Funny weather this time of year. On October 31st I was fishing in the sun and by Nov 6th we had our first snow. Today, Nov 11th, I was wearing a light jacket to walk to the Remembrance Day ceremonies at the little park down the street. It is sunny and...

The fall salmon season is over. It ended on Halloween day. All told the season was great, lots of big fish hooked in the rivers draining into the Northumberland Strait and Gulf of St. Lawrence. My season was not great in terms of fish landed but was...

Well, I'm finally feeling well enough again to go after some of those Nova Scotia Fall Salmon. I stopped by the Fishin' Fever shop to pick up a salmon licence and Mr. Short confessed to having had some considerable luck connecting with fish in the...

Get a load of this. We've added a new puppy to the family and another is on the way in mid-December. This little guy is Shorty, a Maltese puppy we have had for three days. I'm going to add a new cliche to my lexicon, "as cute as a new puppy" 'cause...

If you looked at the press release below you will see that the grant is to study the effects of culverts on fish passage in the St Marys river system. Turns out that this a problem in many, maybe even most river systems - around here anyway. ...