Labrador recommendations

[peipl]

I am planning a drive in trip to labrador (via Quebec)in late June, early July for brook trout fishing and I am wondering if anyone has had experience doing this and if they have any lakes or rivers close to the highway that they'd recommend and flies they have had success with ?

[Kathy Scott]

Hi,

Are you driving up from the Quebec side (mainland) or crossing on the ferry from Newfoundland?

The former, I only hope to explore some day.

We did the latter last summer (the entire circuit road is scheduled to be complete in a year or two), and wished we'd reserved the ferry from Happy Valley to Cartwright so we could have made the loop.

In any event, we were there in early August, and found small beautiful brook trout eager in every stream but many of those southern Lab coastal streams scheduled for salmon and therefore off limits without a guide.

All Maine blackflies, I'm pretty sure, go to Labrador for a summer vacation, too

Have fun,

Kat

[Kathy Scott]

BTW - crossing the Newfoundland ferry is actually accessing Labrador from Quebec, too (that's where the ferry lands - a couple miles into Quebec), is why I asked

I assume you're driving up the mainland way,
Kat

[peipl]

Thanks, were going up through Baie Comeau QC. What was the name of the Quebec town that Ferry put you in ?

[fcch]

peipl,

If you go through Baie Comeau. you might want to check out Baie Trinity for sea run brooks. It might be a bit early in the season, but some may be schooling in the estuary.

BIG FUN !!

p.s. Late June, flies won't be a problem ... there will be TONS of Blackflies


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Christopher Chin
Jonquiere Quebec
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[Dahema]

I call that road up the North Shore from quebec City to Baie Comeau and straight up to Lab City/Wabush the "Bataan Death March". Did it once...*never* again. Fly up...trust me..you'll be MUCH happier.

Dahema

[peipl]

Was it the distance, road conditions, other ?

Thanks

[fcch]

Piepl,

I think we would be refering to BOTH ! (Oh ... and add the transport trucks to the list of nasties)

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Christopher Chin
Jonquiere Quebec
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[Kathy Scott]

Hmmm.. we traveled across from St Barbe, NFLD, to Blanc Sablon, then drove north until the blacktop ran out at Red Bay (that part alone was amazing - the scenery (rocky and barren or coniferous), the history, the bakeapple pie), but then followed the gravel up to Cartwright.

I don't remember any transport trucks, but our nerves may have been steeled by all these years on Maine logging roads. I do remember David driving 50 mph in our 4WD pickup on the gravel and yet it was so smooth I could write in my journal.

Some interesting sidelights: little stores closed for lunchtime (it wasn't always posted, the doors would just be locked), there WERE stores for foods and local foods and gas, and there were Maritime Archaic grave sites and 430 million year old fossil reefs, old Grenfell "hospital" outposts, and accessible Internet offerings at little local schools.

I'd go back in a minute, and will soon, but we'll probably drive the Loop. And we'll take the bug jackets again...

My 4wt cane was fine, and I used caddis flies.

Kat

[rnelson]

O.K. I'll admit I don't get around much. When I saw the subject line I thought, what an odd post on a fly fishing web site but what the heck, I can recommend a couple good kennels.

"Well, thats very different. Never mind!"

Sincerely,

E. Latella