It has been a challenge filming this year but we are getting it done. We filmed show 5 out of Woodstock, NB on Friday with our guest Steve Johnson from Saint John. Steve was kind enough to help the NBSFA fundraiser we did in the spring and won a fishing trip and we turned it into a show.
Steve is one of the few guys we have had on the show that preferred baitcasters to spinning gear so I rigged up a few combos for him. The one he used most of the day was a Shimano Compre 7′ ML paired with a Curado 200pg. I had this one set up for drop shotting which he had not done before. He wasn’t long getting the hang of it and put a bunch of fish in the boat. I switched back and forth between a dropshot and a Jackall Rerange 110 Jerkbait and caught a bunch on both...

We had a fun day yesterday fishing with Brian Gray from Miramichi Sport Fishing. No, we were not on the Miramichi chasing Stripers although Brian is all over them right now but we were up in one of our favourite places fishing for Smallmouth outside of Woodstock.
We caught our first fish within a couple of minutes of putting the boat in the water which is not too shabby. We had a double right in front of the town bridge before we headed out into the main river.
Brian hasn’t fished a lot of Smallmouth so I fixed him up with a bunch of different baits to try. His first fish came to the boat on a tube and then he started to try the other baits and caught fish on a dropshot, a Jackall ReRange 110 and a crankbait.
I gave him a mix of equipment to play with as well:
Shimano Intenza 7′ M, 2500 S...

I had the pleasure of fishing with Jake Thomas yesterday on the Saint John River in Woodstock, NB. He is a busy guy and I was lucky to talk him out of going to the office at Keller Williams and jumping in the boat with us.
We faced a very cloudy day and never caught a glimpse of the sun and we ended the day with a half hour of rain which we need but we did get wet.
I got the day started off with a tremendous 7 inch Smallmouth in the Keg and Jake quickly followed that up with one just over three pounds. He was going to make me work for big fish of the day. We picked up a few more fish in the Meduxnekeag and then headed out to the river and hit a half a dozen spots throughout the day...

Back to Spednic Lake for round three with my friend and neighbor Robert Powell. We are going to try and expand on what Ron and I found during the last show and see what else the lake has to offer. On our last trip we saved the trails we ran on the Lowrance Live sonar units so we knew those areas were safe to run. We had picked a cove off of Google Maps that we wanted to have a look at and slowly picked our way in while recording a trail on the Lowrance for a faster trip back out which was a big help and I now have two safe travel lanes we can use. We idled quite a way back in and marked some grass that started at about the 8 foot mark so we shut down and started to fish. Surprisingly the first fish hit a Jackall ReRange 110 in about six feet of water...

I am going to try something a little different this year. If you have been watching the show in the past you will know that we have shot several shows on Spednic Lake. All of the shows were from areas we were exploring at the top end of the lake. This year I am going to try and break down the lower end of the lake which I had never been on until a couple of weeks ago.
This is one of the prettiest lakes I have been on but it is a nightmare for rocks so if you go caution is not a strong enough word.
From the water the shoreline mostly looks the same, boulders are everywhere so we are using Google maps a bit and Lowrance sonar a lot as we try to pick it apart.
We started the morning off of a flat, covered in rocks, and fished where it dropped off from three feet to six feet...

Our first show of 2020 was a show of firsts. Shawn and I hit the water with no guest to start the season off. We had the boat marked off with painters tape in three foot sections for social distancing awareness in the boat. That gave us an idea of what to expect for spacing when we went back to guests. Anytime the boat was moving on the big motor we had masks on because it was closer than six feet. I lost my balance at the launch when I jumped off the boat and slid on a rock and went into the lake on my back. I fished wet for the first hour of so until the wind dried me off. No blooper tapes because Shawn wasn’t rolling at that point...

Due to the virus we have not been able to film yet this year but staying within our social bubble we have been out on the water a bit. This year we made three trips to the Miramichi for some Striped Bass fishing. Our first trip up was pretty much a bomb. It was my first time going up so early and despite hearing reports of guys catching forty and fifty fish a day, I could not find them. We came across a whole bunch of boats fishing a shallow point so I was doing a drift down the outside of them when one shouted over and asked how we were doing. I told him and he called me over to his boat and looked at our baits which he said were too big for that early. He tossed in a package of Savage Sand Eels and said he had already caught eighty fish on them that day...

Chrissie and I hit the Stick Marsh again today for six hour and got into a few better fish. We had a pretty stiff SE wind for most of the day but the spot lock and the Talon helped keep us where we needed to be. We tried a mix of baits but the fish all came on soft plastic worms with a one eighth worm weight. The fish were all pretty much in four feet of water with a mix of scattered grass, some stumps and a sand bottom. Chris was using an Exage MH rod with a 2500 Stradic and 20 lb Power Pro for her setup. I was using a 7′ MH Shimano SLX spinning rod with a 3000 Stella and 20 lb Power Pro. We kept an eye on the Lowrance Live so we new what the bottom was. Anytime we worked over heavy grass or areas with no grass there were no bites...

Here’s something a little different. I caught this guy on a soft swimbait in the intra coastal waterway at Vero. He is only a little guy but he is the first one we have put in the boat. We say one a couple of weeks ago that was about five or six times as big. Makes you wonder what else is swimming around in there. Shimano Exage spinning rod, Stradic 2500 spinning reel and 20 lb Power pro with a flouro leader.
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Running a bit behind with this one but we finished up our season where we started it. We launched the boat in downtown Woodstock and hit the water with NBSFA chairperson Larry Sandford. Larry and I did the first show of the season here for some spring smallies and it seemed fitting that we come back in the late fall and go at them again. We had a beautiful fall day and caught a bunch of fish. The Jackall Rerange was great in the spring and it did not let us down in the fall fishing either. We tossed a mix of baits starting with the jerk bait, some tubes and drop shots and we caught them all day. This wasn’t my last fishing trip of the season but it was the finale of our tenth year on Rogers TV NB...