Salmon in the system

Conditions were heating up on the river after a very hot day on Thursday.

A few anglers were hooking fish in the system, and many were hitting the water early mornings and late evenings do to the hot weather.

Guide Andrew Anthony of the Ledges Inn landed two grilse in the doaktown area of the river in the AM. Guide Rodney Colford and clients Jim Brown and son Tyler Brown both landed a grilse at Floes Pool in the late evening.

Much of the NW and SW were reporting hookups and seeing a good sign of fish through out the system.

River Temperatures were in the 70's on Thursday and air temperatures are expected to stay in the high 30's degrees (C) until Sunday with this high humidity.

Flies of choice were blue bombers, green machines, John Olin's and the almost.

Tight lines and may your reels be screaming on the river! Rodney Colford

Fishing good on the Miramichi

With ideal conditions on the Miramichi it has been a bit of mixed fishing the past week. Where some anglers are hooking fish, while others are seeing fish and saying there not taking too well.
With the middle section of the river getting into prime levels for fishing the lower stretch is still very high with fish everywhere.

Derek Munn of the Ledges Inn said fishing was good with guest hooking a few fish. River levels are ideal and a few fresh fish were showing moving up stream. Our sister lodge at Mountain Channel was having good luck and hooked 9 salmon on Tuesday.

W.W.Doaks & Sons said fishing was picking up. Fishermen were hooking a few on shady ladies, bonnie bells and white tail green machines.

Norma Brennan of Curtis Miramichi River Outfitters said fishing was very good in the Blackville area. Many fishermen were landing fish. Norma said fish were jumping all over the river.
Temperatures are very good as of Wednesday around 62 to 65 (f).

Keith Wilson of Wilson's Sporting Camps said fishing was superb and guest were very happy with seeing fresh fish.

Guide Gary Colford of Country Haven said fishing was good and saw lots of fish. He hooked and landed 5 this week on white tail green machines.

So with a great run on the way for the start of July and a mix of salmon and grilse it's looking good for the system.
Lets hope with the warm weather on the way the next few days will be short stay to keep the salmon running.

Tip for the coming week is to beat the heat and fish early mornings and late evenings to up your catch.

Tight lines and may your reels be screeching on the Miramichi.

Salmon run slowed a little on the Miramichi

Atlantic salmon fishing became very damp over the weekend as the river raised a couple feet.
Conditions remained clear with good visibility and a few fish were being hooked just the same.
Many fishermen said there were still a few salmon and grilse running, but the run seemed to slow down a tad from last weekend.
River temperatures are very good staying in the low 60's (F). Flies of choice were glitter bears, undertakers, Bonnie bells and green machines.
Tight lines Rodney Colford

Fishing weather improving on the Miramichi

After a great weekend on the Miramichi, Salmon fishing was slow on the river Monday and Tuesday as hot weather drove river temps up into the 70's and fish were not taking very well.
Wednesday was much better as river conditions were back in the 60's (f).
This should keep fish coming into the system like they have been doing.
Salmon have already started to hold up in colder water pools at the mouth of brooks and streams.
A few anglers have been hooking up in the mornings, but the evening fishing was very slow the last few days.

Derek Munn of the Ledges Inn said fishing was very good the past week. They landed over 20 salmon. Conditions were good until the warm days heated the river up.

Keith Wilson of Wilson’s Sporting Camps said the weather warmed up a bit but conditions are still ideal for migrating salmon . We are seeing plenty of salmon on the move and plenty of smiles from anglers up and down the system .
Byron Coughlan of Country Haven Lodge said fishing was good the past week. A couple days were slow as the river warmed up. We are seeing lots of fish moving up stream maybe most we have ever saw for the month of June, even with the warm weather.
Miramichi City Surplus said anglers were seeing a good run of fish on the Sevogle River. Fly of choice was a silver grey.
The NW Miramichi is getting very low. Michael Mackinnon said fishing was great the past week but the catching was a little slow. Two rods only landed 5 fish, and saw very few fish moving.
Fly of choice for most of the river is the white tail green machine number 8 & 6's, Conrad's, and a few bombers of different colours.
The next week is looking good for fishing as the weather is calling for a mix of rain and cloudy weather, fishermen's weather. This should get the North West back to much better conditions.
As for the South West Miramichi, just cooler temperatures would be awesome to improve the fishing.
Until next time have tight lines on the river. Rodney Colford

Grilse and Salmon running on the Miramichi

The Miramichi river had good runs of Salmon and Grilse this week.

15 year old Zachery Colford with a chrome beauty 

Fly fishing conditions were very good this week on the NW, LSW and Sevogle rivers. Temperatures were around 60' degrees (F) and crystal clear with great levels for fly fishing and canoeing.
Flies of choice for many anglers were green machines, butterflies, black ghost and glitter bears.

Zachery with his first salmon of the season

The main SW is still on the high-side for the lower stretch of the river but anglers are hooking very good numbers of salmon and a few grilse all week.

Doaktown area is improving to almost perfect levels and lots of fish being hooked.

Adam Murphy releasing a nice grilse

The upper stretch of the river is starting to see some salmon and grilse, and with great reports of large sea trout landed. Chris Legere landed a 7lb speckled on fly. Many other trout were landed in the 2 to 4 pound range. Conditions are very clear and temps are hovering around 60 degrees on the SW Miramichi.

Chris Legere and his huge trout 6 to 7 lbs in the head waters

Chris Legere again with his speckled trout

John Vickery with his first of the season

Tributaries like the Renous, dungarvan, bartholomew and Cains river are all at very good levels with salmon and grilse being hooked.

Tommy, Stanson & Rod with Renous Grilse

Stanson Donovan 

Tommy Hallihan

Picture of the Renous by Stanson Donovan

Flies of choice are green machines, butterflies, blue charms and undertakers. Dry flies were blue bombers and brown bombers.

Eric Smith releasing a grilse

Other reports on the river.

Derek Munn of The Ledges Inn said fishing was very good with lots of fish. We landed over 12 salmon this week and 3 Grilse. One salmon was close to 30lb landed by Malcolm Mackillop of Ontario on a green machine. Our trout lakes fished very good this week with a couple days having over 50 trout landed each day. Contact the Ledges Inn if your interested in fishing or find us on Facebook.

Malcolm Mackillop

Larry Van Pearson with a nice salmon on dry fly

My son fifteen year old Zachery Colford landed a 20lb salmon on a blue bomber and released two other nice salmon near the mouth of Cains River. Eric smith and Adam Murphy each landed a grilse. John Vickery landed a couple salmon. Larry Van Pearson landed a couple salmon. Steven moody landed a 15lb salmon.

Another pic of Zachs salmon

Keith Wilson of Wilson’s Sporting Camps brings you good news all around . He said the river is in superb shape with higher than normal water, and cool temps . And best of all they are hearing good reports from anglers up and down the river of good fishing . Last week it was mostly larger salmon but this week there is a good mix of grilse showing up . Green machine and Bonnie Bell seem to be the fly of choice .

Bonnie Bell

So with a great week on the river and early into the season things are looking very good for the 2013season. If the salmon keeps coming like the past week and with the river dropping we should see very good fishing this weekend and into the next week.

Zach holding my salmon on the Miramichi

For more cool pictures and reports visit W.W.Doaks Miramichi Salmon Gallery & Reports by local fishermen. Or visit there shop at www.wwdoak.com

Tight lines and may your reels be screaming on the river.

Rodney Colford