Fishing Pickerel at French Lake in New Brunswick

Please take a look at my new post describing my day fishing at French Lake yesterday for chain pickerel.

Trout Fly Fishing

I have written a post on some tips for people who are new to fly fishing.  Please give it a read at Trout Fly Fishing.

Pickerel Fishing

I have written a blog about some tips and techniques for pickerel fishing.  I have posted it on my other blog site. Please have a look.

Fly Fishing Trout

I always enjoy getting out on the water to do some fishing but I really enjoy getting out to fly fish for trout in New Brunswick.  One of my favorite places to fly fish for trout is at Crooked Creek, which is in Riverside Albert.  Over the past 10-15 years I have spent countless days there catching rainbow trout with the fly rod.  For more detail about my experiences at Crooked Creek click on the link.

Fishing Fun In New Brunswick Website

Hello Everyone,
I wanted to let you know that I have started a new Fishing Fun in New Brunswick website on my own server and would love for you to check it out and bookmark it.  I will most likely be updating that site more than this one now. Please become a regular follower and post comments.  I enjoy reading and responding you your comments.  The site is new but I will steadily be adding content for trout, smallmouth bass, chain pickerel, and salmon fishing.

Thanks
Jamie

Salmon Fishing: Buying Salmon Flies Online

Before I begin this post I want to say I encourage supporting the local people who sell the items you are looking for and I certainly buy my share of items from local people and local stores but I also look online to buy items that interest me, such as salmon flies that I will use when I go salmon fishing.

Yesterday I was surfing the Internet and came across this online store that sells trout and salmon flies along with other items. Since I have started to do some salmon fishing this year I need to start to stock pile my salmon fishing flies. I decided to give them a look to see what types of flies they sell.

I was very pleased to see that they have a very good selection of trout and salmon flies. Even though I wanted to buy a handful of trout flies I did focus of buying salmon flies. Their sidebar has these flies under steelhead/salmon. I also decided to look under the heading bass flies and I did decide to buy some of those flies as I think they would work for fishing salmon as well.

When I was finished placing my order I bought a total of 13 salmon flies, with me buy multiples of some same flies. Not one of the flies cost more than a dollar (US) and shipping to Canada for fishing flies was only $2.88, which if you ask me is an excellent deal.

The store is located in Arlington, Texas but that did not scare me away because of their very low shipping cost. I just received an email tonight saying the order was shipped today so I will post again post a comment to this post when they arrive to say how long the order took to arrive and what the quality of the flies is like. I am sure they are going to be just fine.

So, if you are someone who likes to go salmon fishing and are always looking for places to buy salmon flies online, why not give this company a try. The name of their company is The Angler's Dream Fly Shop. Give their name a click and give them a look.

Fishing New Brunswick: French Lake

Yesterday I had a fantastic day at French Lake withCasey and James. Casey asked if James and I wanted to go fishing at French Lake. After we bothquickly said yes we had the plans made. Casey picked me up at 5:40 am and then we got James and were on the road. We arrived and got the boaready and were on the water by 7:45.

It was a beautiful morning with no wind.....I repeat no wind!!! We started our way going up the lake. We did some trolling and casting to the edge of the lake where grass and lily pads were growing. We made our way to some bigger patches our lily pads and started to get some strikes from some pickerel. As we continued our way up the lake Casey caught the first pickerel of the day while trolling....he is the trolling king, as he catches many fish using this strategy.


We made our way to one spot of the lake that was a dead end. It was very calm and full of lily pads. We got into some very action and we each must have pulled in two or three pickerel each. When we finished with this spot we continued moving around the lake catching and also getting many hits as we tried different lily pads.

I would say by 11am or so the dreaded wind started to pick up. We started looking for spots to get out of the wind but everywhere we went to it seemed like the wind was always in our face and disturbing the water. By noon it was really windy but we did not let in and continued fishing. Our experience with pickerel fishing is they usually turn off when it gets windy but luckily for us we were still able to catch some pickerel at certain spots. We also spent some time trolling for pickerel and perch. We caught 18 perch while trolling. Some of the perch were a good size.

As the day wore one we continued to look for little coves to get out of the wind. We were able to find a few that gave us a little relief from the wind and James caught the biggest pickerel of the day. It was 24 1/2 inches long and was quite heavy.

When we decided to call it a day we decided to troll back to the boat launch. We each caught a few perch and Casey caught another pickerel.

We kept count of the fish we caught during the day for some bragging-rights fun. By the end of the day James landed 7 perch and 14 pickerel, I caught 4 perch and 12 pickerel, and Casey caught 7 perch and 7 pickerel.

I tried many different lures during the day but James and I had the best luck with the pickerel using a red 6 inch senko Gary Yamamoto Original 5" Senko Worm Color: Fading Watermelon w/Black (194J). I also tried different colored worms. I used a skitter pop, hula popper, rubber frogs and some swimming hard baits. I also used two rods throughout the day.  One was with a spin cast reel and the other one was with a bait casting reel.  I have been using the bait casting reel more.  I am getting better with it fishing from a boat as I find casting from a boat with it is much different than walking a river and fishing with it. Strikeforce SF100SH Baitcasting Reel

As I continue to look around for a 14 foot boat to buy it was really nice to go out on Casey's 16 foot aluminum boat. He has it rigged up very nicely. He made storage areas and even has a cd player so we could listen to music while fishing.

It was a fantastic day with two great fishing buddies!
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