Home waters and private beats on the Cains River
There are a dozen salmon pools within the bounds of the property. Of these, 3 have cold water tributaries flowing into the Cains which provide a cool, well oxygenated environment conducive to holding salmon. Sabbies River Pool (home pool) Salmon Brook Pool and Picard Brook Pool hold fish throughout the summer. Fishing is predominantly by wading and pools are all easily accessed from the main lodge by walking, 26foot canoes with jet outboards or the more traditional poling canoe.
During the spring and fall run all pools are teeming with salmon. The Cains River is also known for its excellent wild brook trout and the Sea run brookies that enter the river to spawn in late May early June.
More beats available to our guests
THE UPPER NORTHWEST MIRAMICHI
 The loop as locally described is always a guest and guide favorite. Your guide will pole the 20foot canoe down river and watch for salmon as you go. You will stop and fish several of the 2 dozen pools on the way. Some of the more productive pools include Dr. Wilson's, Stickney, Diggers, Halfway, Tomogonops, The Hawthorn, Blacks, The Turnip Patch, Portage river, Miners, Allison's, McLaughlin Island, Kingston's, The Turn, Browns and Cable.In addition to these there are dozens of pools and runs that are only accessible by canoeing the river and you are most often the only people within sight! |
THE LOWER NORTHWEST MIRAMICHI
 Pool #1
Blow the head of tide on the Lower Northwest Miramichi this pool is where it all starts. Fishing the tides adds an interesting dimension to this pool. this is normally as low on the river as we go. The salmon tend to bunch up here awaiting a high tide or more water to make it up over the first few shallow bars. Easy wading and short casts are all you need to be successful here. These pools are best waded in low water and can be fished by boat in high water. |
 Pool # 2
Still in the tidal zone this pool was by far our most productive this season. Salmon would consistently lay over here between tides waiting to go up. All easy wading and easy casting make this pool a real favorite.
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 Pool #3
The pool fishes best in higher water and when the salmon are on the move. A gravel bar with a nice tight run down the far side fishes well in high water and can be easily waded but is best fished by boat in high water. This is also the favorite fishing site for the three resident bald eagles. |
 Pool #4
This pool is a big wide flat pool below a gravel bar. Good fishing through the season and an excellent spot to stalk some real fall monsters. Located just above the official head of tide this pool will hold large fall spawners that wont be heading any further up river.
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 Pool # 5
Deep slow water with huge submerged car sized boulders define the holding water. Below the boulders is great summer and fall dry fly water and its not unusual to have several hundred fish holding in the lower parts of this pool once September arrives. fished equally well from boat or by wading.
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 Pool # 6
One of the largest beats we fish this pool is really several beats. The west side is strait forward easy wading or boat fishing in high water. the center, and best water, is only fishable from a boat in good water conditions. during high and falling tides this beat can be a great producer. |
 Pool # 7
The top end and east channel of the bar and small island this run channels the salmon down to a manageable 20 foot wide gap. Easy wading in all but the highest water this pools produces salmon from May to October. |
 Pool # 7
This little pool is deceptive. The river is spread out at this point and runs over several very shallow bars. On the east side there is a deep cut were all the salmon go thru. In higher water you would miss it altogether. It can be fished by boat or by wading. |
 Pool # 8
This large slow pool leads into two channels and most of the salmon take the east side where they face quick water and lots of boulders. Easy wading and short casts are all you need to fish this pool. there is also three more bars above the run that fish well when the salmon are on the move.
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 Pool # 9
Located at the mouth of a major tributary this pool is big deep and slow. it fishes well throughout the season but is best in the fall. Best fished from boat at any water level. But the top end of the pool at the run it can be fished by wading. |
 Pool # 10
One of our guests favorite spots. We are now 20min by boat up river and nestled in and surrounded by higher ground on both side of the river. this pool hold salmon year round and is one of our better producers (that's because our guests like fishing it so much) This pool is huge and can easily accommodated a group of rods but as always we only fish two rods on any of our waters.
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 Pool # 11
Fast moving, deep and lots of structure make fishing this pool a challenge. Best fished from boats on the east side, it is wadable in lower water from the west side but it requires a long cast to reach the holding spots. a great bit of water for two handed rods!!
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 Pool # 12
A real sweet spot at the bottom of an Island this pool is by far Buddy Silliker's (our head guide) favorite beat. Best fished in higher water it can be fished by boat or by wading. |
 Pools 13,14 and 15
Are all good runs fishing well in June July and again in the fall while salmon are moving. |
Coming soon!
The Southwest Miramichi
The Big Sevogle
The Little Southwest Miramichi
The Renous
The Cains
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Outside Magazine
25 trips of a lifetime.
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It was sea-bright and strong, an honest 14 pounds. It was also Harry Briscoe's fourth hook-up in less than half an hour.
Fly Rod & Reel
Traveling Angler
March 2004
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With more than 500 miles of fishable water, the Miramichi watershed is, without rival, the largest, most productive Atlantic salmon system in North America.
ASJ winter 2001
"Mother Miramichi" |
No sooner does a well-traveled angler think he has discovered the elusive answer to the mystery of why some salmon take and others don't, does he come face to face with a terrible truth: the only good theory is no theory.
"A Numbers Game"
by Jim Repine
Autumn 2003
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