Archive for July, 2007
Posted by Keith on 30 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
Once again the river is up nearly 14 inches and the weather has cooled down. EJ and I were at Cold Water pool early Sunday morning to see the river still normal height and the pool quite . Within the hour salmon began to jumping all over and it appeared they were
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Posted by Keith on 27 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
The fishing was great till mid week , then the weather turned hot and the fish turned off . The water height is still good but of course the heat is doing a job on taking fish . One angler managed to hook two
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Posted by Keith on 21 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
EJ and I headed to Dudley pool this morning on yet another 2 inch raise in the river and cloudy skies with rain nearby . My first pass through the pool I hooked and landed a nice grilse , EJ gets half way through and nails this beautiful 15 pound hen . The fish was [...]
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Posted by Keith on 20 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
As we enter into the fourth week of July it is still hard to believe the great water conditions and cool weather . We have had three nice rises in the last ten days , thus keeping the fish moving well but not taking so well . It is common to roll a fish [...]
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Posted by Keith on 17 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
Lynsey ( one of my three children ) and I spent an evening together on the water recently with perfect water conditions, fish moving through , had all the right gear , even the perfect cast , but landed no fish . Catching the fish was the least important thing on [...]
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Posted by Keith on 12 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
The following press release by the Atlantic Salmon Federation proves that the money you spend on membership dues , dinner tickets , raffle tickets etc.etc. is being well invested . Bill Taylor and all the hard workers involved in the ASF deserve a round of applause for their tireless efforts in their worldwide [...]
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Posted by Keith on 12 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
Bill Taylors mid season report indicates that all eastern Canada rivers were late this year but encouraging news of the fish finally getting here . The following report is for most areas of eastern Canada . Read more for Bill’s report
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Posted by Keith on 12 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
Anglers are enjoying river and weather conditions almost too good to be true . Temps are cool and the water is superb . We are obviously into the June run because of the high number of MSW salmon , such as this beauty that Steve landed just this morning . Another interesting note is that [...]
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Posted by Keith on 08 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
Why were our salmon late this year ? The unofficial theory from an ASF biologist and others in the field , is that there was a huge ice pack that was sitting in the Strait Of Bellisle , and it was in the mirgatory route of the salmon on their way back from [...]
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Posted by Keith on 08 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
Hey folks-
The “June Run” was late getting here but now on perfect water and weather we have fish . Early in the week was fantastic and now a big raise in water along with cool temps forecast to continue all this week should set the stage for more good fishing on the way . [...]
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Posted by Keith on 07 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
How good can it get , there is a big fresh run of salmon and grilse and another good raise of water that should keep them moving along . The high water of course hurts the Blackville area pools but in McNamee with all the islands and small pools and further upstream with the [...]
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Posted by Keith on 05 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
Dear Ms. Sweeney,
below is a copy of my response ( CBC feedback on web site ) to the bad news you delivered on July 3rd . It is unfortunate that you did not get more into the reasons of why the fish were late , followed up with the fact that we are now enjoying [...]
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Posted by Keith on 05 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
On July 3rd I was approached by CBC TV to do an interview about the “late run ” of our June salmon . MSA also gave their theory on the cold water and ice pack off of the Strait of Bele Isle and how this may have affected the arrival of the June run , [...]
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Posted by Keith on 03 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Miramichi River Report
After weeks of perfect water and weather conditions it appears that our “June Run” is finally in the system . A little late but a welcome sight for sure . All camps and anglers from down river are reporting great fishing and Wilson’s got
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