The raise of water from Dorian gave us the fastest fishing of the fall.  I hooked 7 one morning on the lower Cains.  They were all grilse.  Here is Jason Curtis handling one of them for release.   If you turn on the volume you can hear Jason mutter that the one in the next video was nearly 20 pounds.   Here is a nice salmon going back at Doctor’s Island.      , …Read More →

Every fall I’m struck with the beauty of the wild flowers that grow all along the banks of the Miramichi and Cains Rivers. There are definitely some nice ones during the summer too, and in both cases they are a bit of a surprise when you look at the April banking, scraped clean of all soil by the ice during runoff. The autumn flowers, though, have a special appeal, perhaps born by the knowledge, …Read More →

Miramichi Atlantic Salmon Run Final Counts for 2019  The final numbers for the DFO salmon counting traps used to estimate the number of fish returning to the Miramichi each year are in for the 2019 season. These numbers are available at this link https://inter-j01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/asir/report/count in case you want to study them for yourself. The trap numbers are posted for the fifteenth and last day of each month June through October.  You can select from, …Read More →