5th July 2010

Another warm day but with some cloud cover.  Luke did land (1) salmon in the morning and brought his fishing day to an end.

Water temperature climbed and we saw an abrupt end to fish showing and nothing touched through afternoon into evening.

I haven't heard from the crew in at Depot Pool, should have a report shortly.

4th July 2010

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Todd with his second salmon ever on green machine white tag.

Nice day, a little too hot for comfortable fishing but we do have a strong  run of salmon, one local report indicates schools of 3-5 fish every five minutes, we are seeing salmon on the shallow bars with the occassional fish showing lower in the pool.  Not taking well with (1)  grilse hooked this morning on a Green Machine White Tag,  In the evening (3) grilse landed (1) lost.

Water is low and again dropping fast.

3'd July 2010

Windy cloudy day, saw a number of salmon working up river, was interesting to see a run traverse a set of rapids looking  for more water.  The water is low for this time of year. 

Black Bear crossed to McCarty Island this morning. 

Grilse taken in the morning and Aaron landed a nice 32 inch salmon around 3:30 PM, # 8 Green Machine White Tag. Not a lot of fish showing and they seem to be finicky when it comes to grabbing a fly - time  for those # 10 hooks.

Picture is fuzzy as it was taken at a distance across the river.

The available dates in July (19-20-21st) have now been taken - we had three calls on them and we are now receiving bookings for July 2011.

2nd July 2010

Sun finally broke through, we have a slight wind on the river.  Steady run of salmon working up river but not taking well.  Saw dozens of fish in the air or porposing and threw everything at them until 9PM, three rods and not a strike.

1st July 2010

1st July, hard to believe, squalls all day plus hail, so much for summer.  Fish are not showing or taking well, saw one in the air, raised one and  (2) grilse were landed one on a "shady lady" the other on a "White Butt Green Machine" derivative.

We saw 1/2 dozen fish in the evening and even had a couple rise to the fly but unable to hook one.  Clients fished Gray Rapids for part of the day and report the same thing happening, lots of  fish with only the odd one taking.

A reminder we have 19-20-21st July open due to a cancellation and there should be fish around.

29th June 2010

Water is up slightly with a few fish showing but they are there.  (2) taken from pool this afternoon,  One on a "Shady Lady" one on a "Green Machine White Tag".

We have had a cancellation for July 19,20,21st if anyone is interested?  Please contact us right away as I imagine these dates will be grabbed, this being hopefully in the middle of the bright salmon run.

28th June 2010

Lite rain and the fish don't seem to mind.  At the moment we have have a steady run of fish, but most seem to have lock jaw.  Eric is in the unenviable position of keeping this one at 10 in the morning or putting it back and fishing the rest of the day - we have all been there, done that, never to catch another fish that day.  Fishing won out and this grisle continues up river :)

Note Mark's rain hat, claims his father never packed enough clothes for him!

Greg, reporting the following re Norwest, Crown Reserve:

"Hi guys, I just got a call from DNR regarding our Depot Crown Water Trip. It will be barbless-catch and release only.--- The changes are effective June 30, 2010 at midnight." --- barbless, hook & release on North West Miramichi and tributaries"  (Little Southwest & Sevogule)

Thanks Greg

27th June 2010

Can safely report an increase in fish traffic today. In 3 hr on the river I saw 11 in the air, several were very small grilse, (1) very large salmon, 

As our current clients were booking in they got to see fish jumping.  There were rods on the river for a good part of the day, one fish raised but nothing taken

26th June 2010

A very nice way to start the day.  This fish was taken 08:00 after 10 minutes fishing. We saw 2 salmon in the afternoon and had reports of fish being taken at Clearwater in past few days.

25th June 2010

Late afternoon we had a few salmon work through the pool, (1) hooked/lost and two other seen moving upriver.  Water is at a good level and nice and cool after the rains and the prediction is for more so it looks like everything is coming together,