My family and I are on vacation before we move to Ontario back home where I grew up in Newfoundland.   For a week we are up on the Bonavista Peninsula staying in Newman's Cove, the town where my Dad grew up and I spent many summers as a boy with my Pop.   We are actually renting Pop's old house, so this trip has a very special significance for me remembering all those days when Pop would send me to Woody's store as a 5 year old to get him a pack of smokes.... but I digress! Yesterday and today I was able to get out in the harbor on my Old Town Predator PDL and chase so ..read more

Well with the recent news that I have accepted a new position with Amazon, I'll sadly be moving my family off to Windsor, Ontario.   So the For Sale sign goes up on the front lawn today and my home of 11 years is officially on the market. We purchased this home back in 2006 and had envisioned it being our one and only home.   We absolutely love it here and couldn't have asked for a better place to raise our kids and I certianly made use of the abundant space to store my kayaks and fishing gear!   That being said, another family is going to have the opportunity to capitalize ..read more

So this past weekend, the day after the Catch 'n Kayak striped bass derby in Bathurst I got out for a quick fish with IPop and Noah.   It was a beautiful morning, and we each caught a few fish, all was going great.   Now when I'm in the Old Town Predator PDL, I like to troll by sticking my rod handle behind my butt on the seat, and then peddling.   If I were to use they rod holders that I have, the handle of the rod would impede my peddling.   Trolling this way is comfortable, allows me to to keep a hand free (thought I usually rest it on the rod), and react quickly if a f ..read more

This weekend is the first of what will be an annual kayak fishing event in the town of Bathurst, NB.   It is going to easily be the biggest kayak fishing event in all of Eastern Canada in terms of prizes with both lots of cash and other items including a new kayak up for grabs!    There is a shore fishing division as well for those folk who do not wish to participate in kayak. The Catch n' Kayak tournament will be a striped bass catch/photo/release fishing tournament held on Saturday, and promises to be a fantastic time.  Mother Nature looks to be cooperating as the fore ..read more

Well this is a difficult post to make.   Unfortunately, come the end of July, my time fishing in New Brunswick will have come to an end.  Over the past several weeks I have been in conversations with one of the biggest and best companies in the world, Amazon and have been recently offered a position as a Software Development Engineer with them based out of Detroit, MI.    This opportunity is one that for me professionally, I cannot pass up, though it was a difficult decision for my family. So sometime in August I will be moving with my family to the Windsor, Ontario area ..read more

A wonderful day for fishing! Well for the first time ever I can say I won a fishing derby!    But really, that comes secondary to the great memories made again this weekend up on Salmon River near Chipman, NB.   Sam, Ralph and the others that work to make this event an annual event do a fantastic job running this community level derby and ensuring that everyone has a wonderful day of fishing. Who will win and become immortalized this year? As usual we gathered at the Queens County Inn in Chipman for a wonderful breakfast donated to the participants of the derb ..read more

Joe with a nice Drum This past weekend I made a trip to central Canada where I spent a day in the downtown Detroit area followed by a weekend of fishing with a fellow kayak angler.   One of the great things about social media and the sport of kayak fishing is that you get to meet, at least virtually, a lot of outstanding people, not just across the country but in some cases across the world!   In this case, Joe Lafontaine, a very accomplished and well known kayak angler in the city of Windsor, offered his hospitality to me for the weekend.   It was very much appreciate ..read more

Yesterday, a Sunday, we had a beautiful day with next to no wind, so it was a perfect opportunity to take my whole family out for a little adventure.   I loaded up a kayak for each of us, Anna packed a lunch and we headed off to the Cameron Road in Rothesay where there is a nice little beach to launch kayaks.  From there we made our way across to the beautiful Long Island.   For those folk who are lucky enough to have a cabin out on the island, I'm jealous! Rowan took his Tetra 10 kayak, Fynn was in the Trident 11, Anna took the Predator 13, and I jumped in the Predator PDL ..read more

A Striper like Matt's could very well be the winner! In recent weeks some of the folk who work for the City of Bathurst on NB's Eastern shore contacted me to get my thoughts on a proposed new fishing tournament.   The idea was to put on a Striped Bass tournament in and around the Bay of Chaleur in mid-July when the annual run of stripers is in full swing in the area. Already in the nearby town of Miramichi, the Striper Cup is held in late May and is one of the biggest fishing tournaments in all of Canada, bringing in an amazing 20,000 people!    Now the Miramichi ..read more

51 Inch caught and released on Saturday.  Congrats Remi! Water levels have risen considerably in the Kennebecasis with the river almost touching Norton Shore road in places.   With the rise in water, the sturgeon have much more area to explore, with large fields of wild bushes now several feet underwater. First ever sturgeon for Kaitlyn, great job! Peddling up the main channel of the river using the Humminbird Helix 5 SI fish finder, I no longer am able to mark any schools of sturgeon as I was prior to the rise in water levels.   There are scattered sturgeon h ..read more