Image by mrcd@sbcglobal.net via FlickrI learned to read the water I fish from an early age. I don’t remember being taught by anyone because I spent most of my youth fishing alone but it’s most important to me now and I try to show those I take fishing.
I was a foster kid from age 5 up and hated moving from home to home, trying to make new friends that didn’t want to be friends with a foster kid. Fishing was my way of getting away from all the crap life seemed to be dishing out to me. I could lose myself in happy thoughts for a short while.
I started fishing catfish and that was no challenge at all. It wasn’t until I started brook trout fishing that I started to learn that fish aren’t always everywhere in a stream.
I learned how to scan the water and see all the potential feeding lanes and structure. The fact that I caught brook trout in the places I thought they would be gave me confidence on new waters. I could read the water in just a few minutes which made the difference between catching and just fishing.
I learned that in the spring the fish were in different areas they weren’t in later in the year. I also learned that the trout like well oxygenated water that is cool. This lead me to learn where other streams and springs feed the streams and brooks I fished so that I knew where the coolest water was at any given time of the year.
When I take friends fishing I try to teach them a little of what I have learned over the years so they can enjoy sport fishing New Brunswick as much as I do.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I have always had good luck catching fish where the creeks and streams meet the larger body of water.I have a spot on the river where I go fishing for whitebass, that I have good luck quite a bit.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:11 am
When I first moved to New Brunswick I spent months finding new brooks to fish. It was a great way to spend my first summer in the Maritimes.
We have stripped bass here but I have yet to fish them. They are not that far away from where I live but I never think about them until someone tells me it already happened.