Monthly Archives June 2011

By: Rick Greene

Well, I will be the first to admit that we didn’t start this season off with a view to going after invasive species but here we are again dealing with the same issue. I hooked up Rick Courier this morning for what we thought would be a predominantly bass fishing day. As it turned out that was not the case.

We started the day down by Cranberry Brook and the first cast with a LC Sammy netted me a nice 2lb smallie. Funny as it sounds, I don’t have any great faith in the Sammy but my buddy Glen called before I headed out this morning and said to tie one on. He has been having great success with it this year. Forty or fifty casts later I decided that the bait was not a Bass Bait but a Pickerel one. They were all over it and I even had it cut off once on a strike and got it back...

By: Rick Greene

My producer Shawn and I drove up to Miramichi City today and interviewed Mark Hambrook from the Miramichi Salmon Association to get his views on the efforts to eradicate the population of Smallmouth Bass that were illegally introduced into the lake. Mark agrees that the DFO is having an effect on reducing the population of spawning fish and the removal of young of the year fish but feels that the use of Rotenone is what it is going to take to make sure that they get them all. This is going to be a tough show to edit with so much good information being exchanged. It is a shame that the government is being forced to spend these huge amounts of money to clean up a mess by some unthinking fisherman who caused this problem.

We got to visit the salmon hatchery and watch a group o...

By: Rick Greene

It was a fairly warm week and the water temperatures were up quite a bit. I talked to  one on the biologists on site and agreed to meet with him Friday morning. My goal was to try and locate beds and sight fish them, he would then use the slurp gun to vacuum out the nest. Mother nature threw a wrench into the sight fishing plan with high winds all day making it extremely difficult to see any distance into the water.

Plan b was to go fishing. We covered about two thirds of the lakes shallow banks in seven and a half hours of fishing. We hooked six bass and landed four of them. The biggest was just over a pound. We downsized our baits from what we tried last Saturday and caught all of the fish on Blue Fox spinners...

By: Rick Greene

Miramichi Lake is part of the headwaters of the world famous Miramichi River. It is well known for it’s population of Atlantic Salmon, which we all know are under considerable pressure and many regional runs of spawning salmon have ceased to exist. The Miramichi is home to twenty per cent of the Atlantic Salmon that spawn in North America.

As near as can be determined someone illegally introduced Smallmouth Bass into lake sometime around 2004. The first reported incidence of someone catching a bass here was reported to the Fisheries and Wildlife office in late summer of 2008. Fish and Wildlife biologists visited the site shortly thereafter and confirmed the presence of bass by capturing young of the year fish...