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When the chance to fish somewhere other then my home river arises, i grab it. Over the long weekend just passed, i had the opportunity to wet a line in the Ottawa Valley (Madoc/Tweed, Ont) on the Skootamatta River. My brother and I arrived late (9:30 pm), geared up, and were on the river within 15 min. I started fishing a pool at the foot of a rapids/waterfall. On my third cast of a Morrish Mouse this decent sized fish was landed: a few minutes later and a change up to a simple deer hair frog, i landed this slab: with very little time to fish, for my final session i headed just downstream from the pool to fish this section of water: a change up of tactics to stream fishing yielded me more fish per hour then i have ever had. It has been a while since i've caught River Chub, and man is it fun! A quick cast, short drift, one or two twitches, bang fish on. Cast, after cast, after cast. White beadhead Woolly Buggers and basic nymph patterns fished as a dropper ruled the day. As far as Chub go these were monsters. I had fish averaging 8-10 inches. With the quick takes, amazing colours and acrobatics; i call them poor man's trout. I could fish all day for them. Because i was pressed for time i have no pics To finish this report, i will give a shout out to the great place that we stayed at. The 'Unconventional Moose' has a great cabin w. kitchenette, for a very reasonable rate. Everything in this cabin is new; as it was renovated and furnished last year. We're talking about foam beds and soften water here and the above fishing holes literally at your doorstep. If you have watercraft of some sort, then the fishing options become endless. We are talking about turning this into an annual trip for the above reasons. So there you have it, my first trip report