29th June 2012

Water high but dropping, strong West wind all day.  Finally some fish are moving in, hugging the shore line.

27th June 2012

Two straight days of rain with more on the way.  River is high.  Our fishermen haven't even ventured on the water. 

25th June 2012

Rains have brought the river to a nice level and temperature, more rain perdicted.  We have had rods on the river for the past 3 days with no fish.  I do have confirmation of a 10# salmon being taken at Salmon Brook, so at least one got by.  Counting stations are reporting low numbers, only a fraction of last years count.

21st June 2012

Rods on the water for past couple of days, not a sign of a salmon.  Down river reports are the same with the exception of the "dream catchers".  High day time temperatures are driving the water temp up and seeing the water level drop.  One would be hard pressed to run a canoe through the rapids at this point without getting out and walking.

Calling for rain through this weekend, looking forward to it.  if you are going fishing take a cold pack and deck of cards.

17th June 2012

Water continues to drop.  Very low for this time of year,  no sign of the salmon run and with this heat they may hold up in the cold water pools waiting for a rise in the river.

I have only heard of one verified salmon up this way and it was taken at salmon brook.  Most recent guests put a nice effort in but only came up with a few trout.

Lots of kayak's on the river, grad students enjoying nature.

13th June 2012

Water is low and continues to drop. 

Although I keep hearing of the odd salmon being caught, everything seems to be hearsay and at this point unconfirmed.  We have had people on the river for short periods of time for past few days, picked up some small trout but not seen a trace of a salmon.

7th June 2012

Guess I got a bit ahead of myself.  We still have sea run trout moving through.  Reports from Doaktown and upriver of seeing good trout fishing in fits and spurts.  You just have to be at the right place at the right time.  Even with the cool weather and rain the river is dropping fast.

6th June 2012

Well it's confirmed, the "sea trout" got by, they are now residing in Juniper by the hundreds, those few we were picking up were stragglers.  The brights are getting nearer by the day and the odd one is already by.

3'd June 2012

Blustery windy day from the East - not a fishermans envy.

Our cottage visitors tried a bit of fishing yesterday with no luck and slept through a Black Bear showing off across from the cottage.  Wendy and I greatly appreciated the lobster they brought us and the raccoons tried desperately to get into the lobster remnants overnight.

I was out for an hour yesterday evening after seeing a large fish jump, either a very large trout or a grilse and my upstream neighbour reports seeing a large fish roll.  All I picked up was a few 10-13 inch river trout.  There are not a lot of fish showing at the moment but I'm sure the odd one is sneaking through.


Some of our clients who have heard that the cottage may be going on the market at the end of this season have contacted us lementing the loss or trying to book into 2013. 
It's sure nice to have loyal clintale but we have to move on and be able to get away and enjoy our short NB summers during our retirement.