Miramichi Salmon Club
816 Main Street E9C1Z3 Doaktown, NB, Canada

Fisheries and Oceans Canada Gulf Region Reopening of recreational fisheries for all species on the Miramichi River system Tracadie August 17, 2020 - Fisheries and Oceans Canada wishes to inform the public that, following an improvement in water conditions, angling for all species of fish will reopen without daily fishing period restriction in the Miramichi River, including the Northwest Miramichi River, the Little Southwest Miramichi River, the Big Sevogle River, the Main S...outhwest Miramichi River, Rocky Brook, Clearwater Brook, the Renous River, the Dungarvon River, Bartholomew River, the Cains River as per the strategy implemented in cooperation with local partners to respond to warm waters conditions. The reopening will be effective as of Tuesday August 18, 2020. Please note that the 27 salmon fishing pools in the Miramichi River system, closed on July 21, 2020, will remain closed to angling for all species of fish until conditions improve. Reminder: please note that the three following pools will remain closed until December 31, 2020: Confluence of Sutherland Brook and Northwest Miramichi River, including the waters of Sutherland Brook upstream to the Highway 420; Waters of the Southwest Miramichi River in Quarryville, 300 m upstream and 300 m downstream of the Quarryville Bridge, including Indian Town Brook from its confluence with the Southwest Miramichi River, upstream to Highway 108 bridge; Confluence of Wilson Brook and Southwest Miramichi River, including the waters of Wilson Brook 100 m upstream of its mouth, an area locally known as the Bear Den; For further details, please consult the Gulf Variation Order 2020-103 for further details. The Orders Registry is available online at: Orders Registry - Order summaries for existing fisheries To report any suspicious fishing activity, please contact the nearest Conservation and Protection detachment in the Gulf Region or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 See more

Bush Hogging 7PM Saturday evening. I said "Colin it's Saturday, don't you have someplace to be" ? He said, "it's Saturday, thought it was Tuesday". Yup it's a bad fishing season.

http://www.inter.dfo-mpo.gc.ca//Temporary-closure-Salmon-p

http://www.glf.dfo-mpo.gc.ca//Temporary-closure-Salmon-poo

First day of summer and the first salmon plowing by MSC. It's been awfully hot but we've seen several over the past 2 weeks in the pools while getting ready for opening day today. We need rain badly and no more 90F/32C days, in fact we hit 97F Friday, water is cooling nicely the past 2 days.

Hopefully this rainbow is luck for the season. Water is very good now, fishing is as usual for early June with not much happening. I've been out over a 5 mile stretch for a week now, nothing but a few dozen shad in one spot yesterday. Cheers and tight lines, we need a good season.

Very windy the past few days, not many on the water. I hear the fishing is slow with mostly grilse being caught. Water is low and cold, I don't think they are moving much. Some think the fish are leaving but I doubt that, they won't leave until the water is above 45F/7C. If we get a good rain Friday I think things will pick up next week. I haven't been out but nice to see all the boats on the weekend, fishing and not catching is not so bad after all. I had a very good friend from Nova Scotia, John Dodge, he said more than once "there's more to fishing than fishing". He was a prisioner for several years during WW2, kind of puts things in perspective.

This video is from the Ness River in Scotland, this will stir the fishing blood. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Looking through an old guest book at MSC and came across these two fishermen, August 29, 1986.

https://miramichisalmon.ca/river-cam/

https://www2.gnb.ca//departments/erd/natural_resources.html

DFO and the ASF say they they won't support the CAST program until it's a crisis situation, if this isn't a crisis I don't know what constitutes one. In the month of August, always our worst month, we caught 7 grilse and 33 bass, wow, usually we get about 80 salmon and grilse. In the past week or so, we've had perfect conditions for the fall run, caught a couple of green slimy brook fish, not a fresh one. The Miramichi is dying fast and nothing is being done, a 100 million dollar industry for New Brunswick is going down the tube. Keep up your ignorance for this situation and we can use the river for tubing and canoeing. So sad.

https://www.facebook.com/CastforSalmon/

Notice to Recreational Anglers Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Region Angling for all species in the Miramichi River system restricted to 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. daily due to high water temperatures

http://www.inter.dfo-mpo.gc.ca//Details-salmon-pools-closed

http://www.inter.dfo-mpo.gc.ca//Reopening-salmon-holding-p

http://www.inter.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Gulf/Orders-Registry/Report

https://www.giverontheriver.com//2017-056-Salmon-pool-clos

Hot weather last weekend slowed things to a crawl but a salmon and 3 grilse landed this morning. Even a moose cooling off. Very happy bunch, thanks Chris.

First timer gets a beauty at Home Pool.

Big difference since yesterday.

Beware downriver. The big jam at Miramichi Salmon Club has just pulled away. It is big !!!