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Bronte Creek

Taken during a salmon fishing trip. This is about 30 minute walk up stream from Lake Ontario in Bronte, Ontario.
As I sat gazing at this photo, it final...
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Taken during a salmon fishing trip. This is about 30 minute walk up stream from Lake Ontario in Bronte, Ontario.
As I sat gazing at this photo, it finally dawned on me that the salmon actually have to make their way through this area in the river in order to make it to their destination so they can lay their eggs. Unfortunately for the salmon, this is not the only area in the river that looks like this.
I suddenly realized just how difficult it really is for the salmon to reach their spawning ground.
Mother Nature has definitely made this trip upriver a difficult one and when I thought about it for a few minutes while looking at this photo, it became so much more real.
Looking at this photo made me really understand why there are so many salmon that never make it to their spawning ground and are found either dead or dieing along the side of the river. I was overwhelmed when I watched some salmon fighting their way past so many sections where there is almost no water at all and nothing but shale rock. How so many make it in the first place surprised me.
Something else that surprised me was the fact that towards the end of the salmon run, the trout begin their journey up this very same river heading for the exact same area as the salmon.
While we were fishing, we noticed that the game wardens and the provincial police from the surrounding areas were in full force walking up and down the river checking that every single fisherperson had their fishing license and that they were following the rules and regulations while they were fishing.
If you look at the other photo I took of Bronte Creek, you will notice a few people standing on the bank of the river. Shortly after I took that photo, the game wardens showed up only to discover that they had no fishing licenses. They were all charged, fined and then removed from the river.
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