1. Lake Trout Fishing Ontario Canada
2. Ontario Lake Trout Season

In 1988, there were 10 division-wide lake trout open seasons in Ontario and over 50% of the lakes had the same season (Olver 1988). Currently there are twelve division-wide. For lake trout and splake, the minimum size limit is 10” and the season is open for the entire year unless otherwise noted in the table below. The daily possession limit for lake trout and splake is 5 in any combination, but no more than 3 of any one species, EXCEPT in Lake Superior, as noted below. Charlevoix Rogers City. There is a slot size for walleye on Minnitaki Lake, including Abram, Duck, Hidden, Pelican, Botsford Lakes and the English River, Red Pine Bay, and Rice River. Walleye and Sauger - none between 46-53 cm (18.1-20.9 in.), not more than one greater than 53 cm (20.9 in.). No person may possess any live fish taken by angling other than baitfish. Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada. Fly into Beautiful Trout Lake for a Great Fishing Trip! Trout Lake is a 98,500 acre fly-in lake, connected to Otter and Little Trout Lakes - no portaging is necessary. All three lakes have a combined size of over 100,000 acres with over 200 islands. These lakes have very diverse structure with shallow weedy bays.

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Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush,lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Those caught with dark coloration may be called mud hens.^[2]

Range[edit]

From a zoogeographical perspective, lake trout have a relatively narrow distribution. They are native only to the northern parts of North America, principally Canada, but also Alaska and, to some extent, the northeastern United States.^[3] Lake trout have been widely introduced into non-native waters in North America^[4] and into many other parts of the world, mainly Europe, but also into South America and certain parts of Asia. Although lake trout were introduced into Yellowstone National Park's Shoshone, Lewis and Heart lakes legally in the 1890s, they were illegally or accidentally introduced into Yellowstone Lake in the 1980s where they are now considered invasive.^[5]

Description[edit]

Lake trout are the largest of the chars; the record weighed almost 102 pounds (46 kg) (netted) with a length of 50 inches (130 cm), and 15–40-pound (6.8–18.1-kilogram) fish are not uncommon. The average length is 24–36 inches (61–91 centimetres). The largest caught on a rod and reel according to the IGFA was 72 pounds (33 kg), caught in Great Bear Lake in 1995 with a length of 59 inches (150 cm).^[6]

Life history[edit]

Lake trout inhabit cold, oxygen-rich waters. They are pelagic during the period of summer stratification in dimictic lakes, often living at depths of 20–60 m (66–197 ft).

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The lake trout is a slow-growing fish, typical of oligotrophic waters. It is also very late to mature. Populations are extremely susceptible to overfishing. Many native lake trout populations have been severely damaged through the combined effects of hatchery stocking (planting) and over harvest.

There are three subspecies of lake trout. There is the common lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush namaycush), the siscowet lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush siscowet), and the less common rush lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush huronicus). Some lakes do not have pelagicforage fish during the period of summer stratification. In these lakes, lake trout take on a life history known as planktivory. Lake trout in planktivorous populations are highly abundant, grow very slowly and mature at relatively small sizes. In those lakes that do contain deep-water forage, lake trout become piscivorous. Piscivorous lake trout grow much more quickly, mature at a larger size and are less abundant. Notwithstanding differences in abundance, the density of biomass of lake trout is fairly consistent in similar lakes, regardless of whether the lake trout populations they contain are planktivorous or piscivorous.^{[citation needed]}

In Lake Superior, common lake trout (S. n. namaycush) and siscowet lake trout (S. n. siscowet) live together. Common lake trout tend to stay in shallower waters, while siscowet lake trout stay in deeper water. Common lake trout (also called 'lean' lake trout) are slimmer than the relatively fat siscowet. Siscowet numbers have become greatly depressed over the years due to a combination of the extirpation of some of the fish's deep water coregonine prey and to overexploitation. Siscowet tend to grow extremely large and fat and attracted great commercial interest in the last century. Their populations have rebounded since 1970, with one estimate putting the number in Lake Superior at 100 million.^[7]

Hybrids[edit]

Lake trout are known to hybridize in nature with the brook trout; such hybrids, known as 'splake', are normally sterile but self-sustaining populations exist in some lakes.^[8] Splake are also artificially propagated in hatcheries, and then stocked into lakes in an effort to provide sport-fishing opportunities.^[9]

Commercial fishing[edit]

Lake trout were fished commercially in the Great Lakes until lampreys, overharvest and pollution extirpated or severely reduced the stocks. Commercial fisheries still exist in some areas of the Great Lakes and smaller lakes in northern Canada. Commercial fishing by Ojibwe for Lake Trout in the Lake Superior is permitted under various treaties and regulated by the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC).^[10]

Origin of name[edit]

The specific epithetnamaycush derives from namekush, a form of the word used in some inland Southern East Cree communities in referring to this species of fish. Other variations found in East Cree are kûkamâs[h], kûkamâw and kûkamesh.^[11] Similar cognate words are found in Ojibwe: namegos = 'lake trout'; namegoshens = 'rainbow trout', literally meaning 'little lake trout'.^[12]

Popular culture[edit]

Geneva, New York claims the title 'Lake Trout Capital of the World,' and holds an annual lake trout fishing derby.^[13]

References[edit]

1. ^'Salvelinus namaycush'. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
2. ^'Mud Hens??'. Lake Ontario United - Lake Ontario's Largest Fishing & Hunting Community - New York and Ontario Canada.
3. ^'Salvelinus namaycush Lake trout'. Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
4. ^'NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Lake Trout'. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
5. ^Munro, Andrew R.; Thomas E. McMahon; James R. Ruzycki (Spring 2006). 'Source and Date of Lake Trout Introduction'(PDF). Yellowstone Science. 14 (2).
6. ^'International Game Fish Association-Lake Trout'. International Game Fish Association. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
7. ^Moen, Sharon (December 2002). 'Siscowet Trout: A Plague of Riches'. Minnesota Sea Grant. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
8. ^Berst, A. H.; Ihssen, P. E.; Spangler, G. R.; Ayles, G. B.; Martin, G. W. (1980). 'The splake, a hybrid charr Salvelinus namaycush x S. fontinalis.'. In Balon, E. K. (ed.). Charrs, Salmonid Fishes of the Genus Salvelinus. The Hague: Dr. W. Junk Publishers. pp. 841–887.
9. ^'Why Splake?'. Maine.gov Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
10. ^'Lake Superior Treaty Fishery'. Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
11. ^Berkes, Fikret and Marguerite MacKenzie. 'Cree Fish Names from Eastern James Bay, Quebec' in Arctic, Vol. 31, No. 4 (December 1978), pp. 489-495
12. ^Weshki-ayaad, Lippert and Gambill. Freelang Ojibwe Dictionary Online. Accessed September 21, 2010.
13. ^Lake trout derby, Geneva, NY Accessed September 29, 2010.

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Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush,lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Those caught with dark coloration may be called mud hens.^[2]

Range[edit]

From a zoogeographical perspective, lake trout have a relatively narrow distribution. They are native only to the northern parts of North America, principally Canada, but also Alaska and, to some extent, the northeastern United States.^[3] Lake trout have been widely introduced into non-native waters in North America^[4] and into many other parts of the world, mainly Europe, but also into South America and certain parts of Asia. Although lake trout were introduced into Yellowstone National Park's Shoshone, Lewis and Heart lakes legally in the 1890s, they were illegally or accidentally introduced into Yellowstone Lake in the 1980s where they are now considered invasive.^[5]

Description[edit]

Lake trout are the largest of the chars; the record weighed almost 102 pounds (46 kg) (netted) with a length of 50 inches (130 cm), and 15–40-pound (6.8–18.1-kilogram) fish are not uncommon. The average length is 24–36 inches (61–91 centimetres). The largest caught on a rod and reel according to the IGFA was 72 pounds (33 kg), caught in Great Bear Lake in 1995 with a length of 59 inches (150 cm).^[6]

Life history[edit]

Lake trout inhabit cold, oxygen-rich waters. They are pelagic during the period of summer stratification in dimictic lakes, often living at depths of 20–60 m (66–197 ft).

The lake trout is a slow-growing fish, typical of oligotrophic waters. It is also very late to mature. Populations are extremely susceptible to overfishing. Many native lake trout populations have been severely damaged through the combined effects of hatchery stocking (planting) and over harvest.

There are three subspecies of lake trout. There is the common lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush namaycush), the siscowet lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush siscowet), and the less common rush lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush huronicus). Some lakes do not have pelagicforage fish during the period of summer stratification. In these lakes, lake trout take on a life history known as planktivory. Lake trout in planktivorous populations are highly abundant, grow very slowly and mature at relatively small sizes. In those lakes that do contain deep-water forage, lake trout become piscivorous. Piscivorous lake trout grow much more quickly, mature at a larger size and are less abundant. Notwithstanding differences in abundance, the density of biomass of lake trout is fairly consistent in similar lakes, regardless of whether the lake trout populations they contain are planktivorous or piscivorous.^{[citation needed]}

In Lake Superior, common lake trout (S. n. namaycush) and siscowet lake trout (S. n. siscowet) live together. Common lake trout tend to stay in shallower waters, while siscowet lake trout stay in deeper water. Common lake trout (also called 'lean' lake trout) are slimmer than the relatively fat siscowet. Siscowet numbers have become greatly depressed over the years due to a combination of the extirpation of some of the fish's deep water coregonine prey and to overexploitation. Siscowet tend to grow extremely large and fat and attracted great commercial interest in the last century. Their populations have rebounded since 1970, with one estimate putting the number in Lake Superior at 100 million.^[7]

Hybrids[edit]

Lake trout are known to hybridize in nature with the brook trout; such hybrids, known as 'splake', are normally sterile but self-sustaining populations exist in some lakes.^[8] Splake are also artificially propagated in hatcheries, and then stocked into lakes in an effort to provide sport-fishing opportunities.^[9]

Commercial fishing[edit]

Lake trout were fished commercially in the Great Lakes until lampreys, overharvest and pollution extirpated or severely reduced the stocks. Commercial fisheries still exist in some areas of the Great Lakes and smaller lakes in northern Canada. Commercial fishing by Ojibwe for Lake Trout in the Lake Superior is permitted under various treaties and regulated by the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC).^[10]

Origin of name[edit]

The specific epithetnamaycush derives from namekush, a form of the word used in some inland Southern East Cree communities in referring to this species of fish. Other variations found in East Cree are kûkamâs[h], kûkamâw and kûkamesh.^[11] Similar cognate words are found in Ojibwe: namegos = 'lake trout'; namegoshens = 'rainbow trout', literally meaning 'little lake trout'.^[12]

Popular culture[edit]

Doubleu casino how to win real money. Geneva, New York claims the title 'Lake Trout Capital of the World,' and holds an annual lake trout fishing derby.^[13]

Lake Trout Fishing Ontario Canada

References[edit]

1. ^'Salvelinus namaycush'. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
2. ^'Mud Hens??'. Lake Ontario United - Lake Ontario's Largest Fishing & Hunting Community - New York and Ontario Canada.
3. ^'Salvelinus namaycush Lake trout'. Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
4. ^'NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Lake Trout'. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
5. ^Munro, Andrew R.; Thomas E. McMahon; James R. Ruzycki (Spring 2006). 'Source and Date of Lake Trout Introduction'(PDF). Yellowstone Science. 14 (2).
6. ^'International Game Fish Association-Lake Trout'. International Game Fish Association. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
7. ^Moen, Sharon (December 2002). 'Siscowet Trout: A Plague of Riches'. Minnesota Sea Grant. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
8. ^Berst, A. H.; Ihssen, P. E.; Spangler, G. R.; Ayles, G. B.; Martin, G. W. (1980). 'The splake, a hybrid charr Salvelinus namaycush x S. fontinalis.'. In Balon, E. K. (ed.). Charrs, Salmonid Fishes of the Genus Salvelinus. The Hague: Dr. W. Junk Publishers. pp. 841–887.
9. ^'Why Splake?'. Maine.gov Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
10. ^'Lake Superior Treaty Fishery'. Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
11. ^Berkes, Fikret and Marguerite MacKenzie. 'Cree Fish Names from Eastern James Bay, Quebec' in Arctic, Vol. 31, No. 4 (December 1978), pp. 489-495
12. ^Weshki-ayaad, Lippert and Gambill. Freelang Ojibwe Dictionary Online. Accessed September 21, 2010.
13. ^Lake trout derby, Geneva, NY Accessed September 29, 2010.

External links[edit]

Ontario Lake Trout Season