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Our guest today is Blair Cox, we had a great day on the water catching Smallies and talking about his FishKids project.

Rick

We had the pleasure of fishing with Chris Brown for this show. In the photos are his first Smallmouth Bass, first Chain Pickerel and first Largemouth Bass. It was a warm, breezy, bluebird sky kind of day and the fish made us work hard for our bites. We mixed it up quite a bit with baits and presentations and Chris settled on an underspin Jackall Rhythm Wave swimbait on a 7″ Zodias with a 2500 Sahara reel and 20 lb Power Pro for a big chunk of the afternoon. I tried everything but the kitchen sink. As always on these unmarked lakes our Lowrance HDS Live helped us navigate through the rock minefield with saved trails and GPS marked rocks. This was my first time meeting Chris but it turns out I have been a happy customer of his business...

I can sure pick some great days to film on. We hit the water this morning with Amanda from the Minnow Tackle Shop in Fredericton. Our forecast west wind for the morning was straight out of the north and stayed that way all day and built in intensity to the point that we killed a 36v trolling motor by 330. We, I mean Amanda, started the day off by catching a ton of juvenile bass while I beat the water to a froth with almost nothing to show for it. She also picked up her first ever Largemouth bass first thing in the morning. We bit the bullet and took a bumpy ride up the lake and although we never got any big fish we did get a bunch of average size smallies which are always fun to catch. Amanda got to try out some different baits on a Shimano Zodias Med...

Ron and I were not able to get even close to the number of fish we caught on the same day last year. However we had lots of fish over the slot size which makes for some crazy action. Soft jerk baits ruled the day for us as we put 63 beautiful Miramichi Stripers in the boat. The water temperature at the Enclosure bridge was 59f at 4pm this afternoon. We were using seven inch soft jerk baits on a quarter ounce swimbait hook with the screw locks. The spawn has begun up towards Red Bank. Shimano 7′ MH rods, 2500 Stradics and 20 lb Power Pro did the heavy lifting. Ron and I both commented on the clarity of the screen with the new Lowrance HDS Live I installed last night...

For our second show of the year we invited Mike Holland, Minister of Natural Resources to jump in the boat with us. We had a lot of fun and caught some fish putting 44 in the boat from 730 am to 330 pm. We caught them on Sand Eels, flukes and a bunch on JerkZ’s from EastCoastAngler.ca. Make sure to get some big hooks for the JerkZ’s, they have some bulk and need at least a 7/0 .The Lowrance was great for showing us the fish and schools of them were swimming up river. It was tough to get them to bite but we got our share of them. Check out the show this fall and hear Minister Holland talk about some of the initiatives he is involved in this year. Our gear today was 7′ MH Shimano rods, 2500 & 4000 Shimano Stradic reels and 20lb Power Pro braided line and a 20 lb flourocarbon learder...

We started off our show season with Blair Cox and had a blast out there. I gave Blair a Jackall ReRange 130 to start the morning off and for the next hour I got out fished by at least five to one. It was more than a little cold in the morning and we ended up in rain gear for a while but the fish were biting and that helps to take your mind off of frozen fingers. It brightened up in the afternoon and the fishing got even better.
We had a great chat with Blair on the FishKids project that he started working on last year to provide kids less fortunate than ourselves with rods, reels and tackle. He is doing some great things out there and you can check him out on FishKids.ca.
This was a great kickoff to our season and I am switching gear and getting ready to hit the Miramichi on Saturday for s...

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...