Monthly Archives July 2017

Miramichi River with Rob Spon
One of the things that I have liked about doing the show over the last seven years are the great people that I have had the pleasure of fishing with and today was no exception. Our guest was Rob Spon, coach and general manager of the Saint John Riptide pro basketball team. The guy likes to fish and it shows but man he is passionate about his basketball.
Weather forecast at 5 am was sunny with cloudy periods with 12 k east wind gusting to 20. I think the sun popped out just as we were leaving to come home at 4 pm and lets just say it was a wee bit windy all day.
I stayed downriver below the Enclosure due to the DFO closing the upper stretch of the river due to the spawn and started off where we had found them on our last trip...

Shawn and I hit the water yesterday with my friend and neighbor Jim Powell. I usually try to prefish a lake before we shoot so I don’t get any bad surprises but we decided to go in cold and shoot it like it happens.
We started out in front of a small creek and got one and missed a couple more. I didn’t want to take the Triton further up the lake because of all the rocks so we went back down by the ramp to a big flat with a mix of grass and rock with about six feet of water on it. Jim was throwing a Blue Fox in line spinner on a 7′ Medium Cumara rod with a 2500 Stradic spooled with 15lb Power Pro. I was throwing a Jackall SK Pop Grande on a Crucial 6’6″ med rod with a 2500 Stradic spooled with 8 lb mono.
We got quite a few fish on the flat and Jim picked up the biggest one of the day at o...