Tire-Free Rivers: Saint John River #s 88-90, New Brunswick, Canada

Tire-Free Rivers

Saint John River, New Brunswick, #s 88-90

Saint John River, #s 88-90

Ken Corbett, Numbers 89-91, September 23, Saint John River, 2008.

As so often is the case, I had my sights set on a shoreside tire farther upstream. But I found these three in the cove beside the northern end of the Fredericton walking bridge before I got there.

It was a three-way triple play. I set the hook in number 88 from my canoe, paddled to shore and hauled it in.

For number 89, I cast my hook from shore out 15 feet to where it lay, snagged it and hauled it in. It only took me fifteen casts to set the hook. I like to think of it as a sport, one I'm getting better at.

I picked number 90 off the shore at the water's edge, it was easy as pie.

Number 89 in situ. Note the dead area inside its rim.

After fifteen casts, I have set the hook in Number 89. If you look closely, you can see the tire in the upper right-hand corner.

There is a fair amount of silt dislodged as I haul in Number 89. The river will deal with it in time.

Number 89 is beached and ready to be cleaned. I held it with the hook and swished it in the water to remove the mud from inside the rims, it took just a couple of minutes.

Numbers 89-90 are ready to be unloaded, and hauled to my back yard for the documentation shot, then off to the tire recycling plant in Minto. This is the meeting of the rivers Nashwaak and Saint John.

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