PRIVATE AND PUBLIC WATER WE FISH ON THE MIRAMICHI RIVER
THE UPPER NORTHWEST MIRAMICHI
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Smoker Brook Pool is located at the confluence of Smoker Brook and the Northwest Miramichi. The pool is best fished and waded in moderate to low water. Holding fish through much of the season Smoker Brook has always been one of our best producing pools. This pool is the heart of what we refer to as our up river beats Located 12 miles above the head of tide this beat offers six excellent runs and five pools within a two mile section .There is also 10 miles of open water with numerous productive and rarely used waters to take advantage of.
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 The Urquhart Run
A short walk above Smoker Brook is a real gem when "the run is on" fast flat water runs over a gravel bar and leads down slope into a deep trough and large boulders at center stream. Best fished May June July when the salmon are on the move but produces salmon through the season or whenever they are moving. |
 Marlins Run
Just up river from smoker Brook Pool this pool is excellent in very high to moderate water levels. Easy access and moderate wading. over the years marlins run has given us our first salmon of the year. Fishing well in May in good water the big early hens seem to like to rest around its boulders and rocks |
 McLaughlin Brook is located just down stream from Smoker Brook. its gravel bar extends across the river and creates a restriction and very shallow water at the top end. The current shifts left, constricts down to 30 feet wide, deepens and heads toward the bank and all kinds of nice holding structure and some substrate.
This pool fishes well all season but is a real favorite in June and July when the big run is moving thru and again in the fall when more fish hold in its depths. |
Camp pool is just around the corner down stream from Smoker Brook. Its deep slow dark waters offer ledges and substrate. It is an easy wade and fishes well through the season. Not a good high water pool and a boat is needed if the water is high it is best fished in moderate to low water conditions. Again its a real favorite in the fall.
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 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.
It fishes well under all but the lowest water conditions. |
 Pool #3
A three minute walk or 30 seconds in a boat to this pool, 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
A five minute walk or two minute boat ride from the lodge 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
A short boat ride upriver from the lodge brings us to this pool. 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
5 Min upriver from the lodge brings us to this pool. 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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Smoker Brook Lodge is one of
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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