New Brunswick

New Brunswick

Sport fishing in New Brunswick has been a personal passion for more than 30 years and I get to travel around New Brunswick fishing for a variety of species.

Species like trout and Atlantic salmon which I love on the fly rod. Fly fishing isn’t the only type of fishing here in New Brunswick but it sure is fun.

Learn more about our Atlantic salmon on Wikipedia and you will see why it’s such a great fish to catch on the fly rod. However fly fishing is also a lot of fun when fishing for Brook Trout, Smallmouth Bass and even Pickerel and Musky. I haven’t actually caught a musky on the fly rod yet but if it’s anything like Northern Pike I know it’s a blast.

We get a lot of wind here in New Brunswick and I don’t do so well with the fly rod in the wind. One time I hooked my fly line right around my neck and put the hook right through my earlobe. My son thought I should get an earring at that time.

Fly Fishing Atlantic Salmon

Fly Fishing Atlantic Salmon

Another time my fishing buddy Roland hooked me in the neck. He wouldn’t touch it to get it out and I couldn’t get it out so I cut my line, left the hook in my neck for the rest of the day, and got it out once we were back at the car. Sure glad it was a small trout fly.

For that reason I tend to do more spinner fishing when it’s windy like that. I do a lot more fly fishing early morning and right around dusk as that seem to be the calmest times.

Basically our sport fishing season is open from April 15 to September 15 but if you pay attention to our NB fishing guide, the one you get when you purchase your license you’ll see that some fishing continues for another moth but you need to check so you know you’re fishing legally after Sept. 15 as the fishery cops aren’t the least bit forgiving.

I enjoy living here in Moncton, New Brunswick.

I came here for a visit back in 1974, from Mississauga Ontario and loved the fact I could drive out of Moncton and be in the bush in less than a half hour fishing brook trout. Eventually I just moved here and never bothered to return to Ontario other than to visit.

I can also be fly fishing Atlantic salmon an hour after the work day is done which makes for some great evenings on the water.


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