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@@chisaquaticvibe6524 Thanks!

@@chisaquaticvibe6524 Thanks man! Appreciate the positive feedback!

Thanks! I have another one coming in the next few days, some great shots, water was not as clear as last year with all the rain we’ve been having but still not too bad. Thanks for watching!

No state…great white north eh! Southern Ontario. Unfortunately 70-80 percent decline in the last couple decades with all wild brook trout populations in S. Ontario. Thanks for watching!

Selection of the most photogenic clips from five or six weeks of spawning activity, over 200 redds at this location…all completed and 100 percent successful (at least in terms of the physical act itself). Numerous redd sites shown with a wide range of activity from excavation to fertilization events, egg eating etc. etc. Not easy to edit down thirty hours+ of 5k footage (over ??? number of days of filming) to four minutes and make it interesting for the average person…even if in this format the activity is out of context and in no particular order or sequence. Not meant or intended to show any individual redds or overall spawning activity from start to finish. Maybe I’ll do that one year but honestly it’s been done before and wouldn’t be as visually spectacular, actually would probably bore the crap out of most people. Some clips are of redd sites where spawning activity is almost finished while other clips show sites where it’s barely started, some sites half way through. Happy to answer any specific questions.

@@stevenoakes7991 Thank you for your very logic explanation. 👍

Thanks for watching!

Eggs drifting outside of the redd have a very low chance of surviving and the fish won’t pass up the opportunity to gain some extra protein. The bulk of egg eating takes place during spawning events when large amounts of eggs are dislodged, occasionally when the female is excavating. Females often spin around quickly to eat eggs that are dislodged from their own redd during egg laying or excavation. Males compete to fertilize the eggs, often with a very small male sneaking in underneath the cluster of spawning activity, referred to as the precocious male.

@@stevenoakes7991 it was pretty amazing i live on vancouver island I fish salmon steelhead and it's totally different its male female any other male gets close its a fight. none of those species eat the eggs at all. the brookies reminded me of pirahnas like a mob.

Thanks! I was watching your videos the other day…excellent!

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Thanks! The clip has been shortened but it’s a female laying eggs, she spins around comes up behind the group of males egg raiding, picks one out and drags him away by the tail.

Thanks!

Thanks buddy!

Sounds like a good project Ben! Kokanee are amazing.

Thanks Robert!

Thanks very much!

Thanks buddy! Much appreciated.

Thanks Tanner, much appreciated!

Thanks very much Robert! Much appreciated!

Wow, you found an old one! Thanks for watching!

I would love to do that some day, that area is like the holy land for anyone into shiners and darters. Thanks for watching!

Thanks Luke, much appreciated!

Thank you! Editing was a pain:)

Thanks Corey! I appreciate that.

Luke, if you look up Redside dace Ontario distribution you will find maps that show where they are found. Being an endangered species in Ontario they are found in very few places now. They have specific habitat requirements that include a stream width of usually not more than 10 metres. They are not pollution tolerant and disappeared from most urban tributaries of Lake Ontario a long time ago.

@@stevenoakes7991 very cool. Do they live their whole lives in these streams? I'm guessing that they spawn in these streams? I'd love to figure out if one could help propagate them in aquariums to help reintroduce them to streams. I'm guessing that most of these streams are cooler waters? I see that there is some inatiteve to rebuild the foliage on the edges of streams to help the Redside rebuild it's population.

@@lukejmorrison Hi Luke, here is a short video about what’s being done at University of Windsor you may find interesting. You can always try contacting them if you have specific questions. Unfortunately it is not legal to keep native fish species in Canada without special permits. th-cam.com/video/d1vg7kjl2Gk/w-d-xo.html

Thanks Chris! Much appreciated! Hope you’re doing well and getting some fishing in.

@@stevenoakes7991 here and there, but never enough!

Thanks Tanner! I appreciate that. Have a great season.

Thanks Kendra! I took the photos. You might also enjoy ‘Daring night 2’ th-cam.com/video/t1vmiZV0E78/w-d-xo.html

My apologies for missing your comment Doug. All of the fish are brown trout, all of them are wild originating from wild German fingerlings stocked in 1930. Some stocking was done in the sixties but not since 65, the stocking done at that time was for a put and take fishery in places where they would not have survived for vey long. The fish that persisted were no doubt from the original 1930’s stocking…why they all look so different. Thanks for watching.

@@stevenoakes7991 Were they stocked in a stream that was previously inhabited by brookies? I've fished Downeast Maine for about 40 years and most of the streams and rivers have native brookies, but the habitat is marginal due to a lack of cold water during the summer months. There aren't many mountains in the area and most of the cold water is due to seepage of cool springs in very limited areas. I often wondered if brown trout were introduced to the watershed whether they might flourish in places where brookies struggle. The fish in your video are obviously flourishing. Thanks for the reply

@@mcdoug6 Brown and brook trout have an interesting history in this watershed. For their entire history they have had a competitive coexistence. Up until the last fifteen or twenty years brook trout actually dominated and outnumbered brown trout by 20 or 30 to 1. In recent time they have been blamed for brook trout declines in the watershed when in fact their numbers have declined at almost the same rate as brook trout. In the same time period an aggressive stocking program of non native strain Atlantic salmon (salar not sebago) as well as large numbers of rainbow escaping from in-line ponds have changed the population dynamics rather dramatically. No doubt that average stream temperatures are rising but the upper watershed has tremendous groundwater resources and I don’t believe the true impact of climate change has come yet. Wild fish populations are in my opinion easily put out of balance when large scale stocking programs persist over a period of years.

Thanks for watching Dan! I appreciate it.

Thanks so much Gina! Very much appreciated!

Thanks Gina! I appreciate that!

Thanks Eugene! Bird video, especially warblers is challenging to say the least. Totally agree that appreciating the richness of where you are adds so much to the quality of experience. Thanks for watching!