Fishing Friends – the Moncton office of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans “DFO” has achieved a new milestone in its mismanagement of Miramichi salmon. As one of my friends says, “All DFO has to do is slow walk the striped bass/Atlantic salmon thing and the salmon lose.”  Of course he is right, but why would anyone at DFO do that?  After all, Atlantic salmon and lumber have been the backbone of the Miramichi valley, …Read More →

I spent the week of May 12th fishing for brookies at the Mahoney Brook camp, 22 miles up the Cains River.  This blog has a report on that trip and a few thoughts on the start of the bright salmon season.  There are a number of things going on in salmon conservation, too, but we’ll wait a few days for some expected additional news to write that blog. Among other things, though, we have, …Read More →

  Fishing Friends – One never knows what is in store for weather and water conditions in the first weeks of spring salmon fishing.  The illustration below from the Canadian Government website shows water height and temperature on the SW Miramichi since opening day on 4/15.  As you can see there have been two major raises of water.  The raises do two things.  First, they fill the river with dirty water.  The high dirty, …Read More →