The Best Fishing In New Brunswick Part One – The Spring Spawn

Image via WikipediaI would have to say that a statement like ‘the best fishing in New Brunswick’ is pretty much based on the fisher telling the stories. Personally I have a number of the best fishing spots in New Brunswick, it just depends on the day or the time of year. So let me break it down a bit to perhaps make this post a little more helpful.

Spring Fishing In New Brunswick

Brook Trout in the Spring

Since I moved to New Brunswick, some 30 years ago, I have loved fishing brook trout in the spring. The spring is the only time I keep any brook trout to eat. The rest of the year it’s all catch and release, but one or two good feeds of brookies a year is too hard to turn down.

Black Salmon in the spring

In the early spring I like to fish for black salmon, those Atlantic salmon that have spent the winter in the rivers. They are hungry and ready for some action about the time spring rolls around and I am ready to catch them.

Any time of year is a good time of year to have a feed of Atlantic salmon but in the spring they are about 100 times easier to catch than any other time of the year.

Aggressive Smallmouth Bass in the spring

I also love to catch those aggressive smallmouth bass when they are getting ready to spawn. I usually catch a lot at this time of year but unlike other times of the year I pay attention to where I caught them so as to release them close to their nests.

I know they will find their nest from pretty much anywhere you release them but after a good fight I don’t care to let them go too far from their nest.

I bring my fly rod with me any time I go fishing but I don’t always use it. In the spring I like to use it as early as possible but find that my spinning gear gets me more of the spawning fish. I don’t really like using sinking line on my fly rod, that’s why I turn to my spinning gear at those times.

Chain Pickerel in the spring

Getting to the Chain Pickerel in the early spring can net you some nice size pickerel and catching them on the fly line is always a treat. That will be a new treat for Jamie as he has only caught pickerel on spinning gear to this point. I will get him in a float tube next year and watch him get pulled around by a few good size mothers.

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