River report for The Miramichi River in the Doaktown area as of September 6th.  Well we finally got some much needed rain from hurricane Earl and looks like some more rain and showers this week. When it was all said and done we received about an 8 inch raise in water and with the cooler nights the water temperature was in the mid 60's yesterday and I expect it to be down around 60 today as it is only 6 (42) degrees when I arrived this morning. It wasn't as much of a raise as I would've liked but it was enough to turn the fish on, lastnight we had 4 fishermen on the water and hooked 9 fish, landing 6 and had many more raises and lookers. The fish that we hooked were all very scrapy and full of energy two of the fish were in the 16 lb range. At Mountain Channel they hooked a couple fish yesterday morning but it picked up lastnight and they got into good numbers of fish also. With this raise in water this should get the fall run started and some fresh fish moving into the system.

Tight Lines!!!

Derek Munn

Dick Audas with a nice 16lb hen, this was the biggest of the 3 he landed yesterday.