Fishing Friends: During the last 10 months two different DFO Ministers have bypassed the local DFO Gulf office in Moncton and directly ordered some measures to control striped bass.  There is a recognition in the Minister’s office in Ottawa that does not currently appear to exist in Moncton, that the out of balance population levels between striped bass and everything else in the Miramichi have created big problems for Atlantic salmon, Rainbow Smelts and, …Read More →

Fishing Friends – I dearly love the progression of the New Brunswick salmon season as it advances from spring salmon opening day on April 15, to the chrome fish of May and June, the hide and seek around warm weather and thunderstorms of mid-summer – okay, my least favorite – to the beginnings of the fall run and finally the drive upriver of the big colored fish to the spawning grounds.  But, no part, …Read More →