Monthly Archives October 2014

We wrapped up the show season fishing in the capital region with my guest Bobby Despres, Sports Tourism Co-ordinator for Fredericton. We actually caught a couple right off the dock at Carleton Park while Shawn was unloading the camera equipment. Once we got loaded we idled up the river a hundred feet or so and went fishing. My first Smallmouth was caught just opposite of Bobby’s downtown office. Not a bad way to start the day.
We fished up to the old bridge piers and picked up a bunch of small fish but none of the big girls we were looking for so we headed upriver towards the Bucket Club. I don’t go up to that area a lot so you can imagine my concern when my Lowrance suddenly spiked from eight feet to just a foot and back down to six or so feet...

I donated a free fishing trip to St. Thomas Universities annual charity golf tournament and the gentleman that won it has a son, Micah, who is a fan of the show. A few phone calls back and forth and it was decided that the son would take the trip with me and retired NHL player Mike Eagles and we would make a show of it.
We picked Micah up at 6:30 am and headed for the lake. There are a few places on the lake that fish really shallow, almost like Largemouth fishing in the pads and weeds and that is where we opted to start.
We tried some surface frogs across the weed edges and pads and although we caught a few that way it turned out to be a tube and Senko kind of day...