Monthly Archives September 2011

By: Rick Greene

Trying to get ready for a show and deal with the aftermath of the accident last weekend made this week a bit of a challenge.  Phil’s and Oleary’s both stepped up and got me back on the water so I could prefish a bit. It’s always easier to do a show if I have already located a few fish to break the ice.

I spent a couple of days on the Saint John River out of Woodstock and I found that it was still a bit of a tough bite but the fish were aggressive when you found them. The constant up and down of the water level this year might have them a bit messed up.

I met my guests, Premier David Alward and Minister of Natural Resources Bruce Northrup, on the highway at seven A.M. and we headed for Woodstock. Everyone was pumped up and eager to get on the water...

First the good news, no one got hurt. The bad news is that I put the Sierra and the boat off the road this morning on the way to the lake. The truck is probably a write off and so is the garage I went through. The boat looks ok, the trailer, not so good. It speaks volumes about the truck when it is probably done and yet Judy and I never suffered so much as a scratch.

Word gets around fast in tournament circles and despite the fact that I had just put the whole works off the road. Phil Barrett from Phil’s called me at the accident scene and offered to lend me his Stratos. Aubrey Ward from Oleary’s called and offered me the use of a truck...

By:Rick Greene

Show six

 Today’s show finds us fishing a small lake not too far from the Town of Woodstock with my guest Mike Eagles. Mike is the athletic director for St. Thomas University and a former NHL player and he is one busy guy. Took me two years to get him on the show and that was with both of us trying to make it happen. As it turns out it was worth the wait.

Mike tied on a copper Blue Fox in-line spinner to start the day off. The point we were fishing has about 18 inches of water on the top with mixed grass and rocks. It has a very abrupt drop on the sides from those 18 inches into almost five feet of water. The fish move along that break and feed along the sides and the top but usually close to the safety of the deeper water...

We are still taping shows for season two but the first one for the year is now on air on Rogers TV NB cable ten. Join us as we talk to the Fisheries officers on site and the anglers who have donated their time to come up and help.

We are only a couple of days away from the tour classic. This is a different format in that we fish each of the two days on a different body of water. Day one on rocky Magaguadavic Lake and day two in Perth-Andover on the Saint John River. Both are higher than normal which is not a bad thing for the lake, the upper river is high, fast and dirty. It will be a challenge.

By: Rick Greene

Backwater casting will have a couple of special guests on board when we hit the water to tape our eighth show of the season. Premier David Alward and Minister of Natural Resources, Bruce Northrup will join me for a day of fishing on one of our beautiful bodies of water. This one will put a bit of pressure on me to perform but I am really looking forward to it. Now I need it to stop raining for a bit.

Rick