By:Rick Greene

Show six

 Today’s show finds us fishing a small lake not too far from the Town of Woodstock with my guest Mike Eagles. Mike is the athletic director for St. Thomas University and a former NHL player and he is one busy guy. Took me two years to get him on the show and that was with both of us trying to make it happen. As it turns out it was worth the wait.

Mike tied on a copper Blue Fox in-line spinner to start the day off. The point we were fishing has about 18 inches of water on the top with mixed grass and rocks. It has a very abrupt drop on the sides from those 18 inches into almost five feet of water. The fish move along that break and feed along the sides and the top but usually close to the safety of the deeper water...

We are still taping shows for season two but the first one for the year is now on air on Rogers TV NB cable ten. Join us as we talk to the Fisheries officers on site and the anglers who have donated their time to come up and help.

We are only a couple of days away from the tour classic. This is a different format in that we fish each of the two days on a different body of water. Day one on rocky Magaguadavic Lake and day two in Perth-Andover on the Saint John River. Both are higher than normal which is not a bad thing for the lake, the upper river is high, fast and dirty. It will be a challenge.

By: Rick Greene

Backwater casting will have a couple of special guests on board when we hit the water to tape our eighth show of the season. Premier David Alward and Minister of Natural Resources, Bruce Northrup will join me for a day of fishing on one of our beautiful bodies of water. This one will put a bit of pressure on me to perform but I am really looking forward to it. Now I need it to stop raining for a bit.

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By: Rick Greene

I packed up the Oleary Buick GMC Sierra and headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia for some serious big fish. My special guests this week were Scott Jackson and Armel Daigle from Rogers TV New Brunswick and camera man Andre Arsenault. We hooked up with Captain Art Gaetan of Blue Shark Charters at 5:30 am and headed out into the Atlantic on the 42 ft. Black Pearl. A half hour into the trip out we had a whale swimming along beside us for a bit. A nice little bonus to start the day off.

The forecast was rain and some fairly stiff wind but luck was with us for this one and we didn’t get any rain and the wind was not too bad. We need some wind to get a good drift going and there is nothing Art hates worse than a flat calm day...

July 9, 2011

Kids Fishing for Charity Event

This is usually my favourite event of the year and although I didn’t get to fish this year it is still the best.  I usually have one of the grand children out for the tournament but we decided to tape the day’s events for the show. My son took both the kids with him this year and they both got a trophy so life is good.

The weather forecast seemed to change on an hourly basis and our hopes for sun were washed away by some pretty heavy rain in the morning. Thankfully it eased off in mid-morning and the awards and prize ceremonies didn’t get rained out.

The day is set up in a modified tournament format with each child allowed to weigh in one each of Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass and Chain Pickerel...

By: Rick Greene

Well, I will be the first to admit that we didn’t start this season off with a view to going after invasive species but here we are again dealing with the same issue. I hooked up Rick Courier this morning for what we thought would be a predominantly bass fishing day. As it turned out that was not the case.

We started the day down by Cranberry Brook and the first cast with a LC Sammy netted me a nice 2lb smallie. Funny as it sounds, I don’t have any great faith in the Sammy but my buddy Glen called before I headed out this morning and said to tie one on. He has been having great success with it this year. Forty or fifty casts later I decided that the bait was not a Bass Bait but a Pickerel one. They were all over it and I even had it cut off once on a strike and got it back...

By: Rick Greene

My producer Shawn and I drove up to Miramichi City today and interviewed Mark Hambrook from the Miramichi Salmon Association to get his views on the efforts to eradicate the population of Smallmouth Bass that were illegally introduced into the lake. Mark agrees that the DFO is having an effect on reducing the population of spawning fish and the removal of young of the year fish but feels that the use of Rotenone is what it is going to take to make sure that they get them all. This is going to be a tough show to edit with so much good information being exchanged. It is a shame that the government is being forced to spend these huge amounts of money to clean up a mess by some unthinking fisherman who caused this problem.

We got to visit the salmon hatchery and watch a group o...

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...

By: Rick Greene

Miramichi Lake is part of the headwaters of the world famous Miramichi River. It is well known for it’s population of Atlantic Salmon, which we all know are under considerable pressure and many regional runs of spawning salmon have ceased to exist. The Miramichi is home to twenty per cent of the Atlantic Salmon that spawn in North America.

As near as can be determined someone illegally introduced Smallmouth Bass into lake sometime around 2004. The first reported incidence of someone catching a bass here was reported to the Fisheries and Wildlife office in late summer of 2008. Fish and Wildlife biologists visited the site shortly thereafter and confirmed the presence of bass by capturing young of the year fish...