Outdoors: The world's best kept secret (until now)

With the Steelhead season coming to an end, you would think that I would be going through a grieving process as many do when they have to say good-bye to something they love so much.

But on to the Atlantics!

This year's Steelhead season seemed like it would never end but the one thing we forget so easily is that this year's run was held back by a couple of weeks due to colder then usual water.

As we still catch the odd fall back Steelhead and a few resident Rainbow, we are now bitten with the Atlantic Salmon Bug.

It still amazes me to think that in Algoma Country, the middle of Ontario, we not only have amazing fisheries, but we are also blessed to be able to catch so many different species of anadromous fish all in the same river.

When you have a two-handed rod in your hand and you are in the middle of a swing whether it be using a muddler minnow, or a classic Atlantic Salmon fly, many fly fishing anglers have expressed to me that they experience the same thing I do and that is it seems as if time has stopped around me.

It is as if the beauty of this amazing river puts you into a trance, you forget that you are downtown in the city of seventy thousand plus, all the troubles of life are no longer at the fore front of your mind.

Your rod may be 13ft long and you may have 60ft to 100ft line out but it is as if you are swinging down the river with that fly.

My office is an amazing river; all my business meetings are held in amazing setting that boost some fishing that can be compared to many other top notch rivers.

So this week has come to an end, and some new clients will make their way to Algoma Country and the St. Marys Rapids but there is one thing that will always be consistent.

The beauty of the St. Marys Rapids; its force, its unpredictability and most important the fact that we have at least six anadromous fish that make this river one of the best fly fishing destinations in the world!

- Rod Trudel

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