As I’m writing this river report, sitting in the screened in porch of The Club on the Bonaventure, I can’t help but admire my surroundings. The sun is shining, the birds are signing, the river is making its own beautiful music and the laughter of our kitchen/lodge staff is flowing through the camp. As difficult as circumstances have been this past year, we are so very fortunate to be back for another season.
The view of the beautiful Bonaventure River from our screened in porch at The Club on the Bonaventure
We had the pleasure of welcoming home some great friends this past week at Camp Bonaventure, Salmon Lodge and The Club. To re-connect, laugh and share stories felt just as good as landing that first salmon of the season.
A big congratulations to Eric Bouvier, a first time guest at Salmon Lodge, who landed this beauty on the Grand Cascapedia with our wonderful guide Jean-Marc! Way to go Eric! It was a pleasure welcoming you to Salmon Lodge and introducing you to the art of fly fishing!
We were treated fairly on the weather front this week. We had our share of sun, fresh mornings, cooler nights and a day or two of strong undesirable wind. We were promised rain at the tail end of the week but perhaps it’ll make its appearance today… For early June, we are experiencing July conditions. The Bonaventure River is flowing at 25.7 cubic meters per second, the Grand Cascapedia is at 20.9 cubic meters per second and the Petite is flowing at 17.8 cubic meters per second. Although these are not all-time low levels, they are unfortunately lower than average for this time of our season. If anybody is owed a favour from Mother Nature, perhaps you could cash in on some rain for us here on the Coast.
A big congratulations to Dylan Beauchamp who landed this silver bullet on the Bonaventure River! What a stunning Salmon! Also, a much needed shout-out to Charles-Hubert Carré, our new guide at The Club on the Bonaventure who broke the ice this season with Dylan!
The flies of choice for this week were a mixture of dry’s and small wets. Dark Blue and Brown bombers caught the salmon’s attention as the John Olin, Green Butt and Stone Ghost for the wet flies.
At this time I would like to introduce two new guides we have the pleasure of working with this season! Alexis Gagné will be guiding out of Salmon Lodge and Charles-Hubert Carré will be guiding out of The Club on the Bonaventure. Welcome to the team boys!
Welcome Alexis!
Welcome Charles!
Until next week, here’s to health, happiness and tight lines.
Julia
