Image via WikipediaI live in Moncton, New Brunswick and love it. A small enough city that I still enjoy it. New Brunswick has a lot of lakes, beaver ponds, rivers and streams that makes fishing here so great.
Atlantic Salmon - My favorite species to fish in New Brunswick has to be the Atlantic salmon and the salmon is the main reason I moved to New Brunswick from Ontario. I certainly had no shortage of species and locations to fish in Ontario but the Atlantic salmon is a powerful reason to move.
Trout - Even though I enjoy fly fishing for salmon I also enjoy a few other species, like brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout. Most places here you can fish trout with a spinning rod or on the fly but if it’s fly fishing only don’t get caught with a spinning rod.
Nothing is more fun than using your favorite dry fly for trout.
Smallmouth Bass - I also fish smallmouth bass and for bass there isn’t much more fun that throwing a few top water lures that cause the bass to go bonkers. The explosions are heart stopping.
I love taking new friends bass fishing because we are almost never skunked no matter what the weather conditions so my friends are very seldom disappointed.
Chain Pickerel - From a float tube you can’t beat the fun a pickerel will give you, quite often spinning you in a few circles before you land it.
The pickerel is very similar to the pike I used to fish in Ontario but they don’t grow as big, they only fight like they are that big.
Sturgeon - The dad of big fish here in New Brunswick. The strugeon is so prehistoric looking that you will have to look around you once you see one to make sure you haven’t been transported back in time a few million years.
You don’t want to be fishing sturgeon from a float tube because they may just run you right out to sea.
We also have rock bass, sun-fish, perch and other species that don’t get fished a lot by me. When my son was little we fished more small species but when I am with my fishing buddies we fish the species mentioned above.
Fishing in New Brunswick has been exciting for the past 30 years or so and I don’t see it stopping any time soon, as long as we protect our waters.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
hi , is there no where in the moncton area that holds carp ? even a farmers lake , anywhere, i would love to find somewhere around here to fish, just moved from the uk and i am a life long carp angler with cathces in excess of 40lb in uk and france.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Hi Simon and welcome to New Brunswick.
I have looked for places that have carp in NB but haven’t found one yet. I lived in Ontario where there is plenty of carp fishing but never had an interest until years after I moved here.
I would have thought there would be some place along the Saint John river.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:20 am
hey webman, thanks for the reply, i appreciate it.. i know that carp are classed as vermin over here, which to me is a real shame, in the uk carp are the “prize” fish species, and highly sought after and extremely big business, with some 8 million plus carp anglers in the uk alone,i am also a bait tester for a company called SBS so trying to find new and exciting locations would be great …i am sure there must be some secluded ponds around on someones land that they would consider letting me fish for a price…thanks again