This is how you get kids hooked on fishing raising Salmon or Trout in their Classroom Hatcheries, Getting Kids Hooked On Fishing

I arrived at the school at 08:30 to get the Chinook Salmon ready to go on a trip to Kincardine to be released and hopefully return in 3 or 4 years to spawn. Each school has an Aquarium set up with a chiller to keep the temperature about 10c or 50f ish, the #Chinook #Salmon eggs arrive at the #SchoolHatchery in November usually. They hatch at the school and absorb their egg sack and come to the swim up stage it's time to start feeding them. They will have to start syphoning the waste food and poop off the bottom and add chemicals to help keep the ammonia and pH levels consistent and the tank healthy. After the bus arrived at Kincardine the Students were able to release 1 Chinook Salmon each into the river then they had a quick snack before a #TroutHatchery tour. We started in the office where the fish mounts are hanging on the walls, there are #Smallmouth #Bass #Walleye not Pickerel lol #LakeTrout a 36lb+ #ChinookSalmon #Musky #BrookTrout #RainbowTrout #BrownTrout #Muskie #esox #Gar and #Pike they saw about 110,000 Rainbow #Trout eggs

that were collected from the #SaugeenRiver fish ladder at #DennysDam and in December the MNRF sent us about 80,000 Brown Trout eggs by courier. After this they walked over to the Lighthouse Museum for a history lesson and a guided tour  before walking back to the Rotary Park to have a Picnic lunch and play on the playground and outside musical instruments before getting on the bus to head back to the school. The weather cooperated to make for a perfect trip.

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 Chinook Salmon

Kids lining up to Release their Chinook Salmon at the Kincardine Harbor boat launch

 

Chinook Salmon temporary home for taxi ride to get released, water from the School Hatchery Aquarium and a Power box to run a bubbler to make sure they had enough oxygen in the water to keep them healthy on the trip.  

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Kincardine Trout Hatchery and River Boat Launch

We started out with 110,000 Rainbow #Trout eggs and we keep them for 1 year and stock them into the Saugeen River around Walkerton so they'll imprint and return to the same river to spawn and hopefully give everyone a chance to catch a personnel best down the road, we are always looking for new members and volunteers to help raise the 110,000 #RainbowTrout, 80,000 #BrownTrout and 110,000 #ChinookSalmon we raise in our 2 #Hatcheries to be released into the Lake Huron watershed.

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Rainbow Trout Eggs

Brown Trout

 

Kincardine River Launch

Brown Trout being moved back to the Hatchery

A couple of the #SchoolHatcheries were struggling so I picked up 4 of them and took them back to the Kincardine Trout hatchery to join their cousins to grow until they're release in the fall of 2025 or Spring of 2026, most of the school's will be going on a trip to visit the #Hatchery for a tour as well as the #LightHouse #Museum and some will get a chance to fish before heading back to school.

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School Salmon/Trout Hatchery Program - Setting The Hook Gets Kids Hooked On Fishing

The day started with me stopping at the school to pick up their 41 #ChinookSalmon from the #ClasssroomHatchery in Arran-Elderslie Elementary School in Tara and then I met the bus full of 2 classes to release their #Salmonat the Southampton boat launch before heading to the #LakeHuronFishingClub port Elgin #ChinookSalmonHatcheryfor a tour and talk about the 110,000 Chinook Salmon in 2 tanks and Rainbow Trout in 1 of the other tanks before heading over to the town pond to have lunch and to fish for some Speckle/Brook Trout before heading back to school. There were a bunch of parent volunteers that drove and helped out with the whole day and there were some nice #BrookTrout or #SpeckleTrout depending on what you call them. The day started out cold but by the time we were #Fishing there were some of the students in t-shirts, the sun was out and the trees around protected the whole area from the wind, once everyone was fishing I went and got a container of food to let the kids feed the fish in the pond before they headed out. There was a father and son they were there celebrating the son's birthday, he caught about 4 before they ran out of worms and the dad mentioned they were thinking of going to get more worms and coming back, I offered to give them a #HatcheryTour before they left, they were happy to see the inside and find out the number of fish we raise, where we raise them, how it works and how much it costs to raise them as well as where they're released. #Conservation #Environment #FishingLife #TakeAKidFishing #KeepCanadaFishing #TakeAFamilyFishing #CatchAndRelease #BlackflyLures #XZoneLures #TheRodGlove #CanadianFishingNetwork #FishingFriendzyFoundation #SettingTheHook #KidsHookedOnFishing #BrucePower 

Until the next #SchoolHatchery release 

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Drone Survey of Steelhead Spawning in the Saugeen River

None of these would be there if the Truax Dam was still there. 

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What a Great Afternoon on the Lake Sight Fishing for Bowfin

I started the day casting for Pike but quickly switched over to Sight Fishing for Bowfin after seeing a few and then a few more, as the day went on I found a lot more with some schools of 4 to 6 sitting a couple feet apart which made for a FUN day of Sight Fishing.

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