Monthly Archives June 2012

Late spring Smallmouth Bass

My Canadian Fishing Tour partner, Terry Curtis, made the trip to New Brunswick from Ontario to have a crack at some early season smallmouth. This was a treat for him because the season in Ontario doesn’t open until the last Saturday in June.

As lady luck would have it the four days that he and his wife spent here were less than ideal with a mix of cloud, showers and wind but that’s why we have rain gear. The forecast is 20 to 30 kilometer an hour winds out of the North East which wasn’t a problem because we were fishing the East side of the lake. This gave us some protection from the worst of it...

Terry and I are filming the first show of the season tomorrow so we wanted to get out and get the rust off. The wind is howling at about 30k so we are going to head up to Woodstock and hope the wind doesn’t bang us around to much in the river. We launched the boat and headed upriver to fish just below the Hartland covered bridge. This is the longest covered bridge in the world at 1282 feet in length and it has been in use since July 1901.

The fishing can be phenonmenal at times just below the bridge but with the crazy weather we have been experiencing this week we had to settle for just good fishing. I started off by rigging a Blue Fox in line spinner on a 6’6″ Crucial medium action rod and a 2500 Stadic reel spooled with 8lb Seige green mono...