The Joy of Fly Fishing in New Brunswick

As the previous post points out Jamie and I were out chasing a few pickerel around the Salmon River in the Chipman, New Brunswick area. Couldn’t have asked for a better day. It was a great day but kind of a strange day when it came to catching those pickerel.

Fishing Chain Pickerel on the Salmon River, New Brunswick

The first thing I realized was the amount of line I had on my spool. The first cast I made went right to the spool. I don’t know how I missed that, guess I was a bit too eager to get out fishing.

I decided to cut off the braided line that was worn and had turned white from the original black. When I went into my tackle bag to get more line it wasn’t there. My son had taken it out to use on his reel and didn’t bother to put it back. We’ll have a talk about that.

So I fished the entire day with almost no line and must admit that I did pretty good.

You can see in the image above that we stopped the canoe to check out what looks like a farmers field, off Salmon river, that was flooded with about 3 feet of water. Last year I caught a really nice pickerel here so of course we couldn’t pass it by.

I had a lot of pickerel chasing my plastic worm but they just seemed to ignore Jamie’s offerings. I was trying to figure out why I was getting all the action but nothing seemed to work for Jamie.

I told Jamie I had added a bullet weight to the front of the worm so that it was more sub-surface, so he gave that a try but still nothing.

Where’d You Get That Pink Worm?

What is kinda funny though, I still had on the pink plastic worm Jamie gave me last year just before the fishing season closed. I forgot to take the plastic worm off the hook on my rod so I just left it on. I thought it would be funny, I think I said something like it was the only bait I had.

I should probably buy a bag of those pink plastic worms to give to Jamie as I borrowed so many of them last year. I am sure I cleaned Jamie right out of them.

The chain pickerel really seems to love that pink worm Jamie, thanks

I have a terrible habit of grabbing fish the wrong way. I guess that comes from so many years without taking pictures and just catching and releasing. I will work on that on our next outing, maybe I will get it right and get a good picture.

I also forgot my thermometer as I wanted to get the water temperature, I will try to remember that for the next trip as well.