The LaHave runs ninety-seven kilometres from its source in Annapolis County down through the woods and farmland of Nova Scotia's South Shore, bisecting Bridgewater before it opens into a long tidal estuary at LaHave and Riverport. It is a classic Atlantic-province river of dark, soft, lightly bog-stained water over a glaciated bed of rock and gravel. The salmon-bearing heart of it lies above Morgan Falls, where a fish ladder lifts the run into the upper river that produces most of the system's smolts. The fishery has been hard-pressed of late — invasive chain pickerel in the lower system prey on the smolts — but the upper river remains the stronghold. The character is steady, moderate-gradient freestone water with defined holding pools. Wading is secure on firm rock and gravel, with the usual care below the falls and weirs.

Wading: Deeper holding pools below Morgan Falls