Here’s something a little different. I caught this guy on a soft swimbait in the intra coastal waterway at Vero. He is only a little guy but he is the first one we have put in the boat. We say one a couple of weeks ago that was about five or six times as big. Makes you wonder what else is swimming around in there. Shimano Exage spinning rod, Stradic 2500 spinning reel and 20 lb Power pro with a flouro leader.
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Running a bit behind with this one but we finished up our season where we started it. We launched the boat in downtown Woodstock and hit the water with NBSFA chairperson Larry Sandford. Larry and I did the first show of the season here for some spring smallies and it seemed fitting that we come back in the late fall and go at them again. We had a beautiful fall day and caught a bunch of fish. The Jackall Rerange was great in the spring and it did not let us down in the fall fishing either. We tossed a mix of baits starting with the jerk bait, some tubes and drop shots and we caught them all day. This wasn’t my last fishing trip of the season but it was the finale of our tenth year on Rogers TV NB...

The tournament season is all wrapped up but some of the best fishing of the year is upon us. The Smallmouth are dropping back from the shallows in the upper river and they are starting to put the feed bag on in preparation for a long winter. We are starting to wrap our show season as well but we are going to take advantage of the fantastic fall fishing that is available to us. We hit the water with guest, Paul Michaud, for some great Smallmouth bass fishing on the Saint John River out of Woodstock. We had lots of action including a small Muskie which Paul caught in the Meduxnekeag River. He had to tie on a new jerk bait because the light wire hooks but beat up pretty bad by the toothy critter...

Some days you just have to work at it and this trip was one of those. My guest was Paul Fleming, retired Fire Chief from the city of Fredericton. The fish seemed to be scattered when I expected them to be stacked up. We covered a lot of water on this one and fished in a pretty bad chop most of the afternoon. Paul was a very gracious guest and stuck with it all day. The upside is he got his first drop shot bass, his first in line spinner bass and his first jerk bait bass. He really liked my Cumara Drop Shot rod with the CI4 reel. All of his jerk bait fish came on a Jackall Squad Minnow fished on a 7′ Exage rod, 2500 Stradic FK and 20 lb Power Pro.
The big surprise for me was that the bait fish were gone...

Backwater Casting
Published by Rick Greene · September 20 at 10:13 AM ·
The mornings are getting to be a bit on the chilly side as we chase the fall Smallmouth bite. I got out on the lake with Andrew Oliver who partnered with Mike Brennan to take the NBSFA Classic Championship in Woodstock.
We started off on an old creek channel that was about 12 feet deep with the flat on the sides at 6 feet. We were able to see the fish on the Lowrance Live but we could not get them to bite. We moved up onto the flat and fished across it through scattered grass and rock and picked up a few fish but the majority were short strikes and we had a lot come off...

From Paul Melanson :

Our day one stop of this two part show was at the reversing falls in Saint John. A big thank you out to Mark Doiron for lending us his boat for the trip. The deep vee was much more suited to the fast and crazy water as the tides push through that narrow gap. The Stripers were not super co-operative but we did manage to get two fish into the boat and missed a couple of others. Paul’s custom made River Tide jigs were the ticket to getting the baits down quickly in the heavy current. We were using some heavy duty Shimano Terez rods rigged with Saragossa spinning reels and 8olb Power Pro. Striper fishing at the reversing falls is serious work. Great fun too.
From Paul:
Awesome 24 hours out fishing!! I would like to first thank Marc at Dorions Outfitters for the awe...

Backwater Casting had the pleasure of hosting Mike Holland, Minister of Energy and Resource Development. This was my first time meeting Mike and it was readily apparent that he enjoys the outdoors. This was a very short day because of his schedule and we made the best of the time available. As usual our buddy the weatherman missed the mark by a mile. Our forecast 1m or less per hour was a downpour long before we hit the water and the 14k to 24k wind was closer to a gale. Raingear on and off we went. Boat control became a major issue because of the wind and we moved around a bit trying to locate both fish and an area that was fishable. We started off on a flat that is usually good and I figured it would be even better with the wind and we tied on a couple of SK spinnerbaits...

We just filmed Backwater Casting’s sixth show of the season with long term New Brunswick Sport Fishing volunteer director Tim Chambers. This was a day I was glad to have a tournament competitor on board because it was a challenge.
When I left the house they were calling for chance of thunderstorms after 1pm. We hit the water at 8am and it was hot and humid. It only took five minutes for my glasses to fog up.
Tim nailed one on a topwater on our first stop which, last year, held a large weedbed that was no where to be found this time around. I missed my hit on a tube and that was it.
We fished a shallow flat for a bit and we could see the swirls where the Smallies were pulling dragon flies off of the dollar pads...

Here is a short video from the recent NBSFA Kids Fishing event. The full show will air later in the season on Rogers TV NB-Backwater Casting.