Just had an email from show producer, Shawn DeLong, that the Muskie show we did with Clark Rayner out of Woodstock has been edited. The tapes are off to Rogers studios in Moncton for final production. This one should air shortly on Rogers TV New Brunswick, Cable 10.

Christmas came a bit early at our house this year. The picture is me getting the keys to my new Oleary Buick GMC Sierra from Dennis Dickenson at the dealership. I wasn’t particularly looking for a new ride but they offerred me such a great deal on a 2011 Sierra that I couldn’t pass it up. I am looking forward to getting some miles on it and comparing the performance with the new six speed transmission. Just wish I could hook the boat up and take it on a fishing trip. A big thank you to Dennis and Aubrey for another great dealership experience and my new ride.

Our next website draw will take place in early January. The winner will receive a certificate for an Interstate Deep Cycle battery that will be good at any Interstate dealer in New Brunswick. Not exactly as shown in the picture.  Prize is courtesy of Interstate Batteries of Canada.

I used to have recurring issues with loosing battery power during a tournament day. We could never figure out why but the problem stopped three years ago when I rigged my boat with Interstate Deep Cycles. As a tournament angler this has been invaluable to me because I can fish hard all day and not worry about running out of power.

Rick

Our first draw winner is Cody Hanley from St. George. Cody will receive a Sahara 2500 spinning reel and a Compre rod courtesy of the fine folks at Shimano Canada. All of the draws are made possible through the support of Oleary Buick GMC Ltd in Fredericton.

Entries received after Nov. 30 were added for the next draw.

Thanks for watching and entering, Rick

Friday morning we will be drawing for our first monthly prize winner. This month’s draw will feature a Shimano 2500 Sahara Reel matched with a Shimano Compre Rod. These draws are made possible through the participation of Shimano Canada Ltd and Oleary Buick Gmc Ltd.

Thanks for entering, Rick

Show 7

We thought we would try something a little different today so we packed the Sierra up and headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia. I picked up Joe Thompson at Cambridge Narrows on the way through and we would meet the rest of the guys down there. Seeing as this was a bit longer of a drive than what we usually deal with we went down the night before. Up at four and the mandatory trip to Tim Horton’s for coffee and we were ready to go.

We met Captain Art Gaetan of Blue Shark Charters at the dock and boarded the 42’ Black Pearl for a trip out onto the Atlantic. Hurricane Hugo had just passed through two days before so, not wanting to take any chances, we popped some Gravol just in case...

Let me tell you, I had to get up early this morning. Today we are headed to the Kennebecasis River outside of Hampton for my first attempt at Sturgeon fishing. My guest and guide for the day is Mike Rickett who is working the night shift and is going to hook up with me when I get to Saint John. The city certainly lived up to its reputation this morning with a thick blanket of fog making driving a bit tedious. It also caused a change of plan for launching the boat. We decided to head for the ramp in Hampton instead of trying to drive across the bay in the fog. The good news was that Tim Hortons had opened a store since my last trip there so we made a coffee stop.

We drove down the river from Hampton to one of Mike’s favourite fishing spots on the river and anchored the boat...

Andrew Oliver and I hit the road again in the OLEARY Buick GMC Sierra on another bass fishing trip. The truck just turned one year old and it is as good as the day I picked it up. The only cost to operate so far is a couple of oil changes and tire rotations. The guys at the shop said to ignore the old 5000k rule for oil changes and follow the oil monitor system instead. Easy on the wallet and good for the environment.

The plan for today was to do some deep water drop shot fishing but mother nature has a way of making her own plans. It was a wee bit too windy to hold the boat over the isolated structure that we were going to fish.  Just like a tournament day when things don’t go as expected, Andrew and I just went fishing to try and figure out a pattern.

We tried fishing the outside edge...

Backwater Casting Show Four

Well, if you have been watching the show, you know I have been taking a pretty regular beating from the back of the boat by my guests. I figured the best way to cure that little problem was to hit the water by myself and be assured that the count would work out better. The things a guy has to do.

Shawn loaded up the Rogers TV truck and I got the Sierra hooked up to the boat and off we went to the Benton Headpond which is located on the upper end of Eel River. This is an impoundment created by a very low dam on the river itself. I’m not sure if Ducks Unlimited put in the dam but this is a DU watershed. If you are a bird watcher there was no shortage the day we were here.

If you have never been to Benton before, let me say that most of it is very shallow with a ...

Show number three is up and running. I had the pleasure of sharing a boat with Andrew Oliver, who along with his partner Mike Brennan , were the New Brunswick Sport Fishing Associations  2009 Classic Champions. Andrew certainly lived up to his reputation and put a bunch of fish in the boat. Another back of the boat guy who doesn’t subscribe to the theory that the guy at the front of the boat catches a bigger percentage of the fish.

On this show Andrew and I are fishing a small creek that feeds into one of my favourite local lakes. This is a shallow water, weed and rock infested stream that can harbor some nice fish. We fished a variety of baits but the Blue Fox in-line spinners and the Zoom Horny Toad were the winning baits today...