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Fly Fishing Poll
In NE Canada I Would Like To Fly Fish For ..

Atlantic Salmon
Brook Trout
Steelhead
Sea Run Brown Trout



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·Canada: Atlantic Salmon & Sea Run Brook Trout
·Quebec: Brook Trout Tactics
·Walleye: Lac La Ronge, Northeast of Prince Albert Canada
·Nova Scotia Atlantic Salmon: Wear Your Woolies
·Nymphing For Monster Brown Trout: Canada Border
·New Brunswick Canada: Early Run Atlantic Salmon
·Teno River: Home Of The World Record Salmon
·Fly Fishing Canada: Gear Wake Up Call
·Fly Fishing Canada: Early Season Atlantics
·Atlantic Salmon: Weighted Streamers, Why Not Weighted Nymphs?
·Miramichi vs. Gaspe?: The Search For Bright Atlantic Salmon
·Atlantic Salmon 101: A Fish I Have Always Admired
·Fly Fishing Nova Scotia: Sea Run Browns
·Atlantic Salmon Fly Tying: Riffling Hitch
·Fly Fishing Canada: Lowering Costs
·Canada: Fishing Rules And Regulations
·Atlantic Salmon: Gaspe, Hook Size Regulations
·Gaspe Atlantic Salmon: Early Water Draw
·Alantic Salmon Journal: A Great Source

 
Tips, Ties And Tactics Fly Fishing Canada: Early Season Atlantics
Posted by patm on Thursday, February 01 @ 04:16:24 PST

The purist will say the hold over, or black salmon are not the same as the fresh silver fish. This may be so, but they sure are there in numbers and anxious to take your fly offering. I have fished the Restigouche River and the Maramchi for black salmon. I have fished as early as April and as late as Memorial Day weekend. These fish have spent the long winter in the river and as they head to sea they are ravenous. Streamer patterns on a swing drift can result in 10 hook ups a day. The fish will leap from the run and give your gear a true work out. . You will need to hire a guide with a boat as wading is impossible during the spring. The trips I have taken have been much more affordable then the traditional salmon season. If you want to have a real shot at catching atlantic salmon, and you can get by the "oh thats a black" then don't disregard the early spring season.

The long and the short of it is hungry Salmon on their return to the sea eat your streamers in far greater numbers than fish coming in.



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Re: Fly Fishing Canada: Early Season Atlantics
by greg on Thursday, February 01 @ 11:10:41 PST
there are a lot of people out there of like mind when it comes to Salmon fishing. I know a number of people who, as you like Spring Black Salmon fishing. Because they are looking for food and will take a fly.



Re: Fly Fishing Canada: Early Season Atlantics
by Keith on Friday, February 02 @ 14:37:47 PST
Pat I too have fished for kelts and had a great time. My motive was to hook an atlantic, and the kelts were more than cooperative. As you said they were full of fight and i even hook one salmon that took to the air eight times! Good fun for sure.
Keith


 
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