Monthly Archives July 2011

By: Rick Greene

I packed up the Oleary Buick GMC Sierra and headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia for some serious big fish. My special guests this week were Scott Jackson and Armel Daigle from Rogers TV New Brunswick and camera man Andre Arsenault. We hooked up with Captain Art Gaetan of Blue Shark Charters at 5:30 am and headed out into the Atlantic on the 42 ft. Black Pearl. A half hour into the trip out we had a whale swimming along beside us for a bit. A nice little bonus to start the day off.

The forecast was rain and some fairly stiff wind but luck was with us for this one and we didn’t get any rain and the wind was not too bad. We need some wind to get a good drift going and there is nothing Art hates worse than a flat calm day...

July 9, 2011

Kids Fishing for Charity Event

This is usually my favourite event of the year and although I didn’t get to fish this year it is still the best.  I usually have one of the grand children out for the tournament but we decided to tape the day’s events for the show. My son took both the kids with him this year and they both got a trophy so life is good.

The weather forecast seemed to change on an hourly basis and our hopes for sun were washed away by some pretty heavy rain in the morning. Thankfully it eased off in mid-morning and the awards and prize ceremonies didn’t get rained out.

The day is set up in a modified tournament format with each child allowed to weigh in one each of Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass and Chain Pickerel...