Hi
I have not fished that area myself but a lot of friends do. They have lots of tourneys there, the St. John's river runs right through Fredricton and there is plenty of SM bass to catch, no LM. Do a search for nbfishing.com and the main tourny sight is nbsportfishing.ca.
That will give you lots of information, it is about a 6 hour drive for me and I have plenty of water to fish in Nova Scotia.
Regards; Wayne