The Joy of Fly Fishing in New Brunswick

I remember when I first moved down to New Brunswick, more than 30 years ago, my brother-in-law told me where I could catch some nice brook trout. It was a brook the flowed from New Horton Lake and he was right, but I had never, in all those years, fished the lake, until now.

My friend Casey has told me about it every time we have gone fishing and just the other day I returned home from my early morning walk.

When I returned home I logged onto a fishing forum we frequent, Casey saw that I was online and sent me PM asking if I wanted to go fishing. What a question to ask me, so I grabbed the phone and gave him a call.

An hour later we were on our way fishing.

I am always watching the trees in my backyard to see how the wind is blowing and this day they were very still, not the slightest breeze going, my favorite way to go fishing.

I remember Casey telling me that New Horton Lake didn’t take much to get really choppy as it’s a fairly large body of water.

However, when we got there the lake was like a mirror reflecting the sky and surrounding hills. Simply breath taking, and of course very exciting to see.

Casey could not have picked a better day to call me to go to New Horton Lake as it’s been windy here for about the last two months and that we make it pretty rough to fish.

We caught some white perch to start with but as the day went on we started getting some action from the smallmouth bass in the lake. It seemed that after the water temp went from 65 degrees to almost 70 degrees they started getting more lively.

I had never seen a white perch. The picture shows a rather small one but I guess they get to be 14 or so inches and fight just as hard as a bass.

Casey was doing the catching at the start and then I started catching as well. It took me a little time to find just the right lures to use.

We stopped and hit a few weed patches although the weeds aren’t up much yet, they need another couple of weeks and they will be really perfect.

But the largest bass of the day, caught by Casey, right before we were leaving for the day.

Casey’s really dark bass measured in at 17″ and fought hard and jumped high out of the water a few times, just to make it more exciting.

I told Casey I was going to modify the picture using Photoshop but he worked to hard for me to do that to him, this time around.

Does Casey look happy or what? Congrats and thanks for the awesome day.