This past week has been our best so far this season. Low water conditions since the beginning of the season have slowed down our run of fresh salmon. There are plenty of fish in the estuary just waiting for a bump in water levels. Dont get me wrong, we have good numbers of salmon in our rivers but a little rain would certainly help and give us a much needed boost. That being said, we did see a good run of fresh salmon over the past week.
Martin Weaver from Argentina has been coming to Camp Bonaventure for many years, this is his 21st salmon of the week! Need I say more.
Water temperatures are still relatively cool for this time of year and the high tides this weekend and early next week should bring us another nice run.
Keith Lovelock with his first Bonaventure salmon, Congratulations Keith.
The Bonaventure is flowing at 16 Cubic meter per second which is not too far from normal for the end of July. Fishing on the Bony has been very good with good numbers of salmon and grilse in the book each day. The Petite Cascapedia is flowing at 13 cubic meters per second, for this time of the season is 20 is the norm. The Petite is low at the moment however with a nice number of salmon in the river and cool water temperatures, we’re doing very well.
Peter Bennet (Left) with and his dad, John Bennett, nice one guys!
The Grand Cascapedia is flowing at 24 cubic meters, normal for the end of July. The Grand has been giving us some nice fish but it could use some rain. as well.
Eric Forgie (Right) with Camp Bonaventure Guide Bruno LePage, this was Eric’s first on a dry fly1, Nicely done !
The hot fly’s for the week have been a mixture of dry’s and small wets. Green, Blue and Dark Brown Bombers were responsible for most of the catches. In the wet fly depatment, the John Olin, Green Butt and Silver Rat did the job. The Out to Lunch and Green Spey also did well on the Grand and Petite. The sizes that are working best are number 8’s 10’s and 12’s.
John Ouelette (right) has been coming to Camp Bonaventure for many years, he and Camp B guide Carol Barrault are indeed a very happy pair.
And just how Happy!!!
Until next week,
Tight Lines,
Glenn
