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I got to spend some time in the boat today with my friends Rob and Melissa who were escaping some of that cold Canadian weather. The fish were not where I expected them to be and it started off really slow but we eventually figured it out. Although we didn’t catch a bunch of fish we did get some good ones. We were watching the Lowrance Live and took note of what the first fish was on, then when we got the second one we knew what what they were setting up on. Melissa had her personal best largemouth early on and then beat it around lunchtime. Not bad to hit two personal bests on one half day trip to the Farm. Rob got into the act as well and as you may notice someone else didn’t get his picture taken. Nuff said about that...

I managed to get a couple of days out on the Stick Marsh / Farm thirteen impoundment with Chrissie this week. The first day we caught twenty or so fish and some of them were good ones. The day started off with a fish on my first cast and I figured this was going to be good day on the water but the next couple of hours were a grind and we only put five in the boat. Chrissie had one of them and it was pushing six pounds. I continued working different sections that I knew could hold some fish and one of them was the deal. We hit about ten fish in one area about 100 yards long and they were all nice fat fish. We were off the water by two.

Yesterday I had some errands in the morning so we didn’t even get on the water until 10 am...

Backwater Casting season finale.
It sure is tough to book a show around the weather this time of year but we got this one right. We travelled up to Woodstock yesterday with our guest Ray McFarlane for some late season Smallmouth Bass fishing. A bit on the cold side, some light rain and a little bit of wind were the order of the day.
Our first stop started off a bit on the slow side with me throwing a tube and Ray fishing a Shakey Head. It was probably a good ten minutes before we got a fish and Ray struck first and brought a chunky 2.5lber to the boat. Another cast at the same general spot produced another one and while I was watching to see how big the second fish was going to be I felt that old familiar tick on the line and we were into our first double header of the day...

This is a screen shot from my HDS 9 Carbon showing a school of Striped Bass passing under the boat while we were filming on the Miramichi River this year.

The link is to a show we did on the Miramichi River with Marc Doiron. We had lots of fun and lots of fish.

Some posts have disappeared into the void of the internet so I am reposting earlier shows

I think that when I tell you my hands hurt you know the fishing was good on the Chi today. We caught up with Marc Doiron who took some time away from his new store in Miramichi City to fish with us. This morning was as nice as you could ask for and the fishing was great. We idled down the channel and watched the Lowrance units for schools of fish. Find them and catch them. The incoming tide started not long after we got there and there was wave after wave of Stripers moving up with the tide.
Marc caught most of his on a Savage Gear Sand eel and I got most of mine on a Zoom Super Fluke. The fish were tight to the bottom and a lot of the guys trolling were not getting down to the fish...

We have lost some of the shows from the site for some reason so I am reposting them.

Shawn has pretty much tied up the special program he has been working on for the last few weeks so we are back on the water for show four of our ninth season on Rogers TV NB.
Our guests today are Chantal and her son Sebastien. The fishing has been off a bit but we managed to put some nice Smallmouth Bass in the boat. We had an absolutely gorgeous day to film and the heat didn’t really start to cook us until we got back to the ramp.
Chantal went after the multi species prize with a combination of Bass, Yellow Perch, White Perch , Chain Pickerel and a Sun Fish. Pretty sure she had not caught any of them before so a nice experience for her...

Fishing Smallmouth Bass with Adam Foster of Strike Back Sport Fishing Adventures.
Some days are diamonds and some days are stones and today was definitely a diamond kind of day for fishing. We started off fishing a shallow flat that ran from two feet in the rocks and boulders out to about seven feet of mixed rock, sand and grass. We picked up fish on in-line spinners, tubes and Adam’s Ned rig but we were not getting the size we were looking for so further down the lake we go. As is typical for New Brunswick lakes this one is not charted and going slow and keeping an eye on the Lowrance was the best way to keep the Evinrude lower unit in one piece.
Stop two was on a sharp bank that dropped very quickly into forty feet of water...

Fishing with Mike and Ethan
I always enjoy getting out on the boat, catching a few fish and taking in the beautiful scenery and wildlife we have here in New Brunswick but some days are extra special. Today was one of those days when the fun level got bumped up a bunch thanks to our guest Ethan who is ten. The young man is already well on his way to being an accomplished angler and I knew from his first cast that he could handle a rod.
We actually had two days out with Mike and Ethan, not because we weren’t on fish the first time but because the camera got dunked in the lake and we know what happens when you mix power and water. We had already made the trek to the lake so it turned into a fishing day and despite high winds all day we managed to put a good many fish into the boat...

We had a chance to get out for a show with Lucky Strike pro staffer, Andrew Oliver and had a great day. The weather actually cooperated and we put 44 fish in the boat including four doubles. It has been a while since Andrew and I got to share a boat and it was fun catching up, the catching was fun too.
Andrew brought along a pair of Bolle sunglasses for me to try out and a Lucky Strike B4 Basket net which we also tried out for the day. It has rubber coated mesh so it is easy to get the hooks out as well as a telescopic handle when you need a little more reach. This would be an ideal net for kayak and canoe fishing because it takes up so little space and it would be an ideal backup net to throw in a rod locker for those days we forget or lose a net...