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Discussion starter · #764 ·
Fishing was great on Monday in Strathadm and Millstream for people fishing from boats Congrats Marty93 on the great fishing you and your buddies had. People fishing from shore had great luck as well especially st the end of the old Morrisey bridge on the Chatham head side. Tuesday was a little slower but still ok and Wednesday was a lot slower for many people. I fished yesterday and started just below the Red a Bank bridge. Tried a few spots and we didn’t land a fish until we got to Strathadam. We only landed half a dozen there in like an hour so kept moving down towards Miramcihi. We ended up at the wharf in Nelson and did really well there with the two of us having like 5-10 double headers and landing 40 plus fish in like a couple hours. The northwest is still a bit stained or brown but not bad and should be pretty clear by the weekend. The main Southwest was a lot clearer by the Nelson wharf.
 
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NWbassman said:
Fishing was great on Monday in Strathadm and Millstream for people fishing from boats Congrats Marty93 on the great fishing you and your buddies had. People fishing from shore had great luck as well especially st the end of the old Morrisey bridge on the Chatham head side. Tuesday was a little slower but still ok and Wednesday was a lot slower for many people. I fished yesterday and started just below the Red a Bank bridge. Tried a few spots and we didn't land a fish until we got to Strathadam. We only landed half a dozen there in like an hour so kept moving down towards Miramcihi. We ended up at the wharf in Nelson and did really well there with the two of us having like 5-10 double headers and landing 40 plus fish in like a couple hours. The northwest is still a bit stained or brown but not bad and should be pretty clear by the weekend. The main Southwest was a lot clearer by the Nelson wharf.
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NWbassman said:
Fishing was great on Monday in Strathadm and Millstream for people fishing from boats Congrats Marty93 on the great fishing you and your buddies had. People fishing from shore had great luck as well especially st the end of the old Morrisey bridge on the Chatham head side. Tuesday was a little slower but still ok and Wednesday was a lot slower for many people. I fished yesterday and started just below the Red a Bank bridge. Tried a few spots and we didn't land a fish until we got to Strathadam. We only landed half a dozen there in like an hour so kept moving down towards Miramcihi. We ended up at the wharf in Nelson and did really well there with the two of us having like 5-10 double headers and landing 40 plus fish in like a couple hours. The northwest is still a bit stained or brown but not bad and should be pretty clear by the weekend. The main Southwest was a lot clearer by the Nelson wharf.
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Discussion starter · #768 ·
Marty93 thanks for the kind words. I'm just glad the info I post is helpful to other fisherman and even if the info helps a little it's worth posting as some days I spend hours answering questions about fishing from this site, from Facebook and from texts. I have met lots of great people on this site and have made some really good friends as well. I have fished with and guided many people from this site as well. I don't post info or answer questions to make money or for any gains but some members have even went so far as giving me a gift or something to show their appreciation which they did not have to do at all. No one knows everything there is to know about fishing and a person can always learn something new from other fisherman if they are willing to learn. I know I must have driven my dad and other fisherman crazy when I was younger always asking them questions and asking them to take me fishing lol so I'm just sharing some of what i have learned from them and also from what I learned through trial and error during the thousands of hours I've spent on the water over the past 35 to 40 or so years fishing this beautiful river. The river was my babysitter when I was younger, my friend, my fix for when I was feeling down, my way to relax, a source of income over the past 30 years so fishing and being on the river isn't just something I do it's a large part of who I am.
Yes maybe see you on the river this week as I'm guiding all week. Tomorrow I'm starting at 12 and guiding till 9pm then from 8am to 5pm for rhe rest of the week.
Norman
 
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The fish were right downtown today. Not a ton but most people got a limit. You had to work for them and chase them around a bit but they were available. About 16 boats were out at times around the city area.

Some more boats were up by Beaubear's but I don't know how they made out.
 
Discussion starter · #772 ·
kHz your very welcome and sorry for the slow response Fishing from shore has been tough this week in the Red Bank/Cassillis area. I have been guiding a fly fisherman since Tuesday and have only gotten three or four fish in two days We are mostly trolling. NBwhite ther are lots of bass around as there are lots showing up on the fish finder from miramichi all the way to Red Bank. Even though the weather was warm all weekend the water temps dropped from a high of 53.5 on Friday down to around 42 or 43 on Monday. The reason for the water temp drop was all the ice cold water that flowed into the river due to the snow melting up river over the weekend.
 
#776 ·
Fishing is ok, nothing to be excited about as of today. It is picking up daily, numbers are finally starting to increase in the small fish, schoolies, rats. Big fish are a bit harder to pick up. Water is at 55 today below beaubears.
Slow spring and massive schools are slow to get in river this year. The peak is usually now and through to striper cup. But it appears this year the peak will be more towards the cup wkd which is great if you don't mind fishing in that zoo.
I generally let that chaos pass, fish before and after the cup.
But the spawn appears that it'll be a bit late.
Red bank should be teaming with fish right now, but as Norman stated a bit slow up there yet. Keep in mind though the trip up there for bass in a 24 hr move. One day there in miramichi, the next red bank is full.
Hope that helps
 
Discussion starter · #777 ·
I guided a gentleman from Ontario who was fly fishing and we had a very tough fishing For the first 3 1/2 days we might have landed 6-8 stripers. This eve we headed out with very little optimism of anything changing. We were wrong-way wrong! From the time we started around 630 it was non stop action till we were don’t at 930. Not sure how many fish he landed as it was as soon as he got his hook in the water and started trolling another one hit We were down 6.5 kms below the Red Bank bridge where rhe williamstown road meets route 420. There were gulls everywhere picking off smelts and bass splashing as they chased smelts It was a feeding frenzy and we were right in the middle of it. There were prob another 10-15 boats on the same general area and everyone was catching fish The fish splashing from there all the way up the the Red Bank bridge as they chased an fed on smelts They were spalahing like they do when spawning this was strictly feeding activity Still too cold for spawning as temps were in the low 50sF this eve. What a great way for my client to end a four day trip. He never once complained about the slow fishing during the first 3 1/2 days and was rewarded this eve big time. Another satisfied client!!
 
Discussion starter · #778 ·
The river has been full of stripers all spring as they spend the winter under the ice in fresh water. Salt water has a lower freezing temp than fresh water so the water in miramichi river can be 2degrees ccius warmer than salt water along the coast during the winter . It’s the late spring and lots of snow up river that has been melting on these warm days keeping the water temps down. With lots of snow up river melting over the past couple of weeks there has been lots of ice cold water flowing into the river system. Last fiday we landed over 150 between three of us at the Nelson wharf when the water temp was 53.5. From saturdayv till today the water temp were anywhere from the low 40s to the 50F and it doesn’t matter how many fish are there when water temps are in the low to mid 40s they vast majority of them are going to be pretty tight lipped and hard to catch The only time you are really going to get fish when the river temps are really cold are when they are in the staging areas before they start heading upriver to spawn. These staging areas are large shallow flat areas that warm up quicker than the main part of the river There were day this week when people were saying there were no fish in the Cassillis area yet but the fish finder was showing large schools of fish and certain places I could feel my hook bouncing off of fish but they wouldn’t hit. This even when fishing turned on water temps were up to 53F and there were smelts everywhere and the bite turned on like some one flipped a light switch. There were bass feeding-splashing and making waves under the surface everywhere from 7pm and later while before that we only caught one fish all day. Two degrees Fahrenheit makes a world of difference when it comes to catching bass. I personally feel the magic number is between 53-55 for the bass to turn on and start feeding heavily. Sure you can catch some when water temps are cooler but when water temps reach the 53-55 mark the fishing is going to start being really good and as the water continues to warm over the next couple of weeks the fishing is only going to get better and better. So the best is yet to come!
 
Discussion starter · #779 ·
Atoqwa’su I’m pretty sure when the striper cup first started the date was picked as to when the organizers felt there would be the most bass around and unfortunately this is during the peak of the spawn. This is the fourth year of the tourney and only the second year of the river closure during peak spawning. They had to go by when they felt there would be lots of stripers around and the last weekend in May was a safe bet for organizers. If we have an early spring the spawn could begin as early and the second week of May but with a cold spring with cooler temps for the first couple of weeks the spawning could be delayed until the first week of June. The peak of the spawn could occur over a two to three week period so I don’t think the the tourney date was picked to be a week after the spawning peak to prevent damage to the bass as the spawning didn’t peak until after the striper cup over the past two years from what I can remember off the top of my head. I remember spawning had started mid May in 2016 but just before the cup we got really cold weather and rain which shut the spawn completely off and the bass left the spawning grounds and went back down towards the deeper water in miramichi. This made for VERY hard fishing during the cup A few days later the weather warmed back up and rhe bass returned to the spawning grounds in the Red Bank and Cassillis area and spawning resumed with the peak spawning activity happening during the first week of June It’s all up to Mother Nature
 
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