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After a month off with a damaged shoulder I got out with my Grandson on Saturday and it was a bust with very few fish to the boat. Yesterday Chrissie and I got out for another shot at it. She started the day with the biggest fish in the first few minutes and then followed that one up with the second biggest fish of the day. She also had another big one come off late afternoon right at the boat. The average size over the day was in the mid two’s and we ended up with almost 30 to the boat. Chrissie was using a Shimano SLX MH spinning rod with a 2500 Safari reel, 15 lb Power pro Super 8 Slick and a 14 lb Mastiff leader. All of her fish came on a 5 inch watermelon red fluke. I really mixed my baits up for the day with the same rod and reel setup for most of it...

One of my favourite things to do is help out with the annual Woodstock / NBSFA kids fishing tournament. We lucked out this year with no rain just a bit chilly in the morning. That didn’t deter the kids who were chomping at the bit to get at it. We had 78 kids registered for this one and everyone got some loot to go with them. Volunteers make it possible and I would like to thank our shore staff, Amanda Metz, Rene Pelletier, Ryan Tompson and Woodstock counseller Julie Calhoun-Williams, Veronique for her help with setup and gathering last minute prizes and last but not least Anna and Allison for holding it all together.Here are some happy faces! See you on the water.
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Up early this morning and heading to Woodstock to help out with the annual NBSFA kids fishing tournament. This has always been one of my favourite events and I have been involved one way or another since we started it. The NBSFA team already has a bunch of prizes up there and all the goodies for the BBQ but I am bringing along 5 Shimano Rod and Reel combos and Phil gave me a couple of bikes and two blowup towables to add to the list. This should be a fun day.
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That is a bunch of bait. We fished it for half an hour and caught 1 decent bass at 30 ft , a few small ones and a lot of small Whie Perch. This was the deepest part of the area we were in.
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Our day on Wauklehegan Lake was interesting and the wind posed some challenges in the afternoon but it was a fun day exploring a new body of water. For those who know the lake I am so happy I did not take the glass boat in there. We were surprised by the number of Largemouth we caught and the scarcity of Smallmouth. Ron definitely caught the most fish for the day but I redeemed myself with a big largemouth. In a multi species format Ron had the biggest smallmouth, biggest white perch, biggest pickerel and some nice largemouth to round it out. Ron has a soft stick bait we won’t talk about and he just slays them on it. I was messing around with ten pound Power Pro Super8Slick on two of my rods...

Ron and I got out for a trip yesterday. The early morning topwater bite was insane for about an hour. The Shimano World POP was getting the job done but I was still a little skittish after my hook encounter last week. The first three hours of the day turned out to be the best although we got fish off and on all day. I played with the Active Target 2 as well and picked up several bonus fish with that. It is truly amazing to see how fast the fish react to a bait. I also got to add some newly exposed rocks to my Lowrance charts but next trip is going to be with the jet boat. Sometimes you have to just stop and take in your surroundings. We were out on this beautiful New Brunswick lake catching smallies and there was not a sound other than the birds...

I had a great day on Saturday fishing with my Grandson. It has been a while since we got out for a full day of fishing and it was fun. We both picked up a few fish on the Jackall Pompadour first thing in the morning and then it was pretty much a drop shot and tube bite the rest of the day. The lake is down about three feet and I marked some new rock waypoints on the Lowrance. It is scary what you see when to water is down a bit. I might have to take the jet boat on my next exploration trip. We fished a mix of 7ft med Shimano rods, Stradic and Sahara reels with 10 and 15 lb power pro super8slick line and 10lb Mastiff flourocarbon leaders. We had to watch the knots on anything getting dragged due to the rocks. The last time I was out we never saw a boat all day, today we saw six...

I could have done without the big treble stuck in my hand but we did have a pretty good day fishing. The fish pics were not the biggest but we figured we better throw a couple up at the end of the day. Ron and I put around fifty fish in the boat up to about 2.5 pounds. Still not seeing any really big fish. Young of the year Gaspereau seems to be the food of choice right now with a bit of crawfish in the mix. We are still seeing large clouds of bait out there and the occassional feeding frenzy with schools of bass busting into the bait. Always just out of casting range though. I played around with a ” Donkey Rig ” for a while and it was fun but I am not sure it was worth the work. I may have to read up on it a bit to see if I can make adjustments to it...

Ron and I hit the lake yesterday with the goal to skip some of the stuff we usually fish and go exploring because we were not finding bigger fish. There is one area we idle through because of rocks and Ron saw some breaking fish off to the side so we stopped. There were no big fish but we caught a ton of 14 inchers before we headed up the lake. Kind of like a warm up. We ended up about 20 minutes away from the ramp and got into a few better fish late afternoon. We had not seen a boat for hours until we ran into a few Maine guides in the afternoon. It is amazing how quiet it is out there when there is no one around for miles. We were pulling off of a long point with the goal of heading back to the ramp when I saw a tree on the AT2. It bottomed out at around 50 ft...

Ron, Maurice and I got out on the water for some smallmouth fishing on Saturday. For me the bite is just weird this season with a good number of fish in the 14 to 16 inch range but almost no big un’s. Morris got the best fish of the day early on and we couldn’t beat it. I started off with the Jackall Pompadour and nailed a smallie on the first cast and a largie on the third. I probably had ten on it before the top water bite quit on us. I took lots of gear to share but the guys were pretty self sufficient with Morris catching on a white tube and a bone coloured Spook style bait and Ron got his on a ReRange and a senko. For me it was the Pompadour, World Minnow and a dark tube. There is a pile of bait in the water that look like young of the year Gaspereau and little Perch...