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A friend of my mine, who asked me many years ago to take him fishing with me, showed me a place that he would catch a few brook trout a year. He told me they run around 8 inches but that he had never left the road to see what the river actually looked like. I don’t know if I could fish a spot at the road, catch fish but never venture into the bush to see what’s in there.

Well a couple of years after he showed me that little spot I took another fishing buddy, but we headed into the bush to see what we could find.

I could see why people would just fish the culvart there and leave the rest. We walked into the bush and everywhere we looked it was trash, even old rusty cars and a few dead animals farms had just thrown in there.

We continued for about 15 minutes and couldn’t even get our lines wet there was so much cover over the river. But then, just about the time we were going to turn around and head back to the car we came to a clearing and the river opened up.

We caught trout immediately. It was great. It went from not being about to get a line wet to where we could walk side by side down the river. What a day we had.

It just goes to show that you can’t really tell what a river or brook is like unless you fish it.

I had never, ever caught or seen a brown trout in New Brunswick but this day I caught two brown trout. I was exstatic and couldn’t stop talking about it. I actually caught a brown trout, heck I didn’t really think we had brown trout here at all.

Kerry and I walked that river all day until it was dark and still hadn’t seen a road. We weren’t sure how much longer we should stay in the river. We knew there was a road on either side of the river, we just weren’t sure how far away they were.

Then we heard voices. There was a father and son fishing from the bank just in front of us. We asked how far it was to the road and the dad said about a 3 minute walk ahead of us.

Then he asked where we were parked. I laughed and said it was a day’s walk behind us.

He told us to wait at the bridge ahead of us and when they were done they would pick us up and take us to our car. It was 5 miles to the car and that would have been a long walk in the dark. Especially when we didn’t know how far away it was, plus we had on our waders and boots so it would have been a tougher walk.

I know that when we hit that spot this year we will leave a bike hidden by the bridge so that Jamie will be able to ride and get the car. Notice I said Jamie would, Ha, he’s much younger than I am and in much better shape.

We didn’t take our fly rods in because we thought it was all bush and would be really tough to use the fly rods but I will be sure to take it with me on the next trek in.

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