Species

Smallmouth Bass are common throughout Nova Scotia and can be targeted all year round using a variety of techniques from jerkbaits in spring to dropshots and ned rigs in the heat of summer.
Pickerel are active in all seasons and will relentlessly chase a variety of lures. On the right day topwater action for pickerel will thrill even the most seasoned angler.
Striped Bass enter the Shubenecadie and Stewiacke Rivers in spring, and can be caught all summer long on the Bay of Fundy or Northumberland Strait through the summer. Grand Lake provides fantastic opportunities for stripers starting in September and through to ice-up.
Micro fishing is the art of using extremely tiny hooks to chase equally as tiny species of fish. This type of fishing is typically done in an effort to add species to lifetime lists. Micro fishing can be done an any body of water but wading streams often provides for the best opportunities.
Nova Scotia has a bounty of trout species and opportunities to catch them, from rainbow trout on the big water of the Bras Dor Lake, to brown trout in rivers of the Northumberland Shore, and brook trout throughout streams all over the province.
Shad enter the rivers to spawn in spring, and these “Poor Man’s Salmon” can be targeted from early May to mid June most years. Light spinning rods with shad darts or 5 weight fly rods and colourful weighted shad flies will hook you into these acrobatic fish.