We started off a new season of Backwater Casting yesterday with Shawn on the camera and my buddy Ron as a guest. It was a bit of a prefish for the upcoming Nackawic tournament so we moved around a lot. I was just smashing them on the Shimano World Minnow while Ron was throwing a different jerkbait. After a bit he got tired of being beat up and borrowed one of mine and he caught the heck out of them as well. Even Shawn got in on the action when he put the camera down for a while. Woodstock never disappoints. I was using two different setups with a Zodias 270m rod paired with a 2500 Stradic with 15lb Power Pro Super 2 Slick with a 15lb Flouro leader. The other was a 7′ Med Curado with a 2500 Sahara spooled with 10lb mono...

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The above video is an out of the box, first time use with the Active Target. We were fishing in May on the Miramichi River for Striped Bass. I saw this school of bass sixty feet away from the boat but they were right on top of me by the time I hit the record button. We saw a lot of small schools going by and they were all heading upriver. It was amazing to see how many fish there were that just would not bite.

This is the YOU Tube link to our show with Wendy in July. Lots of fun and lots of mid size fish with a few bigger ones in the mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNO5Ifh9LJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lJNXN2763E

This is our first show of the 2022 season. I filmed with Steve Delaney in Woodstock, New Brunswick. Steve is an avid angler, guide and owner of Eastcoastangler.ca. We had a blast to say the very least. The Jackall ReRange really put them in the boat today. I misidentified mine on the show and it is a ReRange Secret Shad II.
We started our day right under the town bridge in Woodstock and both of us nailed a beauty Smallmouth on our first cast. I was fishing a Jackall ReRange 110 to start and Steve picked up some on one of his own hand made underspins with a boot tail swimbait on the back. Something to keep in mind for another day.
We fished different spots in the Keg and out into the main river...

Rene Pelletier and I hit the water for some mid summer smallmouth action. Rene is a well known Hook and Paddle Kayak series competitor and he is very good at it. It was interesting talking with him about the multi species approach the Kayak tour uses for scoring and kayaks can be a lot nicer equipped than they used to be.
We worked hard for our fish in the 30C weather and managed to put some decent smallies in the boat. It was a mixed bag of presentations as we tried to figure out what they would hit. Top waters, jerk baits, spinnerbaits and Ned rigs were all put to use during the day. The biggest fish of the day came on a topwater in the middle of the afternoon and she just smashed it...

I was short a guest the other day due to an incorrect weather forecast and Wendy bailed me out by jumping in the boat with Shawn and I for a day on the water. The big bite was much harder than I anticipated but we did get a few to the boat with a few more cutting us off in the rocks. There is a really healthy population of fat 14 and 15 inch fish which keeps you busy.
We were fishing in extreme heat and high winds in the afternoon and we had to really mix it up to stay on fish. In this lake the old saying “find the grass-find the bass” did not hold up to well. Some fish were on sharp breaks into 25 ft of water-no grass but lots of rock. I tossed a drop shot on a 7′ medium Zodias and Wendy was walking a ned rig down the break. We both caught fish.
The next stop was a shallow rocky flat that...

Backwater Casting made the trip to the Miramichi yesterday to tackle some Stripers. Fishing was a little tougher than we expected but we ended up putting some decent fish in the boat. As you can see from the pictures it was a beautiful day to be out on the water. Our highlight for the day was Rob hooking into a decent fish and Ron grabbed the net. When he scooped up the fish he had two of them in the net as per the pic, only one was hooked. I have been fishing for a very long time and I have never seen that before. That puts Ron up there in the category of “great net man” for sure. He sure did lay on the sunscreen as well. We also had the pleasure of running into Oscar LeBlanc and Dave Chong on the water while they were checking things out for the Striper Cup this weekend...

New Brunswick Sport Fishing takeoff in Nackawic plowing through the boat wakes of the 29 boats in front of us. Phil can drive with the best of them and that big Merc helped us pass almost everyone in front of us. We were in forth place on Saturday with an even 17 pounds and Sunday we had fourteen pounds for a 5th place finish. We caught lots of fish both days but could not find the big girls on Sunday. I caught most of my fish on both days with a Jackall ReRange 110 jerkbaitl, Stradic 2500 spooled with 10lb mono and a Zodias 7′ medium rod. Phil mixed it up a bit going back and forth between a jerkbait and a topwater. We had a lot of fun over the weekend and continue to be impressed with the overall quality of the upper Saint John River fishery. With only 2...

We started off our show season with a trip to one of everyone’s favourite fishing spots, Woodstock, New Brunswick. Our guest to kick the season off is Steve Delaney from EastCoastAngler.ca. Steve is a muti-species guide but I think he leans a lot towards those big Saint John River Striped Bass. Steve also does some custom baits and I particularly like his drop shot weights.
We started our day right under the town bridge in Woodstock and both of us nailed a beauty Smallmouth on our first cast. I was fishing a Jackall ReRange 110 to start and Steve picked up some on one of his own hand made underspins with a boot tail swimbait on the back. Something to keep in mind for another day.
We fished different spots in the Keg and out into the main river...