Fall fishing with Paul Michaud

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. Baits that worked included the Jackall ReRange jerkbait, drop shot wacky rigged stick baits, tubes and Senkos. I fished the ReRange on a 7′ Med, Exage rod, 2500 Stradic FK and 10 lb mono. The drop shot is on a 7’2″ Cumara rod, 2500 CI4 reel and 8 lb fluorocarbon.