Kerbes Pond just 25 km south of Erskine is a designated trophy fishery. Karen and I managed to get out there yesterday afternoon. It was another beautiful afternoon! Warm fall days are to be cherished. We even fished until dark because it was so pleasant! We had Kerbes to ourselves. How were the rainbows, tigers and browns doing at Kerbes?
I thought we were going for a drive because I figured the water levels were going to be extremely low. Once we arrived, we realized that fly fishing from shore was going to be extremely limiting because of the tules (reeds) that have grown all around the pond! We launched our pram at the tiny but quite useable boat launch! We motored over to the area near the 5 working aerators and we found the water was still close to 18 feet deep in places. The water temperature was only 50F and the visibility was about 2-3 feet, which is typical of Kerbes Pond.
As usual we set up along the edges to fly fish and we were into fish all afternoon. We started with Tokaryk Specials and Ice Minnows. We caught mostly stockers. After a while, we fished with floating backswimmer patterns and had a blast catching rainbows. I did hook a very large tiger trout that became unbuttoned near the boat. We saw several very large wakes of sizeable trout! We did not connect with any of them after I lost the big tiger trout! Darn!
I was quite encouraged with the fishery. So many sloughs were bone dry in the area. I hope we get lots of snow this winter. Out water table is low. It was certainly worth going. If you do go, take your pontoon boat or pram. Yes there are places to fish from shore but they are few.
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