Miramichi Lake follow up

By: Rick Greene

It was a fairly warm week and the water temperatures were up quite a bit. I talked to  one on the biologists on site and agreed to meet with him Friday morning. My goal was to try and locate beds and sight fish them, he would then use the slurp gun to vacuum out the nest. Mother nature threw a wrench into the sight fishing plan with high winds all day making it extremely difficult to see any distance into the water.

Plan b was to go fishing. We covered about two thirds of the lakes shallow banks in seven and a half hours of fishing. We hooked six bass and landed four of them. The biggest was just over a pound. We downsized our baits from what we tried last Saturday and caught all of the fish on Blue Fox spinners. The fish were caught in an area previously identified by the biologists as the prime location. We did not catch anything outside of this area even though it look very promising.