With low water and high temperatures the fishing was never going to be easy. We fished five rivers over 7 days: The York, the St. Jean, the Dartmouth, the Grande and the Pabos Nord. All of the rivers were delightfully different from each other and in a most stunning part of the world.

There were 14 fishermen at the lodge and  the week proved to be quite tough. Two fish over 30 lbs were landed for the group as well as about a dozen over 20 lb.

The highlight of such a trip has to be the specatularly beautiful rivers with the wonderful clarity that enables you to sight fish to a salmon and watch its reaction. 

One of my most memorable moments of the trip was a fresh fish I caught off the Grande river. The fish had refused all patterns and techniques for most of the morning until I crossed the river to get a different swing across the fish's nose. First cast with a collie dog, striped back upstream, made the salmon lunge from its lie into about 4" of water to slash at the fly. It missed, but 6 casts later the fish charged the fly again, hit with a vengence and then tore off 150 metres downstream, leaping 6 times on its first run. It turned out to be a fresh 23lb hen.