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I am finally back in Canada after what was probably the toughest trip back we have ever had. I replaced a hub assemble and two sets of bearings on the first day and to top that off I also had a tire come off the trailer. That could have ended badly but I had pulled off the highway to see what the vibration was and was barely moving when the tire came off. Just missed a lady coming up the crossroad at the ramp.

I am sitting just outside of Smithfield in the Carolinas with the hub on the ground trying to figure out how to get the car jack under the axle. Not going to be easy to get the trailer up. A guy pulls in front of me in a pickup and hauls a hydraulic jack out of the back. He had seen the tire come off and went home and got a jack and came back to help...

We will be shooting this season out of a brand new Triton 21 TRX boat rigged with a Mercury 250 Pro XS. This new boat is a bit bigger for those days when we have  multiple guests on board. Tons of storage for our personal gear as well as the camera equipment. The extra length will smooth out the chop on those days when it gets a bit bumpy. I am really excited to move up into this boat and I will post some pics when it arrives. It should be completed on May 14 and then some delivery time. Come on spring.

Check out the new Tritons at www.tritonboats.com

What a week this has been to say the least. My buddy Jeff flew in from Nova Scotia Sunday night for four days of fishing. He hit it right on the money this year with beautiful warm days and superb fishing. A big treat because other years he has shown up to cold days and cold water and few fish.
We headed for lake Jackson on day two of the trip and started off catching some nice fish on surface frogs fished along hydrilla edges. The fish seemed to come in bunches and we usually caught muliples when we got bit. The lake has changed a lot since I was here two years ago so we were relearning while we went. Most of the Kissimmee grass was gone as was the deeper line of reeds. My guess is that it was sprayed last year...

The Bass bite in this part of Florida has pretty much such down with successive cold fronts dropping the water temperature in the 50’s. I am close the Stick Marsh/Farm 13 which is very shallow and to say the Largemouth don’t like the cold would be an understatement.  Time for another plan.

My buddy, John, and I decided to hit the intercoastal waterway for some saltwater action. This is not something we are familiar with and we have no dedicated salt water gear for fishing. We don’t know enough about it yet to make any substantial investment in new gear either. What to do? The locals told us there were some Bluefish in the Sebastian Inlet. Sounds like some bass gear will do the trick and I broke out a couple of 6’6” Shimano Compre rods, 2500 Stradic reels and 15lb Power Pro.

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For you ice fishing folks, Rapala is announcing the addition of their  ice products to their www.rapala.ca Canadian website.  In conjunction, they are running a Contest Giveaway that will run Nov 1 – Dec 15th , with a signup at the www.rapala.ca webpage.
I haven’t ice fished for a while but some of the winter wear looks pretty interesting for me. You ice fishing guys will like a whole lot more than that.

We wrapped up season four in Fredericton on the Saint John River. The city has a nice launch area and lots of parking on the North side of the river and we were one of only two boats on the water. It doesn’t hurt to go fishing on a weekday and have the river to yourself.

My guest today is fellow tournament angler Jeff Wilson who made the trip up from Saint John to fish with us today. As a vice president of the StonCor Group of companies, Jeff is a busy guy and I was fortunate to be able to get out with him.

Despite some hard work { fishing } our first stop didn’t pan out. The river is still unusually high for this time of year and the fish were not where they normally are because of the change in water height and current...

We wrapped up season four in Fredericton on the Saint John River. The city has a nice launch area and lots of parking on the North side of the river and we were one of only two boats on the water. It doesn’t hurt to go fishing on a weekday and have the river to yourself.

My guest today is fellow tournament angler Jeff Wilson who made the trip up from Saint John to fish with us today. As a vice president of the StonCor Group of companies, Jeff is a busy guy and I was fortunate to be able to get out with him.

Despite some hard work { fishing } our first stop didn’t pan out. The river is still unusually high for this time of year and the fish were not where they normally are because of the change in water height and current...

Donated trip number two.

I donated a fishing trip to Saint Thomas University’s charity golf tournament earlier this year and we finally got together for a day on the water and also turned it into an episode of Backwater Casting on Rogers TV NB.

My guests today both worked for the DNRE, Art works as an enforcement officer and Kirk is in charge of the trail systems in the Province. Both were great guys and both could fish so the day was off to a great start.

Magaguadavic Lake has been a good Smallmouth Lake over the years but lately it has been overrun with Chain Pickerel. We made a conscious decision to try and locate as many Smallies as possible and for the most part stayed out of the real weedy areas...

Earlier this year I donated a gift certificate to the Fredericton Sports Investment auction for a free fishing trip. The winning bidder finally caught up to me last week and I had the pleasure of taking Mike, his son David and David’s best friend Nathan out for a fishing trip.

There were a lot of Chain Pickerel in the area along with some Smallies so I rigged Nathan and Mike with surface frogs to work around the grass, David got a number three Blue Fox and I took a big Skitter POP. We were all using Shimano Crucial 6’6” rods and 2500 Stradic reels. The frogs were rigged with Power Pro in 20lb test and the Blue Fox and Skitter Pop were rigged with 8lb Suffix Seige green mono.

The first fish hit Mike’s frog and it was a Smallmouth that instantly went airborne and that was the end...