Fishing Friends – Beyond simply enjoying a few days in camp, my goal for the opening days of the Miramichi 2024 salmon season was to try and catch a salmon kelt in the upriver area of the Cains that Harry Allen fished in the early years of the 20th century.  As Allen’s parties canoed down the Cains from Bantalor, their first day out was really just a wilderness canoe trip.  According to the old, …Read More →

Fishing Friends – on Monday, April 15, 2024 yet another Atlantic salmon and brooktrout fishing season will open on the Miramichi River.  I’m headed up on Sunday and am very much looking forward to being back on the river.  By normal standards for mid-April the river is not high, and there is very little snow in the woods to add to the flow.  We are expecting over an inch of rain from now until, …Read More →