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Rouge River
10-09-2012, 04:55 PM (This post was last modified: 10-09-2012 04:57 PM by Jeremy Ray Green.)
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RE: Rouge River
So Rouge River...
Long story on this one...


you all know of the Milne Dam...


The milne pond was created in the 1800's, It was created by a Old Grist mill, as industry moved on, the mill was removed but the dam remained there, in the 1950's, orso, hurricane katrina came through and flooded the area, Wipeing out the old dam...

After that conservation programs were put into place, In actuality the areas we call conservation areas, and think its all a good thing for the wildlife, they were actually areas where a group could control or conserve the water flow so that in the future if there is a flood a river would not get wiped out intirely as mother nature would have intended...

for about 2 years after hurricane katrina came through and wiped out the original milne dam, the migrating fish species were allowed to pass that one barrier.
This helped the fish species for about 4-5 years after the milne dam was replaced, and it has slowly died since then...

Fish generally goto spawn at the area they were born, for the most part if the spawning is taking place in the lower ends of the rivers, the quality of fish will be less, and they have a smaller area to spawn in which would create less fish..


moving to today...

a Fish ladder was built in 2002, it was the first time since the 50's ?? that fish have been moved over the dam.

This year the ladder was open all year.

over the next 4-5 years you will start to notice a significant difference in the lively hood of the rouge river system.


Summer months when the weather is too warm for trout or salmon to be in the rouge, is a great time to catch Small mouth, large mouth, sunfish and even crappie, and dont forget the Carp and Suckers, Chubb and Fall Fish, Lots to be had by everyone.....

Fishing on the rouge river is open, from lake ontario to the south side of the 407 until december 31 then it is closed until spring opener,
Your not gonna want to miss that Wink ...

Toogood pond and Milne ponds are great areas to target just about anything, your allowed to use a canoe or rowboat in either of these ponds also....


~Jeremy.

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Rouge River - MichaelAngelo - 03-04-2012, 01:53 AM
RE: Rouge River - keith78 - 03-14-2012, 11:21 PM
RE: Rouge River - bfisher - 03-14-2012, 11:58 PM
RE: Rouge River - MichaelAngelo - 03-15-2012, 02:36 AM
RE: Rouge River - Jeremy Ray Green - 10-09-2012 04:55 PM
RE: Rouge River - MichaelAngelo - 10-09-2012, 10:14 PM
RE: Rouge River - Giuga10 - 10-10-2012, 03:20 PM
RE: Rouge River - MichaelAngelo - 10-10-2012, 08:29 PM
RE: Rouge River - grubman - 10-15-2012, 10:16 AM
RE: Rouge River - MichaelAngelo - 10-15-2012, 11:03 AM
RE: Rouge River - OldTimer - 10-15-2012, 01:42 PM
RE: Rouge River - grubman - 10-15-2012, 02:11 PM
RE: Rouge River - shuntoo - 10-22-2012, 01:08 AM

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