Best Fishing Spots in New Brunswick

New Brunswick sits between the Atlantic and the interior, and its fishing reflects both. Mapped waters are almost entirely natural lakes, low-lying at a median of 94 metres, with the whole province in the temperate band. The ocean moderates the winter, so ice forms but less dependably than in Quebec or Ontario, and the open season runs longer at both ends. Atlantic salmon dominates the province's fishing culture and carries strict and frequently revised regulation, with river closures that can arrive mid-season. The Bay of Fundy on the southern coast has the largest tides in the world, which shapes coastal fishing there in a way found nowhere else in Canada, and tidal waters run under federal rather than provincial rules. The catalogue covers 668 waters in New Brunswick, spread over 12 counties. In terms of type, natural lakes lead and ponds follow. By area, nothing beats Oromocto Lake at about 40 sq km. Across the listed waters the coldest month averages -9°C and the warmest 18°C. Most of these waters open up around mid April in an average year. Records return American eel, alewife, rainbow smelt and Atlantic salmon more often than anything else....