It is safe to say that between half and three quarters of the summer salmon catch will occur in this very short period. Remember that the size quality of next year's salmon fishery depends on a significant amount of carryover of legal fish from this year. Fish need time to grow if they are ever to attain larger sizes. So, for the sake of producing older larger fish in the future, let some of your legal catch go back alive. Togue continue to be taken near the surface on many of our waters but as surface temperatures warm, those with deep gear will do best.
Action continues to increase on the area's trout ponds with warming water temperatures.
Trout have started feeding in earnest and catch rates will improve as insect hatches increase. Bass fishermen are finding cooperative fish, especially in the southern waters of the region. Spring stocking of legal brook trout is on-going throughout the region. These fish provide instant fishing in some waters with marginal habitat. In other waters, these trout will provide summer-long fishing.