Sutter Club Fishing
Sutter Club is a privately-owned salmon fishing club. The Club is located on Miramichi River, a legendary and productive salmon river for Atlantic Salmon. Here are some fishing details:
All facilities and pools are on the Main SW.
Fishing at Sutter is catch and release.
Miramichi River
- The Club lodge is about 25 miles from tidewater
- The Club has properties/pools up and down river from the main lodge upriver from the bridge at Pond’s Resorts and a bit downriver from the bridge at Doaktown
Private water
- In New Brunswick, the owner of land bordering a river owns the fishing rights to the middle of the river
- Anyone can float through private water but they cannot fish except with permission of the owner
Fly fishing only for Atlantic Salmon
- The Miramichi River salmon run typically starts about the 1st of June and continues into October
- The season typically ends on October 15th
- Atlantic salmon can only be fished using a barbless fly
- Sutter’s is an ASF designated Catch & Release only club
Salmon born in the Miramichi
- Stay in the river as parr (~3-5 inches long)
- Parr evolve to smolts over a few years in the river (~ 10 inches long); smolts head out to sea in late spring
- Smolts mature and grow feeding off Greenland and the Faroes Island
- Mature salmon return back to the Miramichi, their place of birth
- As grilse (small salmon- ~4 – 8 lbs) after being at sea for a year
- As salmon (8 lbs and up to 30+ lbs) after being at sea for more than 1 year or after making multiple round trips from the Miramichi to sea and back over multiple years)
- Salmon spawn in the Miramichi in late October and November
- After spawning, the salmon remain in Miramichi over the winter and head back to sea in the spring
- Amazingly, the salmon returning from the sea to the Miramichi do not feed while they are in fresh water