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seems wrong
I got serious about fly fishing last spring, and had lots of fun fishing locally here in eastern Ontario. I had good success fishing for panfish and smallmouth bass. I'm planning ahead for this year and would like to include some trout fishing.
It seems counter intuitive, but I'm setting up to "bass fish" moving water, rivers and streams, and trout fish stillwaters of small lakes and ponds.
I could be wrong but that is my thinking for eastern ont.
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I do a lot of fly fishing for Bass, and most of it is in smaller still water. I'm not blessed with a lot of trout streams locally, but experience tells me that moving water is for trout, still for bass. I know this is not exclusive, but personally, I love the feeling I get when a largemouth (or a smallie), explodes the stillness of the pond. Equally, I love watching a Brookie rise and turn on a floating Adams - it just usually happen in moving water.
What you propose sounds a little backward to my ears, but maybe that's the lay of the land in your neck of the woods. But when I prepare, its Bass (poppers, bunny leech, shad imitations) still water. Trout (assorted dries, bead head nymphs, small streamers) rivers, creeks.
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There are lots of waters where you will find trout in still water, and bass in running streams and rivers. The Maitland has both..so does lake Erie and Ontario.
So they will be where the conditions are right for each of them. Temperature, food, structure match it to the fish and you will find them.
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Water temperature will dictate where you find trout more so than moving or still, same applies for small mouth as well but less so.