3 cool Canadian fishing getaways to check out this summer

Take a trip for NB bronzebacks, Ontario’s backcountry trout or Winnipeg’s wild channel cats

SPEDNIC LAKE

Expect to catch good numbers of feisty three-pound-plus smallmouth bass on Spednic Lake, lying on the border between New Brunswick and Maine. The bass fare so well because of their protein-rich diet of rainbow smelt and landlocked alewives. Topwater poppers, #4 Mepps spinners and tube jigs work well, and if you get tired of catching bronzebacks, you can always go after the Spednic’s chain pickerel.

Learn more: 1-800-561-0123; www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca

—GORD PYZER

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