Click here to listen to an interview by the Miramichi Salmon Association with the late John Swan, CRSA’s 2026 Sporting Artist, and Luther Hall.
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Click here to listen to an interview by the Miramichi Salmon Association with the late John Swan, CRSA’s 2026 Sporting Artist, and Luther Hall.
Brad Burns, CRSA 2026 President’s Award Recipient
Brad Burns has avidly pursued striped bass, brook trout, Atlantic salmon and a host of other game fish for over 60 years. Brad was at the forefront of the 1990s fly fishing for striped bass wave and wrote the
L.L. Bean Fly Fishing for Striped Bass Handbook, and along with John Cole, co-authored
Fly Fishing for Saltwater’s Finest, and recapped his years in the salt with
Black Spruce Stream and
Maine to Montauk. He was also a masthead writer for
Fly Fishing In Salt Waters magazine.
In 2002 Brad turned his attention to Miramichi Atlantic salmon fishing. He later wrote
Closing the Season and
On the Cains, the latter being a book that many people think is historically valuable to the Miramichi River system.
Fishery conservation has been a big part of Brad’s life. He is one of the founders of Stripers Forever, spent years on the board of the Coastal Conservation Association, and is currently the president of the Miramichi Salmon Association U.S.
Brad has fished from Ungava to Russia for Atlantic salmon, but spends most of his fishing time on New Brunswick’s Miramichi and Cains Rivers.
