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I am going to try something a little different this year. If you have been watching the show in the past you will know that we have shot several shows on Spednic Lake. All of the shows were from areas we were exploring at the top end of the lake. This year I am going to try and break down the lower end of the lake which I had never been on until a couple of weeks ago.
This is one of the prettiest lakes I have been on but it is a nightmare for rocks so if you go caution is not a strong enough word.
From the water the shoreline mostly looks the same, boulders are everywhere so we are using Google maps a bit and Lowrance sonar a lot as we try to pick it apart.
We started the morning off of a flat, covered in rocks, and fished where it dropped off from three feet to six feet...

Our first show of 2020 was a show of firsts. Shawn and I hit the water with no guest to start the season off. We had the boat marked off with painters tape in three foot sections for social distancing awareness in the boat. That gave us an idea of what to expect for spacing when we went back to guests. Anytime the boat was moving on the big motor we had masks on because it was closer than six feet. I lost my balance at the launch when I jumped off the boat and slid on a rock and went into the lake on my back. I fished wet for the first hour of so until the wind dried me off. No blooper tapes because Shawn wasn’t rolling at that point...

Due to the virus we have not been able to film yet this year but staying within our social bubble we have been out on the water a bit. This year we made three trips to the Miramichi for some Striped Bass fishing. Our first trip up was pretty much a bomb. It was my first time going up so early and despite hearing reports of guys catching forty and fifty fish a day, I could not find them. We came across a whole bunch of boats fishing a shallow point so I was doing a drift down the outside of them when one shouted over and asked how we were doing. I told him and he called me over to his boat and looked at our baits which he said were too big for that early. He tossed in a package of Savage Sand Eels and said he had already caught eighty fish on them that day...

Chrissie and I hit the Stick Marsh again today for six hour and got into a few better fish. We had a pretty stiff SE wind for most of the day but the spot lock and the Talon helped keep us where we needed to be. We tried a mix of baits but the fish all came on soft plastic worms with a one eighth worm weight. The fish were all pretty much in four feet of water with a mix of scattered grass, some stumps and a sand bottom. Chris was using an Exage MH rod with a 2500 Stradic and 20 lb Power Pro for her setup. I was using a 7′ MH Shimano SLX spinning rod with a 3000 Stella and 20 lb Power Pro. We kept an eye on the Lowrance Live so we new what the bottom was. Anytime we worked over heavy grass or areas with no grass there were no bites...

Here’s something a little different. I caught this guy on a soft swimbait in the intra coastal waterway at Vero. He is only a little guy but he is the first one we have put in the boat. We say one a couple of weeks ago that was about five or six times as big. Makes you wonder what else is swimming around in there. Shimano Exage spinning rod, Stradic 2500 spinning reel and 20 lb Power pro with a flouro leader.
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Running a bit behind with this one but we finished up our season where we started it. We launched the boat in downtown Woodstock and hit the water with NBSFA chairperson Larry Sandford. Larry and I did the first show of the season here for some spring smallies and it seemed fitting that we come back in the late fall and go at them again. We had a beautiful fall day and caught a bunch of fish. The Jackall Rerange was great in the spring and it did not let us down in the fall fishing either. We tossed a mix of baits starting with the jerk bait, some tubes and drop shots and we caught them all day. This wasn’t my last fishing trip of the season but it was the finale of our tenth year on Rogers TV NB...

The tournament season is all wrapped up but some of the best fishing of the year is upon us. The Smallmouth are dropping back from the shallows in the upper river and they are starting to put the feed bag on in preparation for a long winter. We are starting to wrap our show season as well but we are going to take advantage of the fantastic fall fishing that is available to us. We hit the water with guest, Paul Michaud, for some great Smallmouth bass fishing on the Saint John River out of Woodstock. We had lots of action including a small Muskie which Paul caught in the Meduxnekeag River. He had to tie on a new jerk bait because the light wire hooks but beat up pretty bad by the toothy critter...

Some days you just have to work at it and this trip was one of those. My guest was Paul Fleming, retired Fire Chief from the city of Fredericton. The fish seemed to be scattered when I expected them to be stacked up. We covered a lot of water on this one and fished in a pretty bad chop most of the afternoon. Paul was a very gracious guest and stuck with it all day. The upside is he got his first drop shot bass, his first in line spinner bass and his first jerk bait bass. He really liked my Cumara Drop Shot rod with the CI4 reel. All of his jerk bait fish came on a Jackall Squad Minnow fished on a 7′ Exage rod, 2500 Stradic FK and 20 lb Power Pro.
The big surprise for me was that the bait fish were gone...

Backwater Casting
Published by Rick Greene · September 20 at 10:13 AM ·
The mornings are getting to be a bit on the chilly side as we chase the fall Smallmouth bite. I got out on the lake with Andrew Oliver who partnered with Mike Brennan to take the NBSFA Classic Championship in Woodstock.
We started off on an old creek channel that was about 12 feet deep with the flat on the sides at 6 feet. We were able to see the fish on the Lowrance Live but we could not get them to bite. We moved up onto the flat and fished across it through scattered grass and rock and picked up a few fish but the majority were short strikes and we had a lot come off...

From Paul Melanson :

Our day one stop of this two part show was at the reversing falls in Saint John. A big thank you out to Mark Doiron for lending us his boat for the trip. The deep vee was much more suited to the fast and crazy water as the tides push through that narrow gap. The Stripers were not super co-operative but we did manage to get two fish into the boat and missed a couple of others. Paul’s custom made River Tide jigs were the ticket to getting the baits down quickly in the heavy current. We were using some heavy duty Shimano Terez rods rigged with Saragossa spinning reels and 8olb Power Pro. Striper fishing at the reversing falls is serious work. Great fun too.
From Paul:
Awesome 24 hours out fishing!! I would like to first thank Marc at Dorions Outfitters for the awe...