Owen Sound MNR will be updating the club on the status of Walkerton fishway at the annual fall derby in October.
Creel Surveys Are Being Conducted by Bruce Power
Here is some important information released by Bruce Power. You can download the Bruce Power Lake Huron Creel Survey PDF File
What is a creel survey?
A creel survey consists of a series of questions returning anglers are asked about their fishing effort and catch as well as a measure, weigh and scale sample from their catch. Participation in this survey is optional.
What is the objective?
The objective is to collect data on the recreational fish community and feed this information into the follow up monitoring required by the Bruce Power Units 1 and 2 Refurbishment Environmental Assessment requirements.
When and where are the creel surveys being conducted?
Creel surveys are being conducted in the vicinity of Bruce Power in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), following a standard MNR protocol. Field staff operate from the two closest boat launches to Bruce Power at Baie du Doré and in Inverhuron Provincial Park. Creel surveys began in June and will continue until the end of October. The frequency is six days per week until Labour Day and then three days per week until the end of October. There are day and evening shifts, and the effort is equally distributed between the two locations.
Where does the information collected go and what happens with it?
This information is logged into a database and the dataset is evaluated to see what species of fish and habitat utilization are occurring in the local area over a period of time.
Questions
If you have any questions about the creel survey, please contact John Peevers at 519-361-2673 x6583, email john.peevers@brucepower.com or call the Duty Media Officer at 519 361-6161. Thank you in advance for your support of this Bruce Power project.
Bruce Power Lake Huron Thermal Monitoring
For all of you fisherman out on Lake Huron, here is some important information released from Bruce Power. You can download the following PDF files for more information:
Bruce Power Lake Huron Thermal Monitoring Press Release
Thermal Monitoring Equipment Details – Underwater Diagram and GPS Coordinates.
What and where?
Thermal monitoring is being conducted in the vicinity of Bruce Power via a series of temperature stations.
How many?
There are 33 stations marked with flags (Marker Buoys) and white bumper floats (Data Buoys) at specific locations at various depths.
Two stations are currently being used to monitor water current speeds and direction. The monitors sit on the bottom of the lake and have a mechanical pop-up buoy that must be triggered manually when necessary.
The temperature stations are numbered 1 through 33 and the current monitoring stations are labeled X and Y.
Why?
Temperature monitoring stations are deployed in Lake Huron in the local vicinity of Bruce Power to monitor the extent and duration of the thermal plume.
Monitoring of the thermal plume allows us to verify our predictions of “no significant adverse environmental impacts.”
Questions?
If you have any questions about the monitoring or to report any misplaced or damaged equipment, please contact John Peevers at 519-361-2673 x6583, email john.peevers@brucepower.com or call the Duty Media Officer at 519 361-6161.