The Miramichi river was running fast and high on Monday after the rain we got last week. It was impossible to get a fly down to the salmon, so we continued on to the coast to fish stripers. The run isn't in full swing yet, but we managed to catch and release enough that we lost count. One keeper came home with me for the fryer. It took us a while to find the stripers, but we found them holding up in shallow bays where the water is a few degrees warmer.
Yesterday was a different story, the flow had calmed down enough that we could effectively fish slack pockets in the river where salmon will hold. Scrounged this one up swinging a 2/0 streamer. Hard to beat fighting these fish on a fly rod. It took me the better part of 15 minutes to bring it in, every time I got it close to the boat, it would go on a run and peel out all the progress I made.
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