Going to PEI and New Brunswick any suggestions

[Trilynx]

I will be heading out to the maritimes for two weeks at the end of July with the family. Any suggestions for fishing, honna be staying in the Borden-Carleton area.

Thanks,
Steve

[greatwhite]

You don't need a license to fish in the ocean, always fish as the tide comes in.

It's been quite a few years (12) since I last fished in PEI for cod and mackerel. Most fishing charters will also give you enough fish for a meal assuming some have been caught.

[line052]

Shore fishing from Government docks. You can catch Boston Blue Fish (Capt Highliner brand) This is fish is Pollock and is quite good, we used to treat as garbage fish as kids in NS. Appears there is a market for it now. Bait, collect periwinkles and smash up, or get lucky like the wife and I, and the workers brought us out squid scrapes. Beware of the sculpin..ugly fish and scary looking, but treat the same as catfish with spines. Have fun and maybe you will get lucky and catch some sea run trout...very tasty.

[greatwhite]

That's a coincidence. When we caught Pollock my Grampe (Grand Father) use to say the exact same thing. Pollock was garbage and the same with the sculpin.

If you decide to dig for clams be sure to check the clam hotline and it will tell you where the safe clams are. Do not dig any clams if your not sure. If the red tides have been in the poisons in the clams will kill you long before you make it to a Hospital.

Reminds me about 10 years ago my buddy and I told my parents we were going camping and maybe dig some clams. Well the next morning there was an article in the news paper that two men (our age) were in the hospital from eating clams. My parents frantically called the Hospital trying to find out if it was us.

Shore fishing from Government docks. You can catch Boston Blue Fish (Capt Highliner brand) This is fish is Pollock and is quite good, we used to treat as garbage fish as kids in NS. Appears there is a market for it now. Bait, collect periwinkles and smash up, or get lucky like the wife and I, and the workers brought us out squid scrapes. Beware of the sculpin..ugly fish and scary looking, but treat the same as catfish with spines. Have fun and maybe you will get lucky and catch some sea run trout...very tasty.

[MuskieBait]

Just came back after spending 10 days in Atlantic Canada. We camped and hiked Gros Morne National Park, Cape Breton Highland National Park, PEI National Park, Fundy National Park and Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park.

From the east coast, I caught 7 new species as follow:

Newfoundland - Shorthorn Sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius), Rock Gunnel (Pholis gunnellus)

Nova Scotia - Longhorn Sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus)

Prince Edward Island - Winter Flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus), Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), Blackspotted Stickleback (Gasterosteus wheatlandi)

New Brunswick - Atlantic Tomcod (Microgadus tomcod)

There were Cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus) aka Bergall everywhere. I also caught some juvenile Atlantic Cod close to shore.

I'll be posting a travel report in about a week with pictures of all these species. Stay tuned.

There were Brook Trout in many of the streams, but freshwater fish requires a license in every provinces, plus I can catch Brook Trout here in Ontario, so I didn't even bother.

When I was there in mid-June, the water was still too cold for inshore Mackerel and Pollock. The lobster fishermen at the wharfs said the ice had just left the harbours two weeks prior. There was a very short run of Mackerel through St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia 3rd week of May, but it came and went very quickly. Locals say it was a very late spring and Mackerel may not enter inshore waters consistently until early July.

[captain cotton]

Im looking forward to this report being posted. I quite enjoyed the fishing in PEI when I was there last year and love hearing about people experiences out there.

[greatwhite]

Back in the 1980's I can remember hand-lining for Mackerel and Cod in PEI and you literally hauled in fish all day. The biggest Cod I caught was around 4 ft. Mackeral one after the other. Everyone was given a feed and the Captain would sell the rest.

In NS we once (3 of us) brought in over 3 creates or about 300 pounds of Mackeral which we sold at the market I think I got about 25 cents a pound in Yarmouth.

From the wharfs in NS you could fill 20 liter buckets with flounder and not those tiny ones you see in the stores, sometimes you got the odd halibut. You don't see that much anymore when the Irving's closed access to the wharfs to the scallops and fish trawlers the flounder disappeared (no more free meals).

Im looking forward to this report being posted. I quite enjoyed the fishing in PEI when I was there last year and love hearing about people experiences out there.

[Trilynx]

Well I think I will get the 5 day license for the family and put the kids on some trout. Not many quick access spots for brookies here in eastern Ontario. Give them something new to hook into.

[terrym]

Bring us back some lobster. How big is your vehicle?

[Trilynx]

F150 and TT