The Maine Sportsman - April 2019

Sportsman The Maine

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FISH STOCKING REPORT Pages 30-40

Introducing A Warden’s Life with Bill Allen

Page 18

Hal Blood’s Ride

Page 58

Disappearing Sea Trout Page 65

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Tim Pond, which has never been stocked, stretches a mile long and is well known for unbelievable fly fishing for native brook trout.

Tim Pond is actually one of only a few ponds

left in Maine that is still all-natural. Although a lot of fishermen practice catch-and-release, each angler is allowed to keep two fish. Brookies are great fighters and a lot of fun to catch, and to eat – if you get “fish-hungry,” the cook will fry up your catch for breakfast!

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Editorial

Proposed CMP Corridor Not in Maine’s Best Long-Term Interests It would not be our first choice to disagree with a new Governor so early in her administration, but in our view Gov. Mills’ enthusiastic support of the proposed CMP corridor is misplaced.

Simply put, we believe the massive construction project is not in the best long-term interests of the State of Maine or its residents.

In reaching this conclusion, we have listened to many of our readers who live and work in the affected regions of the state. We have waded through the 328 (and counting) pages of public comment on file with the Land Use Planning Commission – hand-written notes, letters, emails and reports, submitted by anglers, hunters, guides, abutters, town officials, newcomers, longtime residents, scientists, first responders, hikers, bikers, birders and rafters.

The vast majority, in their own passionate and articulate words, express clear opposition to the plan. They point out that the landscape will be forever altered by the new construction of 53 miles of powerlines through the woods between the Canada border and the Forks, and by the widening of existing powerlines for another 92 miles to the south.

New Hampshire citizens and regulators already rejected plans to use their state as a conduit for power destined for Massachusetts. We believe Maine should follow suit.

There are many good reasons to oppose this plan, but if you are looking for just a single example, consider the Cold Stream Conservation Area – 8,000 acres purchased in 2016, including 3,000 acres of deer wintering area and miles of streams that provide valuable brook trout habitat. The proposed CMP powerline would cross Cold Stream and its tributaries more than 20 times , severely impacting this region, a mere three years after conservationists believed they had preserved the land for future generations.

In our opinion, the foremost value of this region is the future of outdoor recreation and proper forest management, not short-term construction jobs, or vague benefits spread out over decades.

It’s time to take the CMP powerline option off the table.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Almanac by Will Lund........................................................ 12 A Warden’s Life by Warden Lt. Bill Allen (Ret.)................ 18 Aroostook - “The County” by Bill Graves......................... 45 Big Game Hunting by Joe Saltalamachia...................... 48 Big Woods World by Matt Breton..................................... 50 Bird of the Month, by Erika Zambello............................... 16 Capitol Report by George Smith..................................... 19 Downeast Region by Jim Lemieux................................... 66 Editorial.................................................................................. 4 Freshwater Fly Fishing by Lou Zambello........................... 41 Jackman by William Sheldon........................................... 57 Jottings by Jon Lund............................................................ 7 Katahdin Country by William Sheldon............................. 52 Kate’s Wild Kitchen by Kate Krukowski Gooding........... 64 Letters to the Editor.............................................................. 5 Maine Wildlife by Tom Seymour....................................... 24 Maine Wildlife Quiz by Steve Vose................................... 51 Midcoast Report by Tom Seymour................................... 65 Moosehead by Tom Seymour.......................................... 59 New Hampshire by Ethan Emerson.................................. 73 Off-Road Traveler by William Clunie................................ 55 Outdoor Chronicle by Ed Pineau..................................... 44 Quotable Sportsman by George Smith........................... 20 Rangeley Region by William Clunie................................. 70 Riding Shotgun by Robert Summers................................. 76 Sebago to Auburn Region by Tom Roth......................... 69 Self-Propelled Sportsman by Jim Andrews...................... 54 Shooter’s Bench by Col. J.C. Allard................................. 63 Smilin’ Sportsman: Adults & Kids by Will Lund.................. 76 Sportsman’s Journal by King Montgomery....................... 9 Trapping The Silent Places by David Miller...................... 68 Trading Post (Classifieds)................................................... 77 Trout Fishing by Tom Seymour........................................... 42 Western Maine Mountains by William Clunie.................. 72 Young Maine Sportsman by Luke Giampetruzzi............ 74

SPECIAL SECTIONS ATVing in Maine by Steve Vose........................................ 21 Boating in Maine by David Putnam................................. 25 FISH STOCKING REPORT..................................................... 30 Saltwater Fishing in Maine by Barry Gibson.................... 28

On the Cover: Our intrepid freelance photographer Josh Beane declares that this is one of his “absolute favorite” pictures. He explains: “That’s Neena.

She’s my fishing buddy and good luck charm.

At the beginning of 2018 season, I set a goal to catch 100 rainbows before the river closed, and that fish was my 100th rainbow.” The trophy was taken in October in a wet fly nymph.

Letters

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To The Editor

Put a Hook in that Strike Indicator!

To the Editor: I recently read Jon Lund’s piece about nymphing and strike indicators (see “The Red Nail Knot Caper,” December Jottings) in which Jon described trout passing up on a tied fly and instead hitting a lacquered leader knot.

It reminded me of an event in Wyoming last summer. My wife and I were visiting friends who work at Grand Teton National Park in the summer. I fished upstream on the Gros Ventre, which ran nearby. Nothing to show for over an hour of hard work.

Then, when I was drifting a nymph with a florescent red and yellow glob of strike indicator through some deep calm water, up came a large brown and hit the strike indicator!

I had some bright red parachute Adams in my box from a grandchild-teaching event earlier in the summer, and thought, “Why not?” They were the closest I had to the strike indicator. Sure enough, first drift the same fish (I checked by asking) came up and took.

Thanks for letting me share this story.

Bob Mittel – Portland, ME —

Gramps was a Water Witch To the Editor: David Van Wie’s excellent piece on aquifers (see “In Praise of Groundwater,” March 2019 Sporting Environment) got me thinking about how much things have changed.

In Grandfather’s day, people drank from springs and streams and dug wells. His father, my Great Grandfather, had one of the first windmills in town. It stood in front of their big yellow house, pumping water into a cistern.

No one worried about pollution or contamination. Every farm or home got its water from a well, a nearby stream or a natural spring. But we never seemed to get sick from all the bad things you read about today.

Maybe the water was just cleaner and safer in those days?

At the farm, we kids had no problems cupping our hands and getting a quick drink from the pasture brook. We were told to avoid stagnant water, but running water was supposed to be safe. Really.

You think about the Native Americans who lived here on the land for thousands of years, and the settlers and farmers and woodsmen and loggers who made their livings in the state, and wonder why they didn’t all die from cholera or “beaver fever.”

When I was young and hanging around

with Grandfather, I discovered he knew were almost every natural spring was in York County.

Many of these were right beside the country roads, and in years gone by had filled watering troughs for horses. Others were off the beaten path and took some effort to find.

But Gramps knew where they were. We’d be driving along a gravel road in Hollis or Limerick and Grandfather would pull over in the middle of nowhere. He’d stop the car, get out and say, “Come on – there’s a really nice spring here.” Then he’d plunge through the alder bushes and walk a little ways into the woods leading me to a bubbling spring with a sandy bottom. And he’d tell me about it: “We used to stop here for a drink on the way to see Uncle Mont and Aunt Eunice.”

Gramps carried a tin cup in the trunk of his car so he could get his drink. He’d dip the cup a few times into the water, then scoop up a cupful and drink it with obvious pleasure.

“Best water in York County,” he’d say, and pass me the cup. I remember the water was crystal clear and so cold it hurt your teeth.

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Letters to the Editor (Continued from page 5)

“That big old pine tree is the marker,” he went on just in case I ever wanted to find the place again by myself.

Other springs had been rocked up and had wooden spouts where a steady stream of delicious water flowed day after day. He knew where they all were. Across the Hollis plains, in Dayton, or Buxton or Waterboro, Gramps had a map in his head of where every reliable source of water was. Over the course of two or three summers fishing and canoeing together, we drank from most of them.

Grandfather was also a dowser, or “water witch.” By using a forked stick, he said he could find underground springs and streams.

He was friends with Henry Gross, the famous game warden and water dowser.

Even so, I was never very sure about Gramps and his dowsing rod; but his affinity for running water may account for why he kept track of all those old springs.

All these years later I still remember where a few of them are located, and I’m sure the water still runs clear and cold.

Randy Randall Saco —

Big Bucks – It Pays to be Selective To the Editor: I am writing in response to Joe Saltalamachia’s January Big Game column, titled “Joe’s Evolving Approach to Deer Hunting.”

I, too, evolved over the years. Eleven years ago, I decided to shoot only mature 8-pointers or better. I was not quite happy shooting the 1st buck that came along, and not happy that my season was over.

Since then I have been rewarded with bigger, more satisfying bucks, including five 10-pointers.

A fringe benefit has been more days out hunting – I love it! Knowing there is a big buck out there for us keeps it exciting.

I am a fan of Joe’s Big Game hunting articles. Tell him to keep up the good work.

John Finley – Staatsburg, NY —

Park Rangers Should Have Law Enforcement Training To the Editor: In 2018, Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands reported that that 3 million people visited Maine State Parks and Historic Sites.

During peak times, Maine parks often have many of the same issues and activities of small cities.

By statute, the Bureau has the authority to designate their employees with law enforcement powers, so rangers can properly deal with violations of state laws and regulations.

Yet over the years, the Bureau of Parks www.MaineSportsman.com

and Lands has refused to properly train their staff in efficient law enforcement practices or authorize Park Managers or Rangers to issues summonses or make arrests.

In early March, a legislative committee held a public hearing on L.D. 527, a bill to require the Bureau of Parks and Lands to establish a law enforcement training program for park managers and rangers.

Opponents said Maine parks have very few enforcement issues, most of which can be handled politely. However, in this day of opioid use, the presence of sexual predators, establishment of meth labs and random shootings, those assumptions don’t hold water.

In fact, Maine Park Rangers are first responders, in every sense of the word. In 2018, for example, Rangers responded to domestic disputes, which, as you know, can turn violent very quickly. In addition, needles were found on park beaches, lifeguard stands and bathhouses. Rangers and managers dealt with public intoxication, and even a case of alleged stalking by a convicted sex offender.

Yet at a time when the Maine Legislature has authorized Rangers of the Maine Forest Service to carry side arms for their and public safety, the Bureau of Parks has not only removed law enforcement authority, but refuses to provide safety equipment or proper training.

Are Maine Parks safe? Evidence indicates they, like many areas, have their hidden dangers.

When it comes to providing public safety and resource protection in our magnificent State Parks and Historic Sites, our own Bureau of Parks and Lands is leaving visitors and dedicated rangers out in the cold.

Tim Caverly Former Region Manager; Allagash Wilderness Waterway Millinocket, ME —

Hooked on a Technicality To the Editor: I’ve been subscribing to your magazine for years, and I really enjoy reading the local articles.

However, some of your columnists may want to study the state’s fishing regulations more closely.

In the February edition, one of your columnists wrote about using Emerald Shiners for bait. Those aren’t on the state’s approved baitfish list. I know they are also called Eastern Silvery Minnows, but let’s get it right.

And in the January edition, another columnist writes of using “perch eyes” as bait.

Perch are not on the approved baitfish list.

This may be a stretch, but the use of fish parts like eyes is technically illegal. I asked a warden while fishing last winter, and he assured me that ANY part of the fish used, dead or alive, had to be on the approved baitfish list.

Also, in your January edition, one of your columnists complains about “too many tur-

keys.” I didn’t think I’d ever see a sporting magazine writer complaining about too many of any species of game. I’m sure a lot of people who actually hunt turkeys would not think there are too many.

Imagine going deer hunting and saying, “I saw too many deer today; the state has to do something!”

Turkeys are a great opportunity for young or inexperienced hunters to get started.

We hear all the time about not being able to recruit new hunters; if we didn’t have turkeys, it would be all but impossible. It’s nice to be able to take someone new turkey hunting, and actually be able to get them close to what they’re hunting for – not so easy with deer.

I think it’s awesome that your average hunter has great chance of success on a nice Tom or any legal bird, and if you want to hold out and do your homework, you have a real chance of connecting on a trophy bird.

I know there are local areas where the big birds can be a nuisance, but I blame that on too much posted property, where your average hunter can’t get to them.

Instead of the state worrying about too many turkeys, maybe it should come up with some sort of incentive program for not posting your land. I will agree with your writer that it would be nice for it to be easier, or even free, to tag them.

Chris Gagnon – North Waterboro, ME —

Really Got a Hold on Me To the Editor: Regarding Dave Miller’s recent columns on antique trapping books, I thought you might appreciate the attached photo. Dave’s not the only one to have a copy of the A. R. Harding book on fox trapping.

I found this many years ago in my grandmother’s house, and saved it.

My only experience trapping was as a young teenager, when I trapped some muskrats from the swamp across from my home in Massachusetts.

I still have a small collection of the old leg-hold traps.

They now decorate the wall in my finished basement.

I am an active hunter and fisherman at age 70. Also a longtime subscriber to the The Maine Sportsman and I enjoy Dave’s trapping columns.

Pete Popieniuck Lunenburg, MA & Andover, ME

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If the Case Settled, the Judge Went Fishing The late Justice Randolph Weatherbee was a fly fisherman. He hailed from the Bangor area. He was well-known among lawyers and respected for his fairness and low–key approach to his judicial duties.

He related to me that when he first started out in law practice, a boy came to him with an unusual complaint. The boy had a neighbor who was a disagreeable grouch.

The boy and his friends used to play baseball near the man’s home, and one day their baseball ended up in the man’s yard. The man picked up the ball and went into his house with it.

The boy knocked on the door and asked the neighbor for the baseball.

The neighbor pointed to the smoke coming out of the chimney. The grouch had burned the baseball.

Lawyer Weatherbee brought a civil lawsuit on behalf of the boy against the unpleasant neighbor, and eventually recovered a judgment against him which was enough to pay for a new baseball for his client.

Most lawyers would not have gone through all that trouble for a baseball, but that was the kind of person Randolph Weatherbee was.

Didn’t Mind the Aroostook Circuit Justice Weatherbee, like other judges of the Superior Court, presided in several different courts in rotation. Sometimes, he was assigned to serve a term of court in Aroostook County.

He told me some of the other judges did not look forward to time

As the judge handed me one if his top-secret Aroostook County trout flies, with its red wool body and teal wing, he smiled and warned me conspiratorially, “This fly is so effective that its use is unsportsmanlike. If you are caught with it, do not mention my name.” spent away from family and in a remote part of the state. He said that on the contrary, he looked forward to a term there, because he was a keen fly fisherman.

Occasionally, when time is set aside for a jury trial, at the last moment the parties decide to settle their civil case, or in a criminal case the defendant decides to plead guilty or accept a deal offered by the prosecutor.

The jury is discharged, and there may be no pending business to occupy the judge.

when the jury is deliberating on a criminal or civil case, the presiding judge and attorneys need to stay close to the court room because the jury may reach a verdict or may ask the judge a question or request additional

instructions.

In Kennebec County, during this quiet time, the judge and the attorneys would sometimes wait in the judges’ chambers and engage in small talk.

On one of these occa-

sions, Justice Weatherbee related his interest in fly fishing and the good luck he had with his favorite fly in Aroostook County’s backwoods ponds.

I described the small streamer I’d bought in the Rangeley fly shop, and the success I’d had with it in waters in the Rangeley region

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Seizing the Opportunity When that happened in Aroostook County, rather than repair to his hotel, Judge Weatherbee would seize the opportunity to go fly fishing.

He had a small canoe he could load on top of his car, and he would go trout fishing on a nearby pond.

He had a favorite fly that was consistently productive on backwoods ponds in the County. The fly had a red wool body and a teal wing.

Years before, I’d bought a small streamer fly in the Rangeley fly shop. It came highly recommended and produced regularly for me, and so it became the fly I’d start out with. It was my go-to fly.

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two of his red-bodied, teal winged specials, along with a note lightheart-

edly letting me know the fly was so deadly that its use was not sporting, and

if I was caught with it, not to mention his name.

Hard-water Adventure Judge Weatherbee was also an ice fisherman. He related an unusual incident.

Weatherbee and his fishing partner had chopped holes and set up traps on a lake I assume was located north of Bangor, but the action had been slow – so slow that his partner proposed to pull some of their traps and set them up some distance away, around and behind a point of land.

After the partner left, there continued to be no action, and Weatherbee became interested in watching what was going on beneath the ice.

In order to watch comfortably, he unpacked a pad and stretched out on it. He’d been watching for an extended time when he heard a soft scratch sound on the ice, and turned to see that a coyote was approaching slowly,

apparently stalking him, since he looked to be sick or injured.

Weatherbee got to his feet and tried to scare off the predator. He had nothing by way of a tool or weapon, since his partner had the ice chisel.

He shouted and waved his arms, trying to convince the critter he was not easy pickings, but the coyote was undeterred.

Then he noticed a second coyote standing along the shoreline.

He hurled chunks of ice and snowballs at the critter.

Eventually his partner, alerted by the ruckus, came into sight, and the coyote left for the shoreline.

It was, in short, an exciting conclusion to a no-action day of ice fishing.

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Michelle, Micropterus and a Miracle Illustrations by Joe Mahler – www.joemahler.com

In my seventeenth spring, after four years away from fishing while our family was stationed in Germany, where my father was an Air Force pilot and Elvis was an Army tank driver, several experiences etched themselves indelibly in my mind.

Although the memories were in a sense about love, some were endings and others beginnings. And the beginning was the miracle weekend that reinforced my lifelong love affair with fishing.

Fishing Gear My gold-colored Wright-McGill fiberglass spinning rod and trusty Mitchell 300 spinning reel – an original made in France in the 1950s –and my carry-on bag sat on the empty seat beside me. There also were a few outdoor magazines to read on the long trip, and several letters and a photo from Michelle, a girl I’d never met, but soon would.

Going Fishing with Jerry The Greyhound bus inched its way north from the place where my father was now posted in the USA, toward where Jerry’s father was assigned at another air base. Jerry and I had been together in Germany from seventh through tenth grades, where we learned to speak some German, chase girls, play pool, and drink the rich, dark beer without getting sick.

During those years and upon our return to the States, we talked about fishing, and that’s what we were going to do on this spring break from high school.

We would spend four days camping on a low mountain lake. The lake held mostly largemouth bass, and its feeder creeks were home to rainbow trout. Since I’d already decided to study fisheries biology after high school, I was proud to know the Latin scientific name for the largemouth black bass, Micropterus salmoides, and that notwithstanding the name, they aren’t at all related to the salmons, but belong to the same family as bluegills and other sunfishes.

Under the seat was a small, red metal tackle box—you remember the kind that started rusting before you got it out the front door of the hardware store. It contained a few Hula Poppers, Jitterbugs, Hawaiian Wigglers, Dardevles, Mepp’s spinners, and a modest assortment of necessities like split shot, a metal stringer, and some band-aids.

The bus would eventually arrive at a town near the airfield where Jerry would meet me; we’d have dinner with his family, and then go to the base Teen Club so I could meet Michelle. Jerry and I would head up to the lake early the next morning in his father’s station wagon, towing a 14-foot runabout with an outboard motor. His father and younger brother, the Brat, would join us for the last two days of the trip.

Michelle, My Belle Although we had never met, Michelle and I had been writing letters for months. Jerry had told her that his handsome, athletic, intelligent, rugged outdoors-type yet sensitive friend was going to visit during the Easter vacations (at least that’s what I’d told him to tell her). From her snapshot, she looked pretty good, and I hoped she was at least equally impressed with my photo.

Since this is really about fishing, I won’t regale you with the details of the first (and only) rendezvous with Michelle. She was a fox, and we “made out” all evening behind the Teen Club until my whole body ached.

We would continue writing letters for awhile, but we never were able to get together again. And it seems like no big loss, since I learned that she didn’t fish.

New Lure – Rubber Worms The station wagon groaned a bit as we crested the last high grade before dropping down into the emerald valley that held the lake. Jerry was driving carefully, since neither of us had towed a boat before.

Near the top of the hill, we stopped at a gas station that sold beer and fishing tackle – two of life’s necessities and, since we couldn’t legally buy beer, we decided to check out the tackle. Besides, Jerry had pilfered a few beers from his father’s stock for our adventure.

As Jerry paid for the gas (it was about 15 cents a gallon), I asked the proprietor what lures were working on the lake. He ignored the rows of plugs that lined one wall, and pointed to a small cardboard box near the cash register that held the latest new rage in the bass fishing world— Creme rubber worms.

The black worm, roughly segmented like a real earthworm, was about six inches long.

It had two exposed hooks connected by heavy monofilament line running through the body and wire, safety pin-type weedguards that slipped over the hooks, and completed the rig. I had read about them in outdoor magazines, and we each bought a half-dozen of these expensive baits—I think they were about 39 cents apiece. I was a little skeptical about them, but outdoor writer Jason Lucas and others said they worked.

A True Miracle, Marvel, Wonder and Sensation We set up camp at a campground/marina/ tackle/grocery store complex that was as efficient as it was rustic. And it wasn’t crowded, so the boat was quickly launched and tied to the dock ready for tomorrow. We fooled around in the remaining daylight by fishing from shore with spinners and such, but with no success. After a few beers by the fire, we hit the tent early and, as much as I liked the guy in the sleeping bag next to me, I wished it was Michelle instead.

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to go and only a vague inkling of what to do once we got there, we motored the runabout to the southernmost bay of the lake, which was a few miles from the campground. We stopped for no apparent reason, dropped the bow anchor, and started to fish. I believe I was throwing a Mepp’s spinner. We didn’t have a bite and the area didn’t seem to feel fishy, whatever that was, so we cranked up the outboard and Jerry headed us to another spot. As the boat accelerated, the still-deployed anchor line came taut behind us as the anchor cleared the water, and the rope flipped Jerry’s only fishing rod into the lake!

We stopped, retrieved the anchor, and stared in horror at the great expanse of water. A faint bubble line caused by the propeller showed where we had been, and we backtracked along this fading spoor until it was gone. The boat rested still on the lake, our hopes of a great angling adventure ruined by carelessness.

Almost in desperation, and just to be doing something useful under the hopeless circumstances, I tied on a Dardevle heavy spoon with a large treble hook and cast, hoping to dredge the errant rod from the depths. As I slowly dragged the spoon across the bottom, I was thankful that I, at least, had a rod. Perhaps we could share it or borrow one from the marina bait shop until Jerry’s dad arrived late the next day.

But miracle of miracles – you guessed it!

When I reeled that first cast toward the boat, the treble hook caught one of the guides, and I hauled the rod aboard—a true wonder, marvel and sensation if ever I saw one!

We stood there, momentarily awed by the event, then checked the anchor and headed up-lake to find more productive water. We weren’t sure what that was, but figured we’d know it when we saw it.

Discovery of Shallow Water We motored along pretty good, my hair blowing from the movement of the boat.

There weren’t many other boats on the lake and no one was fishing from the shore. It was a clear, warm spring day and it felt good to be outdoors, visiting and fishing with a friend.

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“Damn,” I muttered as I hung up on something. I impatiently jerked the rod up to free the bait, which is the wrong thing to do when you’re snagged, but the right move when an 8-pound bass has just inhaled your worm. All Illustrations by Joe Mahler

And then I saw it. To the right front of the boat, about fifty yards from shore, was something sticking out of the water. We idled toward it and abruptly ran aground on what turned out to be the top of an underwater hill.

The protrusion I’d spotted was a large, decaying tree stump. On the main lake side of it, the water was deep, dropping almost straight down as near as I could tell. The side toward shore sloped gently into a saddle, and then became a shallow, stump-filled flat that led to a rocky beach.

We stepped out of the boat into an inch or two of water, pulled it farther aground, and set the anchor in the hollow stump just in case the boat wanted to drift away. We weren’t taking any chances by then.

Faced with the dilemma of where to cast— to the deep water beyond the drop-off, to the not so deep water of the saddle, or into the stump field, Jason Lucas – or was it Byron Dalrymple – came to the rescue. On the bus, I read that pre-spawn bass stage on drops near shallower spawning grounds until the water temperature is warm enough for them to move in and begin the mating ritual.

On a hunch, I tied on the black rubber worm and crimped a split shot on the line a foot or so above it. I don’t remember what Jerry was doing as my first cast arched toward the middle of the lake and the worm settled slowly to the bottom. Nowadays they call this method of fishing “California finesse split-shotting,” but back then we called it “using split shot for weight to get the bait down.”

You could get away with a little Latin, like

Micropterus, but real bass fishermen weren’t much into French in those days.

Fat Bass Not knowing how to properly fish the rubber worm, I just very slowly reeled it along the bottom toward the steep drop at my feet.

I could feel the bottom contour and tried to imagine, through touch, what the worm was doing as it slithered along and began its slow climb up the face of the sunken hillock

“Damn!” I muttered as I hung up on something. I impatiently jerked the rod up to free the bait, which is the wrong thing to do when you’re snagged, but the correct approach when an 8-pound bass has just inhaled your worm.

The drag and I squealed at about the same time and rate, and my heart jumped.

After what seemed like at least forever, I finally brought the magnificent fish to the inch-deep water that lapped against my sneakers. I stared at the fat bass – the largest I’d ever seen, much less caught. Her distended egg-filled belly looked like she’d swallowed a football.

My body shook from an incredible rush of adrenaline, much like the hormonal flow I’d had behind the Teen Club two evenings before. But now I couldn’t even remember Michelle, and at least one of my two dreams had come true.

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us off the water, we caught more bass in the four- to seven-pound range than Jason Lucas probably ever saw in his lifetime: almost every cast, or so it seemed. Thank goodness those old Creme worms were more like tire rubber than today’s soft plastics. They were pretty chewed up, but continued to catch fish, and they made me a dedicated worm fisherman for life.

We would repeat this performance with Jerry’s father and the Brat over the next two days, although the fish were only averaging about four pounds by then.

This experience was a seminal one for me. I recognized then, although I’d been fishing avidly since I was six years old, that I was hooked on angling in general, and largemouth bass fishing in particular. Like a persistent itch between your shoulder blades, one that you just barely can reach, but can’t apply enough pressure for a good scratch, this fishing-tingling sensation would be with me always, and I try my best to satisfy it.

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Over the coming decades, a fly rod would mostly replace the spinning gear, but my tackle box or vest always has room for a plastic worm.

The Greyhound headed south, first past unknown then familiar sights. School tomorrow. Reality. Just as with Michelle, I’d never see Jerry again, and also never fish the mountain lake. But I knew all three would remain forever imprinted on my mind, and in my heart.

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Despite his resemblance to James Dean as he neared graduation from high school, the author had better luck with lunker largemouth bass than with his dream girl. (Photo courtesy Santa Maria High School, California)

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“Snapshots in Time”

Excerpts from the Annals of Maine’s Sporting Past Submitted by Bill Pierce, of the Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum in Oquossoc, Maine April is one of the most active months for wildfires in Maine. Most folks have heard of The Year a State Burned. In ’47, Maine fires wiped out nine towns from October 13 to October 27.

Firefighters tried to fight over 200 Maine fires that ultimately consumed a quarter-million acres of forest and wiped out nine entire towns. These fires destroyed 851 homes and 397 seasonal cottages – very bad indeed.

What follows is an interesting story about another large, yet lesser-known Maine wildfire. This article was republished in the “Maine Woods” in 1905, a full 79 years after the actual events took place. It relates

the results of an “original idea” concocted by State officials to put a cramp on the efforts of lumber thieves who were capitalizing on the remoteness of a still-wild portion of Maine.

The Seboeis region was very hard to get to, and therefore a very difficult portion of the State-owned forest to monitor and protect.

I particularly enjoyed the verbal report offered by a burned and beaten up Jim Chase, the man sent to execute the plan, as delivered to his superior after he finally managed to escape from the mountain top that saved his life.

The next time you travel by Chase Mountain, perhaps you’ll ponder his unplanned

two-week stay upon its rocky cliffs and all the time he had to think about his plight and the disaster that he had initiated. His running for miles with scores of wildlife and reference to his feared condition of Moosehead Lake are especially priceless.

This story quite literally exemplifies the wise old saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Enjoy this edition of Snap Shots in Time.

Please be careful as you go outside to enjoy the true treasure that is our Maine woods, and be sure make some safe and less catastrophic outdoor history of your own!

The Great State Bonfire of 1826 From “Maine Woods,” Friday, February 10, 1905

A writer In the Boston Transcript, telling about the Maine woods, relates the story of one of the worst forest fires that Maine ever saw and which was set, years ago, by the hand of authority, paradoxically in an attempt to save the timber. It is known in folklore as the “Great State Bonfire of 1826.”

At that time, all the forests were owned by the state, and the valuable pumpkin pine region up around Seboeis was the favorite resort of timber thieves who went in each spring, cut and stacked vast quantities of hay from the meadows, and used it to feed their oxen during the winter while they helped themselves to the splendid timber.

The state authorities sought to stop this thievery, and sent Jim Chase, a timber looker and a man supposed to be wise in woodcraft, one dry August, to burn this hay and thus block the timber pirates.

Jim reached the meadows in safety, touched a match to the stacks, and sat down to smoke and muse on how easily he had outwitted the thieves and saved the timber.

The stacks burned splendidly, and so did the neighboring forests, which were lighted for miles by flying embers. The wind

This image from the early 20th century illustrates old growth pine being consumed in a forest fire just like the “Maine State Bonfire” of 1826. Source: Rangeley Lakes Historic Society

increased and veered, and it was but a brief half hour before this authorized incendiary was fleeing wildly with the frantic denizens of the wood in a desperate attempt to save their lives. The flames leaped hither and dither.

Now with blistered face and shriveled boots, Chase plunged through score-long embers and choking until again gaining a stretch of forest yet untouched, but always fleeing toward his one point of safety, a bare slate peak half a dozen miles to the south.

Strange was the companionship of that wild journey, as bear, deer, moose, and everything that could run or fly or crawl fled with him, driven by the tremendous blaze

that Jim Chase had kindled in the name of the State of Maine.

At last bleeding, blistered, blazing, he sank exhausted on the great rock pinnacle which goes to this day by the name of Mount Chase.

For two weeks Jim dwelt on this bare bill, living as best he might while the woods burned in an ever-widening circle of fire all about him.

On the 15th night, a heavy rain fell, and he was able to traverse the burned and blackened hills and valleys back to Bangor.

“Did you burn the hay?” asked the State agent.

“Ha!” said Jim, “Gosh a mighty! I burned the hay and the woods and the ground and every living critter in ’em and if Moosehead Lake ain’t afire now, then it ain’t my fault!”

It was found afterwards that Jim’s official fire had burned over five townships entire and parts of six others, a total of nearly 200 square miles covered with the finest timber that ever grew. If the timber pirates of Seboeis had been allowed to cut steadily from that day to this, they could not have done half the damage that had come from this vigorous but ill-advised attempt to drive them out.

That was Maine’s last State Bonfire.

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Camp North Woods Lottery Deadline Quickly Approaching (April 5) Camp North Woods is an overnight camp for boys and girls ages 9-13 to learn lifelong outdoor skills as well as the importance of sustaining Maine’s natural resources.

The camp is hosted by the University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Center at Bryant Pond. Campers receive instruction from, and are mentored by, staff from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and staff from Bryant Pond.

Activities include hands-on experiences in rifle, shotgun, archery, map and compass, outdoor survival, canoe and kayak, boating safety, ATV safety, deer and turkey hunting, trapping, open water fishing, fly tying and fly casting.

Because there are a limited number of spaces at Camp North Woods, campers are selected through a chance lottery. The registration fee for the winners selected in the lottery process is $635 and includes all meals, lodging and instruction for the week. Maine resident campers selected in the lottery are eligible to receive a scholarship in the amount of $300 from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, reducing the registration fee to $335 for the week.

The application deadline is Friday, April 5, 2019 at 11:59pm.

For more information, visit DIF&W’s website, www.Maine.gov/ifw, and click on “Programs and Resources,” then “Educational Programs.”

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Maine’s Newest Wardens: Game Warden Taylor Valente

ing summers patrolling the Sebago Lake area. He graduated from the 31st Basic Law Enforcement Training Program at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in December of 2016, and was assigned to the Rockwood District.

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Fish Records Falling Like (Tied) Flies!

Game Warden Taylor Valente grew up in New Gloucester, Maine. Valente was introduced to the outdoors at a young age by his family. His passion and interest in what the outdoors had to offer grew quickly, as he spent time hunting, fishing, and exploring the Maine woods with his father and grandfather.

Valente attended Gray-New Gloucester High School, and went on to study Wildlife Ecology at the University of Maine Orono, earning his degree in 2014.

During his time spent at University of Maine Orono, Game Warden Valente’s education confirmed to him how valuable and rich our state is in resources.

His strength is in teamwork, skills develop playing team athletics in grade school and in college.

Valente had the opportunity to work for two years as a Deputy Game Warden, spend-

Fishing in Maine is experiencing a resurgence, and size records are being posted and surpassed as fast as we can keep up with them.

Let’s start with the Pumpkinseed Sunfish. The existing state record was as follows: Pumpkinseed Sunfish: 12.8 oz., Phil Moon, Turner, ME, 1/19/19, Location Undisclosed So first we heard from Steve Corson, Jr. who hauled in a “lunker” pumpkinseed that weighed 87/100ths of a pound. According to our resident math majors, that’s 13.92 ounces, good enough for a new record, since his fish was witnesses and weighed on certified scales at Dag’s Bait Shop.

Congratulations, Steve – you are a Maine State record-holder, a status that places your name in the roster of fisherman who make up our state’s angling lore.

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BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE! No sooner had we declared Steve a winner, than we had ANOTHER winner – one who held onto her claim like someone holding onto their winning lottery ticket, but who then comes forward to claim her prize.

Olivia Hanna provided proof, in the form of photos and a “One That Didn’t Get Away”

application witnessed and signed by state biologist Jason Seides, of her MONSTA 10 ½-inch, 1.16-pound pumpkinseed, caught in 2016.

So Steve – we hope you enjoyed wearing that gold crown for a few minutes, and – yes – we see you are smiling in admiration, and handing the gilded headpiece to young Ms. Hanna. A true Maine Sportsman!

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Another Record?

And as if the pumpkinseed leaderboard shuffle wasn’t enough, on February 18, 2019, Daniel Closson of Bass Harbor caught the biggest yellow perch we’ve ever seen – 1.95 pounds!

It surpassed the previous state record of 1.88 lbs., set by Daniel W. Baty of Round Pond in 2017, pulled out of Damariscotta Lake.

The weight was certified by biologist Greg Burr. The fish was 15 7/8th inches in length.

Congratulations, Daniel!

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Photo of the Month: Fighting Over Food

Richard Gurney, a Master Maine Guide in Rockwood, sent us this outstanding and unusual photograph, which shows a large coyote and an adult bald eagle fighting over a deer carcass on the ice.

The photo was taken with Gurney’s trail camera. The camera is triggered by motion, and the shutter clicked at just the right time for this incredible stop-action image.

Gurney reports that the coyote was the eventual victor in this dispute.

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Are You Interested in a Career as a Maine Game Warden?

If so, the Warden Service is hosting several statewide informational meetings in April to discuss career possibilities and to answer any questions.

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skills required, detailing the hiring process and explaining the educational, law enforcement and search-and-rescue missions of the Maine Warden Service.

Those interested in attending are encouraged to contact Corporal John MacDonald by email at john.macdonald@maine.gov.

Meeting dates and locations are as follows: • Monday, April 1 from 6-8pm: Sidney 270 Lyons Road - MDIFW Regional HQTuesday, April 2 from 6-8pm: Gray - 15 Game Farm Road - MDIFW Regional HQ

those of us who are boaters, reviewing this list is a helpful way of identifying these areas where planning and preventative maintenance can help us having to call for a tow.

The five categories, and the percentages of each occurrence, are as follows: • Mechanical breakdown (54%) • Running aground (12%) • Dead battery (9%) • Out of fuel (9%), and • Engine overheating (4%)

• Wednesday, April 3 from 6-8pm: Bangor - 650 State Street - MDIFW Regional HQ • Thursday, April 4 from 6-8pm: Presque Isle Police Dept. 43 North Street #2 • Saturday, April 6 from 10am-12pm: Kittery Trading Post – 301 US Route 1, Kittery • Sunday, April 7 from 10am-12pm: Scarborough – Cabela’s – 100 Cabela’s Blvd.

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Top Five Reasons Boats Get Towed

BoatUS, which tows stranded mariners back to their docks, receives about 70,000 calls for assistance each year.

The group periodically analyses the reasons boaters call for help.

The found that the vast majority of calls result from five categories of problems. For

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NH Loon Preservation Committee Ran Successful “Sinker Buy-Back” Program in 2018 According to New Hampshire’s “Loon Preservation Committee” (LPC), the lead tackle buyback pilot program, which LPC and NH Fish and Game conducted during the summer of 2018, was very successful.

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The effort resulted in collection of 4,786 individual pieces of lead fishing tackle that weighed a combined total of nearly 29 pounds.

According to the group, every single one of those more than 4,700 lead items had the potential to kill a loon if it had remained in circulation.

Under the program, anglers were able to exchange one ounce or more of illegal lead fishing tackle (lead sinkers and jigs weighing one ounce or less) for a $10 voucher at two participating tackle stores.

The pilot program will continue in the summer of 2019. Ten additional retailers have announced they will be participating in the program.

The effort was initiated because even though lead tackle has been illegal to use in New Hampshire since 2016, some anglers continued to use gear in their tackle boxes, so the incidents of loon mortality from lead tackle did not decrease in 2017 and 2018.

The NH Loon Preservation Committee can be reached at volunteers@loon.org.

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Maine Legislature Considers Bill to Require Biodegradable Hooks and Rubber Lures

Fifteen witnesses testified at a February 27th public hearing on LD 695, titled “An Act to Require Biodegradable Hooks and Lures for Freshwater Fishing.”

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The bill would require use of biodegradable rubber lures and hooks in Maine starting in 2024.

Most anglers were strongly opposed to the proposal, arguing that the science of making such lures and hooks is not yet a reality, so in effect Mainers would be required to empty their tackle boxes but no substitute lures would be available to replace the newly-outlawed tackle.

However, proponents urged consideration of the bill based on the numbers of rubber lures found on the bottoms of Maine’s lakes and ponds, and the fact that rubber worms are frequently found in the bellies of Maine fish.

The Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee is expected to “carry over” the bill, meaning it would come back to lawmakers for consideration in 2020.

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Birding: Set Your Watch to April Migrants

by Nick Lund, Maine Audubon

It’s April, which means that bird migration is finally here. May hogs a lot of the attention – it’s the month when millions of colorful warblers, tanagers and grosbeaks finally arrive from the tropics – but April is when things really pick up, and when almost any new bird is a welcome sight after the long winter.

Though it may seem chaotic, birds have migration to a science. Hundreds of species each migrate on their own separate but consistent schedules, honed over millennia by some combination of temperature, light, and food availability. Though winds or precipitation may delay things for a few days, the timing of a migration for any particular species is reliable enough to know what to look out for any given week of spring.

Old time birders used to prepare for migration with “Arrival and Departure” lists built up over years of observation. Nowadays, scientists can use websites like eBird and BirdCast to know what species are on their way. Here are just a few of the species you should be keeping an eye (and ear) out for each week of the month.

First week: Song Sparrows and Eastern Phoebes. Birds are quiet in the winter, for the most part, which makes the arrival of these two relentless songsters such a pleas-

ant surprise. Song Sparrows have a loud call, beginning with a handful of clear notes and ending in a jumbled trill, and sing hundreds of times per hour for much of the day. Phoebes sing their name with a loud rasp: “FEEBEE! FEE-BEE!” and can be heard from a long distance.

Second week: Look up to see raptors pouring back into the state. At the long-running hawkwatch atop Bradbury Mountain in Pownal, the second week of April typically sees peak numbers of Osprey, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and American Kestrels moving overhead. April 10 was the biggest day of that month in 2017, with a total of 439 birds of different species migrating over the hawkwatch.

Third week: Look for Belted Kingfishers to have a big movement this week. As the ice continues to melt off Maine’s lakes and rivers, these raucous blue birds move right in to start fishing. Listen for their loud rattling call along any larger ice-free water body.

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The written entries should be no longer than 500 words, and must relate to one of the following outdoor topics: fishing; hunting (including sporting dogs); sporting firearms; snowmobiling; ATVing; trapping; boating or canoeing; taxidermy; conservation; or archery.

Submissions must consist of non-fiction narratives or essays – there is no poetry division in this contest, and no fiction division.

Submissions must be original works, and must have been written within the past year.

Submissions from students in grades 6–8 will be entered in the Junior Division; grades 9–12 will be entered in the Senior Division.

Winners will receive the following cash awards: • Junior Maine winner: $100 • Senior Maine winner: $100 • Junior New England winner: $100 • Senior New England winner: $100 Additional prizes or recognitions may be awarded.

Winning submissions, and selected additional submissions, will be published in The Maine Sportsman magazine.

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Include your contact information, age, your age and your grade in school, the name of your parent or guardian, and the name of your English or writing teacher. Submissions can also be made through your schools.

You will receive an acknowledgment that your submission has been received.

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this time. If you’re at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center in Falmouth, look this week to see if the rare Little Egret has returned for a fifth straight year.

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Bird of the Month: Northern Gannet

by Erika Zambello

Shading my eyes, I looked across the ship’s bow and toward the horizon. On a whale watch that launched from Portland, my family and I hoped to see whales and seals, keeping our peepers peeled for their telltale silhouettes breaking the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

I, however, had an addition hope: to spot my first Northern Gannet.

Large seabirds, Northern Gannets spend most of their lives over the open ocean. During the winter months, boaters can see these impressive seabirds off the Maine coastline and all the way to Florida and Mexico, though they occasionally follow schools of fish closer to shore.

Adults are bright white with black wingtips that can stretch over five and a half feet.

Gannets feed on fish and squid species.

Because of their color, from a distance one can mistake them for a simple gull. However, that confusion is erased when you see feeding the gannets soar high into the air, then dive straight down into the water after their prey.

These plunge dives can start from 130 feet, setting them apart from gulls and terns.

Overall, the populations of Northern Gannet remain consistent. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, there are over 150,000 gannets in North America. And I just wanted to see just one!

A low layer of fog obscured our view, leaving little to see other than the boat railings and the rolling sea. Suddenly, a shape ducked beneath the cloud, flying for just a moment by our stern. I practically leapt towards the bird with my binoculars, holding my breath as it disappeared back into the mist.

The captain called attention to the bird, confirming my initial impression: a Northern Gannet. Lucky for me, the same individual – just morphing from brown juvenile feathers to its white adult plumage – followed us for five minutes, giving me beautiful views of its sleek body, its blue eyes and its powerful bill.

To this day, Northern Gannets remain my favorite seabirds!

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Book Review: Lou Zambello’s Latest “Trophy Trout” Book is a Winner!

In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout – the Ultimate Handbook of Tactics, Timing and Territory, by Lou Zambello Wilderness Adventures Press, 230 pp.; Signed copies available for $26 from www.

MainelyFlyFishing.com; also available on Amazon and in local fly shops such as Rangeley Region Sport Shop.

In Pursuit of Trophy Brook Trout is Lou Zambello’s third book in a fly fishing trilogy, and follows his successful Fly Fishing Northern New England’s Seasons and the successor, Flyfisher’s Guide to New England.

Before delving into the substantive text, a reader should first leaf through the book’s 210 pages to marvel at the outstanding, colorful photos, maps, charts and drawings. Trophy fish, live insects, tied flies, more trophy fish, maps of the Magalloway and Lower Magalloway, diagrams of streams and rivers showing where the biggest fish lie in wait – did I mention trophy fish? The illustrations alone make the book a “must-have” for experienced or novice fly fishermen, or for folks who simply need an attractive publication for their coffee table or streamside cabin.

Divided into three sections – 1) finding the fish; 2) triggering a strike; and 3) hooking and landing a trophy fish the book guides the reader through the basics: where to find the biggest fish, how weather affects fishing activity, and a review of the stiffer gear needed to land the largest fish – and then dives deep into the particulars, taking us into the back eddies, deep runs, pools and stillwaters where the trophies are found.

Lou is a Maine Guide, a prolific blogger (www.MainelyFlyFishing.com) and a regular contributor of “Freshwater Fly Fishing” columns found in the pages of The Maine Sportsman. This brand-new book is an instant classic, and will serve to help build and maintain enthusiasm for the sport of fly fishing.

Reviewed by Will Lund

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Wescogus Night Hunter The fall of 1972 was my first autumn as a Maine Game Warden.

We were stationed in the little Washington County hamlet of Jonesboro, on the banks of the Chandler River. Nothing fancy – just good, hard-working folks whose word was gold.

We came to love Jonesboro and her people. I was stationed there for five-and one-half years and never once had to issue a citation to anyone from town. That is not to say that if I had been in the right place at the right time things couldn’t have been different, but for the most part, they were good people, and they were great to my family and me. It’s now nearly fifty years later, and I still get a little homesick when I think about Jonesboro.

Salary: $96/Week The senior warden I was working with was Carlton Hill from Cherryfield. I learned a lot from Carlton during the five years that we worked together, and I appreciated his taking the time to show me the ropes.

That first fall, I often worked over 100 hours a week and was bringing home $96.20 for the effort, but it really didn’t matter. I was having the time of my life doing a job that I loved and working with folks for whom I had the utmost respect and affection. Washington County wardens are different, in that they are down there in the corner of the State cut off from Augusta by Catherine Hill and the Black’s Woods – not necessarily a www.MaineSportsman.com

Back in those days, we would get in behind the suspect vehicle and follow them in the dark, driving by their headlights. Then we would pull up alongside, turn on our headlights, the blue light and the siren – it always worked like a charm.

bad thing.

Dry Season It was the last night of hunting season in 1972.

It had been a mighty dry fall for Carlton and me as far as catching night hunters went – we hadn’t apprehended a single one.

For a while that night, we worked the Bucknam Fields just south of Rt.1 in Columbia Falls. We saw one outfit that was hunting, but they were pretty careful and didn’t really give us enough to stop and arrest them.

About midnight, we decided to move down to Wescogus Corner. Route 187 to Jonesport and the Wescogus Road coming out of Addison come together there. There was an old orchard on one side, and a cemetery directly across the road.

As was usually the case, I was the wheelman and Carlton was riding shotgun. I pulled into the cemetery and started to back in between the gravestones.

“He’s Lighting!”

In the distance,

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could see headlights coming just below the crest of a hill. My backup lights were turned off, but I had to get into position before the other car got much closer.

Finally, I got back to where I wanted to be, turned my vehicle off and we waited. The car came down Rt. 187 headed for Jonesport, but when it got to the intersection it turned on to the Wescogus Road and slowed down to a crawl. When it got directly in front of us, a beam of light came out of the driver’s side and illuminated the old apple trees in the orchard.

It seemed like everything went into slow motion. I remember Carlton saying, “He’s lighting.

Get in behind him.”

I started my vehicle and pulled out of the cemetery on to the Wescogus Road.

suspect vehicle and follow along behind them in the dark, driving by their headlights. When the time was right, we would pull up alongside, turn on our lights, the blue light, the siren, and maybe crowd them a little. For me, it always worked like a charm. Things are a lot different today.

In this case, we didn’t have to stop them, because they pulled into a turn-around. I simply pulled in behind them and turned my lights on.

Carlton went to the passenger’s side and I went to the driver’s side.

The driver’s window was down and the driver was looking directly at me.

I said, “Get out of that car.” The door opened and a leg came out by me.

The leg was so big and long that seemed like it reached nearly across the turn-around.

No Headlights for Us Back in those days, we drove without lights in situations such as this, because it prevented most high-speed chases. We would get in behind the

“Get Back in the Car” I said, “Get back in that car.” He said, “I thought you wanted me to get out?” I said, “Well, I just changed my mind.

Give me your keys and

some ID.” This guy was big, and not an ounce of fat on him. Better keep him in the car where he doesn’t have the advantage.

I noticed a flashlight on the seat beside the suspect. Carlton already had the passenger out and was taking the Remington 1100 shotgun out of the car and unloading it.

After I read them their Miranda rights, the driver, Killer Jones, said that they had been up to Bangor and were on their way back to Jonesport when he decided to see if there were any deer in the orchard and that the passenger had been asleep. The poor kid didn’t know a thing until Carlton hauled his door open.

We arrested only Killer, and took him to Machias. His passenger followed us over with Mr. Jones’ car so he would have transportation as soon as he bailed out.

Parting as Friends As we were getting ready to leave the jail in Machias, Killer said, “Hey, if I come over to court Monday and plead guilty, can I have my gun back”? I said, “Sure.”

On Monday evening there was a knock on the door, and when I answered it, there was Killer with a receipt for $200 from the court. I gave him back his shotgun, and we parted as friends.

Lt. Bill Allen was a member of the Maine Warden Service for 33 years, until his retirement in 2005.

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ATV Violations Top Wardens’ List Last year, Maine game wardens responded to 3,449 calls for service regarding landowner relations. Those calls resulted in 1,378 summonses and 681 warnings.

Interestingly, ATV violations resulted in by far the most summonses and warnings. In fact ATV violations got nearly half of the summonses and more than half of the warnings issued for the entire year. Hunting violations resulted in the highest number calls for service.

Here’s a breakout of the calls – • trespass: 133 • littering/illegal dumping: 128 • landowner property damage: 27 • hunting violations: 993 • trapping: 86 • ATV violations: 686 • snowmobile violations: 649 • public lectures/ talks: 449 • general information on landowner relations: 298 Total 3,449

• shooting too close to a dwelling: 26 summons 9 warnings • snowmobile noise level: 220 summons 152 warnings • snowmobile (other): 311 summons, 152 warnings • trespass (criminal): 45 summons 38 warnings Totals: 1,378 summonses, and 681 warnings Budget The Warden Service budget in FY2018 was $20,069,296, and they actually spent $18,649,053.

The budget was 33.3% of the department’s entire budget, and their spending ended up being 39.9% of the department’s expenditures that year.

Here’s where the money came from: • $16,280,208 from the General Fund • $1,120,503 from federal funds • $1,248,342 from other special revenue funds.

Commissioner Camuso I was a strong advocate for Judy Camuso and was delighted when Governor Janet Mills chose Judy to be DIFW Commissioner. Today I am going to share with you some of Judy’s testimony at her confirmation hearing. As you will see, she has a good understanding of the department’s challenges, and she’s moving forward with an ambitious list of improvements. Here’s what she said.

CHALLENGES: The biggest challenges facing our agency are 1) climate change; 2) engagement; 3) access; and 4) funding.

1) Climate Change will affect habitats, migration patterns, food supplies and availability, and will increase the spread of disease and parasites for our fish and wildlife populations. The potential impacts are catastrophic, and mitigating climate change will re-

quire high level support, planning and funding.

The Department needs to be prepared to address or plan for these issues.

2) Engagement -People will protect what they care about. However, more and more people are not going outside.

Richard Louv documented this back in 2005 with his book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder.” Nationally, the rates of people participating in hunting and fishing activities are steadily declining. People are increasingly disconnected from the outdoors and more connected to

their phones and tablets.

It is incumbent on us to reverse this trend.

3) Access: One of the key obstacles to hunting and fishing is access to land. I would like to ensure we have a wildlife management area or water access site within 30 mins of all major communities. It also is imperative to maintain the access we are fortunate to have now. Over 90% of Maine is privately owned. It is essential that we continue to support our private landowners so that both Mainers and visitors alike will be able to continue to access areas to fish, hunt, snow(Continued on next page)

Summonses and Warnings Here are the number of summonses and warnings issued: • abuse of property: 13 summons 8 warnings • ATV: 601 summons 392 warnings • causing a projectile to enter illegally: 28 summons 11 warnings • littering or illegal dumping: 53 summons 10 warnings • shooting a weapon over a paved way: 26 summons 11 warnings • shooting from the motor vehicle: 55 summons 1 warning www.MaineSportsman.com

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DIF&W Commissioner, Judith Camuso, began her IF&W career as a wildlife biologist.

mobile, trap, bird, boating and many other outdoor activities.

4) Funding: The Department is funded almost entirely through the sale of hunting and fishing licenses and through a federal excise tax on hunting, fishing and shooting sports. Most of our work on any bird or mammal (game or nongame) and fish management is funded using these federal funds. I will work with the Legislature to identify the need to secure a more stable, consistent source of funding for the agency.

PRIORITIES: One of my first priorities as Commissioner would be to evaluate our Information and Education (I&E) Division. Our ability to educate and engage the public is vital to our success as an agency. Currently, the Director of I&E is an appointed position; and there have been 6 directors in the past 10 years. If appointed Commissioner, I would like to assign the appointed position to the Commissioner’s office to coordinate communication with the Governor’s office and press secretary. I will

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Have we turned a corner toward better deer hunting in Maine? I’d like to think so, but I remain skeptical. Without more protection of critical winter habitat and increased effort against deer predators, not much will change in northern and eastern Maine. The strength of Maine’s deer resource now lies in southern and central Maine, where management plans call for more hunting in the short term, leading to further reductions in deer numbers in the long term.

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strengthen our team in marketing, social media, and web design.

We need to reach out to new audiences to make sure the public understands that in addition to managing deer, bear, moose, and brook trout, we also manage bald eagles, piping plovers, New England cottontails and spring salamanders. We have volunteer citizen science programs to engage people, get them outside, and participate with our agency. We need to continue to develop relationships with people from all walks of life, so they understand what we do and why we do it.

We need to recruit new hunters and anglers. As a woman from a non-hunting family, I plan to lead the agency on this issue.

Closely aligned… is our communication plan, which also outlines the need to engage with a broader audience. Our plan will include measurable goals for recruiting, retaining and reactivating hunters and anglers, but it will build relationships with non-consumptive users as well.

Our agency has faced two statewide referendums on bear hunting in a period of ten years; I

am keenly aware of how important it is to have public support for our programs. If we want to maintain our authority to manage the state’s wildlife, we need support from a broad spectrum of citizens.

For resource enforcement, I will work with the Warden Service to continue their focus on intentional and repeat violators. I will also work to simplify our rules and laws. I’m not sure which are more complicated, our fishing or trapping rules.

They are a challenge for our staff to interpret, let alone the public. Simplifying our rules and laws will help Warden Service dedicate their time to intentional violators.

I will work with the Fisheries Division to manage fisheries on a watershed basis where appropriate. I will also encourage additional focus on conservation issues/non-game fish, invasive species, and more involvement and engagement with partners and the public. I will look to simplify our regulations while continuing to protect our native fisheries, and implement a simple to use, online, map-based regulation program.

And then another 10,000 or 15,000 of the lake trout that were over 18 inches long. That really was what turned things around for Moosehead.

Tim Obrey, Moosehead Region Fisheries Biologist, about a Moosehead Lake ice fishing togue tournament, created to help rebuild brook trout numbers. John Holyoke story, Bangor Daily News, January 24, 2019 — New Hampshire wildlife officials previously found 12 deer dead after they had been fed corn in winter. A deer’s digestive system slowly changes throughout the year to follow their natural feeding patterns. They do not have the proper bacteria in their gut to digest corn and other high-calorie lowfiber foods in the middle of winter, so all 12 of these deer bloated and died. The BEST thing you can do for deer in these stressful times is to leave them undisturbed by dogs or people in their wintering areas. If you are a landowner, you can also work with a biologist

VISION: In ten years, I would like to see MDIFW flourishing; managing healthy fish and wildlife populations with broad support from the public, the conservation community, and staff. I envision people from all parts of the state engaged with the agency at some level. We will have increased participation in hunting and fishing as well our volunteer citizen science programs.

Hunting and fishing are the core of our agency and will continue to be so, as hunting and fishing are the primary tools we use to manage fish and wildlife populations, ensure these populations are healthy and at socially acceptable levels. As more people are engaged in wildlife watching, birding, and non-consumptive activities, the Department needs to grow, stay relevant to their needs and connect with these markets. **** There was much more to Judy’s presentation, but this gives you a good understanding of her goals, which I hope you will actively support.

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or forester to promote proper softwood cover for deer wintering areas.

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, February 2, 2019 — Turkey populations in southern and central Maine are doing very well, while populations in northern and eastern Maine may still have room to grow. This year, MDIFW is beginning an effort to get a better idea of turkey populations throughout the state, which will help the department make better management decisions about the turkey population.

DIFW’s Allen Starr column, February 6, 2019 — The number of youth hunting licenses in Maine has dropped precipitously over 15 years… from 17,515 in 2002 to 10,593 in 2017.

Deirdre Fleming report, Portland Press Herald, February 11, 2019.

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Preventing and Repairing Flat Tires on Your ATV

by Steve Vose Last spring while I was ATV riding, my left front tire suffered a puncture. While the hole wasn’t huge, it did cause the tire to rapidly lose air pressure, and the only way I was able to make it back to camp was by repeatedly re-inflating the tire with a hand pump.

Examining the tire at camp, I noted that a large nail was the cause of the leak. Unfortunately, it was a long drive to a repair shop, and I had no tools available to fix the problem.

So the rest of the long Patriots Day weekend, I was forced to sit at

camp while the rest of my friends enjoyed epic trail riding. Shame on me for not having the knowledge and tools that would have allowed me to make a super-easy tire repair.

Under Pressure Flat tires are among the most common types

of ATV breakdowns. Initially, the best cure is an ounce of prevention – checking your tire pressures before you head out.

The factors that go into setting and maintaining the right ATV tire pressure include 1) the manufacturer’s rec-

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ommended pressures of 7 to 8 PSI for best traction and ride comfort.

On consistently soft surfaces, such as gravel, mud or unpacked snow, tire pressures can be reduced to 3 to 4 PSI, which improves overall traction.

And finally, when transporting heavy loads, such as tools, gear or an additional passenger, tire pressures can be increased to 8 to 9 PSI – just never exceed the pressure listed on the sidewall.

If readers find all of these adjustments confusing, note that most ATV manuals reference 5 to 6 PSI as a good compromise tire pressure for normal trail riding and also a safe PSI for avoiding most tire troubles.

As always, reference the owner’s manual, because given the wide range and variety of designs of ATVs today, these general guidelines may not be applicable for your particular machine.

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Because of this, ATV riders who “slime” their tires should thoroughly inspect their tires after each ride. “Sliming” costs approximately $12 per tire.

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Trail-Side Repair Having the proper tools and knowledge will enable riders to fix most tire troubles.

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The key here is to never leave home without a tire repair kit.

While several companies make these repair kits, my favorite is made

by Slime. This simple kit is comprised of only four components – a reamer for cleaning out the puncture hole; rope plugs and rubber cement for sealing the hole; and a plug driver for inserting the rope plug into the hole.

With this simple kit, even those tires with large punctures can be repaired. For large holes, multiple rope plugs can be stacked on top of each other and sealed with rubber cement.

Even if you are unable to make a “forever” repair, at the very least a big leak can be slowed enough so you can get safely home or two a tire shop.

Your tool kit should also include a set of pliers for pulling the nail out of the tire, and wire cutters for trimming the rope plug.

Clubmembers Can Help Fix Your Tire A big advantage of joining an ATV club and hitting the trails with other riders is that if you have a problem like a flat tire, even if you yourself don’t have the right tools to make the fix, it’s likely that someone else can loan you the tools you need.

In my area of central Maine, there are three regional clubs: Central Maine ATV Club in Fairfield, the Messalonskee Trail Riders in Oakland, and the China Four Seasons Club in China.

Despite the posting of large parcels of land in this area, these local ATV clubs have done an excellent job working with landowners to keep trails open.

I recently had a chance to talk with Tom Rumpf, president of the China Four Seasons

Club. Tom told me that the need for members for all ATV clubs has never been more critical.

He cited three factors as having created that need – a lower level of volunteerism, dwindling land availability, and slight strains in relations with certain landowner due to the actions of a few less-responsible riders.

The China Four Season Club is an impressive organization, boasting a sizable club house, ample parking and a beautiful sand beach located on the shores of China Lake.

All 40+ miles of club-maintained trails are easily accessible from the club house.

Four Seasons Events Tom outlined for me the large number of exciting activities and events scheduled to occur throughout the summer months for club members, including a club ride, a club booth at the “China Days” celebration the first weekend in August, and a club raffle for an AR10 rifle.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Four Season Club, call 207-416-2070, email rrrumpf@cianbro.com, or join members at one of their club meetings, held on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 7 pm at their clubhouse located across from the town office in South China, ME 04358.

Wherever in Maine you live, there’s likely to be an ATV club a short distance away. The sport has given you a great deal of pleasure and adventure, so give back, by joining a club and giving them a hand. Show your appreciation for what they’ve accomplished, and help them show their thanks to the many private landowners who have willingly opened their properties for the establishment and maintenance of trails.

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Maine Wildlife:

Brook Trout

by Tom Seymour

For me, April is synonymous with brook trout. I’m not talking big brook trout, either, but rather the 7- to 8-inch kind of wild brook trout that inhabit small streams throughout Maine.

Maine is unique in the union in that brook trout are ubiquitous in our state – we’re the last stronghold of the native brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis. Little streams, even those that nearly go dry in summer, hold brook trout in April. And that explains why many anglers dream all winter long about April 1, the first day of trout fishing in brooks and streams under general law.

Long before ostrich fern fiddleheads poke their tightly furled tops out of the rich soil of streamsides and other damp places, dandelions begin to acquire a plump appearance and so we spend time on our knees, popping the mostly despised “weed” out of the ground with special forked digging tools. These become the wild complement to a dish of crispy-golden, fried brook trout. In my case, groundnuts, another wild food found along the riparian habitat in April, round out the meal. Others choose home-fried potatoes.

But what is it that makes these diminutive fish so special? Certainly, their unmatched flavor, sweet and mild, has much to do with their popularity. But there’s something else, too, and that probably has as much to do with the places where we find wild brook trout as anything else. Sure, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIF&W) stocks brook trout in some pretty developed areas, even in the middle of towns. But the wild variety aren’t found there.

Wild trout – as in never stocked, the kind that existed in situ in these small waterways since the beginning – have certain requirements that must be met. These include cold water and shade. Yes, we can catch wild brookies in sunlight parts of a stream, but mostly they prefer to lay suspended over either sand or gravel bottoms, near cover such as undercut banks, boulders or even downed trees. There, these speckled beauties linger, part-andwww.MaineSportsman.com

A wild trout in its native environment is a sight to behold. The chalk-white piping on the leading edge of the fins, the often-orange belly, and most of all the spots, leave the author enchanted. parcel with their environment. The two cannot be separated.

Spellbinding Sight Sometimes while fishing in some gin-clear water, I’ll spy a trout finning near bottom.

But often, instead of immediately casting to it, my instinct tells me to stop and watch. A wild trout in its native environment makes a sight to behold. The chalk-white piping on the leading edge of the fins, the often-orange belly, and most of all the spots, hold me enchanted.

Finally, after marveling at this natural spectacle, it’s time to cast. Sometimes the trout becomes spooked as my lightly hooked earthworm plunks down a foot in front of it. But most of the time the fish immediately darts out and seizes my offering. For me, this stands as a heart-pounding moment, seeing my quarry rush up and gobble down my earthworm.

All this is saying quite a lot about a fish that in these small streams seldom surpasses 10 inches in length. But again, with wild trout in their natal streams, size matters but little. For me the reward comes from the sum total of the experience. Most of these little trout streams escape detection from the majority of anglers. And many others, although aware that some tiny brook holds brook trout, consider 7-inch fish too small to bother with.

But for me, a freshly killed trout stretched across the palm of my hand, makes every step through dense, streamside brush well worth the effort. And while the efforts of DIF&W and other groups to protect wild strains, or “heritage” trout, in lakes and ponds are laudable and necessary, the great bulk of brook trout biomass is composed of these small, wild brook trout in countless brooks and streams throughout Maine.

Lifetime Trophies Perhaps it’s a good thing that so many anglers forego the wild brook trout in these little streams in favor of larger fish in lakes and ponds. That way, other than being threatened by the scourge of development and streamside deforestation, these little wild trout can go about their business as they have for millennia, with not much to bother them except for the occasional mink.

But all this talk of small trout in small streams is by no means meant to disparage the excellent fishing for huge brook trout in our lakes and ponds. Indeed, the hallmark of a trophy brook trout, at least in my estimation, is 4 pounds. And Mainers have a number of waters to fish where a trout of that size becomes a distinct possibility.

Nationwide, even worldwide, anglers who can afford it travel to northern Canada for the sole purpose of catching a 4-poundplus wild brook trout. Maine, and its treasures of whopping brook trout, has yet to be discovered by serious trophy hunters, and this puzzles me. On the other hand, the fewer anglers who pursue our precious trophy trout resources, the more fish are left for Mainers to enjoy.

Many of our northern and western lakes hold huge brook trout. Being more familiar with Moosehead Lake than with some of our other great trout waters, I’ll use Moosehead as an example. Perhaps five years ago, something happened to Moosehead Lake brook trout. Oh, there were always trophy trout around, but they weren’t taken with any great degree of regularity. And then, Moosehead trout became supercharged, growing to weights of 4, 5 and 6-pounds.

Even better, these giant trout began showing up all around the lake, and now a 4-pound trout barely suffices to raise an eyebrow. Anyone who visits Moosehead Lake and puts their time in has an excellent chance of taking a trophy of a lifetime.

Stockies, Too

Our DIF&W raises and releases several strains of brook trout.

For many years, what was termed the “Maine Hatchery Strain” dominated the scene. But now, DIF&W has reinvigorated this strain with the addition of new genes. And the result, many of our hatchery raised trout appear nearly identical to the wild variety. And that’s a good thing.

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Boat Trailering Made Easy

by David Putnam, Waldo, ME There’s a world of water to explore in Maine, offering majestic beauty and fine fishing. Once the snow and ice melts, why not trailer to a couple of new ramps?

Trailering has been around for hundreds of years. Native American tribes pulled early trailers—travois—behind their horses, dragging their personal belongings, food and fishing tackle made of string with handmade hooks.

With the invention of the automobile, it was just a matter of time before American outdoor enthusiasts invented the boat trailer to increase their fishing range and options.

History The first boat trailers

were lumbering, heavy transporters, often with full-side automobile wheels and tires. Later, lightweight galvanized steel and aluminum were used to construct the frames.

Conventional trailers usually featured carpet-covered wood cradles.

In the 1960s, as anglers began to haul bigger, fancier boats, trailers were designed with rollers, so the owners could unload and load their large boats more quickly and more conveniently.

diversity Maine offers.

Take for example the Kennebec River Valley and environs, which offer large inland lakes, ponds and the mighty river itself that flows from The Forks, through Madison and Anson, Waterville and Augusta. From Augusta downriver, the Kennebec’s tidal action ebbs and flows all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

With a bit of logistical planning, anglers in this region who start early in the day can catch salmon, large- and smallmouth bass, brown trout, brookies and rainbows, and then head out for “schoolie” striped bass—and still be home for supper.

It’s easy to find ramp locations in the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer. Take a look at the inside front

cover to interpret the two types of launch symbols – a solid boat hull designates a trailerable launch site, while a hollow outline of the same hull icon marks the hand-carry sites.

Trailering Tips Here are a few trailering tips and reminders that apply in most situations.

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• Use wide, quality tie-down straps. A little duct tape over the buckles is good insurance if you’re taking a long trip.

• For the ride to the ramp, stow almost everything inside your vehicle.

• Make sure the boat’s drain plug is screwed in tight.

• Put the boat key in the ignition – then you won’t panic and look goofy at the ramp searching for it.

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• Pull off to a safe spot and load your gear and tackle into the boat.

Take a quick walkaround to see that you’ve removed all the straps.

Recheck the plug. Now you can head to the ramp.

• If you’re new to trailering, practice before your first launch at an empty ramp when it’s not busy. You don’t want to hold folks up on a crowded summer weekend.

• Someone will need to unhook the boat’s tow strap and safety chain, then control the boat’s bow line as it comes off the trailer. As the designated driver, especially if launch traffic is busy, try to avoid having to walk back and help the line handler, but instead drive your vehicle and empty trailer up to the parking area so you don’t delay the next boat in line. Managing all this smoothly is the sign of a knowledgeable skipper.

• If you can, check out ramps in advance.

How’s the parking? Is the area lighted for your return? Got toilets? Picnic tables?

• When it’s time to reload the boat after your trip, make sure the safety chain is attached to the boat’s towing eye before

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To the rescue: I have a lightweight, spare Danforth-type anchor on a 30foot line. That day at Indian Pond, I climbed into the boat, stood there like a Wild West buckaroo, swung the anchor around my head and heaved it off the stern. Then I set the anchor by hand and made it fast to a lifting ring.

With the stern of the boat firmly secured to the anchor, it was easy enough to drive the trailer out from under the boat, leaving it floating in the shallow water.

The scene may have looked a bit crazy, but I wasn’t about to miss a day on the water in Maine.

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Feds Blame Shutdown for Delay in Groundfish Rules

by Barry Gibson At the New England Fishery Management Council’s meeting on January 30th, NMFS’s Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office’s (GARFO) Regional Administrator Mike Pentony stated that, due to the 35-day government shutdown, the 2019 recreational regulations would not be implemented by May 1st. He did not give a projected date by when that might

be accomplished.

Those of us listening in on the meeting were stunned. The government was back to work, and May 1st was a solid three months away, yet we (the recreational sector) were being told we wouldn’t have a couple of simple cod and haddock regulations in place for the beginning of the coming season.

What made it doubly

painful was that the recreational sector came in well under its 220 metric ton (mt) Gulf of Maine cod ACL in 2018, with a projected mortality (entirely via release mortality) of around 150 metric tons, leaving some 70 mt of cod “on the table.”

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That would certainly be better than the complete prohibition we’ve had to endure the past two years.

Alternatively, the cod ACL shortfall of 2018 could result in a higher bag limit for haddock.

The bag limit was reduced from 15 to 12 haddock per angler in 2018, because NMFS surmised that people would stay

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and nobody knows when that might be – New England anglers will have to fish under last year’s no-cod-possession rule and 12-haddock bag limit.

Last year, with no government shutdown to blame it on, GARFO was nonetheless unable to implement the 2019 groundfish regs until July 30th, a full three months after they should have gone into effect on May 1st. All of this underscores the low priority GARFO assigns to the recreational fishery in New England, a complaint many of us have been voicing for years that always seems to fall on deaf ears.

Again, I’ll report as soon as I learn more.

Striper Outlook Discouraging The results of a 2018 coast-wide stock assessment for striped bass indicate that this iconic species may be overfished and in trouble – again.

Data suggests that stocks of Atlantic striped bass have fallen well below the “threshold” number of spawning-age females, which will likely trigger tighter restrictions for striper anglers.

The preliminary findings of the assessment were presented in mid-February to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), consisting of representatives from coastal states from Maine to Florida that manage striped bass and inshore species. The full analysis was not available due to delays caused by the government shutdown earlier in the year, but the ASMFC representatives believe the results would likely be the same when the full report comes out.

Stripers were fished to very low levels in the 1980s, which led to a moratorium on catches.

Stocks recovered by 1997. The population stayed relatively high for a decade, then be-

gan to fall off due to poor year classes and weather patterns. New restrictions were put into place in 2015, including the change from the slot limit to a 28” minimum size here in Maine.

Spawning Stock Decline The trigger for management action takes place when the spawning stock biomass (an estimate of the number of reproductive-age females) falls below 91,436 metric tons (mt). The new assessment indicates that the biomass dropped to 68,476 mt in 2017, and may have been below the threshold for several years before then.

Interestingly, restrictions that increased the minimum size appear to have increased the number of stripers that were caught, handled, and released, but which ultimately died. Data indicated that this might be 10% of all bass caught, and these “deaths” may actually be more than the

Striped bass restrictions coming?

In addition to uncertainty in the groundfish rules, Maine anglers may face tighter striped bass regulations in the near future due to the the current condition of the striper population all along the East Coast. Barry Gibson photo

number of fish that were actually kept.

The final and complete stock assessment will be discussed at the ASMFC meeting in May, and further restrictions on recreational catches will be discussed.

I’m not sure what this will mean for Maine anglers, as we really don’t have a whole lot left to

give up except perhaps reverting to some sort of restrictive slot limit, a catch-and-release fishery only, or a shortened season, even though our fishing season is about the shortest of any state.

I’ll be following developments on this front very closely, and will report back.

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AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN AUBURN DURHAM DURHAM DURHAM DURHAM LEWISTON LEWISTON LISBON LISBON LISBON LISBON LISBON LISBON LISBON LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE LIVERMORE MECHANIC FALLS MECHANIC FALLS MECHANIC FALLS MECHANIC FALLS MINOT MINOT MINOT MINOT POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER

ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) AUBURN L BASIN B PETTINGILL PARK P ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R MEADOW B MEADOW B NEWELL B NEWELL B STETSON B STETSON B ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R BEAVER PARK P #2 BEAVER PARK P #3 BEAVER PARK P #3 LITTLE R LITTLE R BARTLETT P BRETTUNS P BRETTUNS P BRETTUNS P BRETTUNS P BRETTUNS P BRETTUNS P LONG P LONG P LONG P LONG P ROUND P ROUND P ROUND P ROUND P ROUND P ROUND P ROUND P ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) RANGE P (LOWER) RANGE P (LOWER) RANGE P (LOWER) RANGE P (LOWER) RANGE P (MIDDLE) RANGE P (MIDDLE) RANGE P (MIDDLE) RANGE P (MIDDLE) RANGE P (MIDDLE) RANGE P (UPPER) RANGE P (UPPER) RANGE P (UPPER) RANGE P (UPPER) RANGE P (UPPER) THOMPSON L TRIPP P TRIPP P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P CRYSTAL (BEALS) P CRYSTAL (BEALS) P CRYSTAL (BEALS) P CRYSTAL (BEALS) P CRYSTAL (BEALS) P CRYSTAL (BEALS) P NEZINSCOT R NEZINSCOT R NEZINSCOT R NEZINSCOT R

SPECIES

QTY

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200 200 220 200 250 330 220 110 110 220 8000 110 110 165 165 165 300 330 220 110 110 220 500 330 200 500 100 500 35 500 20 100 40 500 100 200 100 500 440 40 100 20 300 300 330 300 525 525 577 525 10000 300 300 190 330 25 650 333 325 16 39 300 375 150 11 750 400 50 220 75 750 175 462 62 16 220 50 275 35 300 15 1000 715 110 16000

SIZE (IN.) DATE 8 8 8 8 7 10 10 10 10 10 2 10 10 10 10 10 8 10 10 10 10 7 8 10 10 10 11 13 17 7 18 11 17 13 13 10 11 13 7 17 13 18 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 2 14 11 14 15 23 13 14 13 16 19 13 14 13 16 7 11 17 10 11 8 13 7 12 16 10 11 7 17 13 18 8 10 10 2

4/24/2018 4/25/2018 5/15/2018 5/15/2018 5/30/2018 5/1/2018 5/17/2018 4/19/2018 4/24/2018 5/18/2018 5/31/2018 4/19/2018 5/17/2018 4/19/2018 5/17/2018 5/1/2018 5/15/2018 4/19/2018 5/17/2018 4/18/2018 4/18/2018 10/30/2018 5/15/2018 5/17/2018 4/30/2018 4/30/2018 9/27/2018 10/17/2018 10/25/2018 10/26/2018 11/9/2018 9/27/2018 10/11/2018 10/17/2018 10/26/2018 4/30/2018 9/27/2018 10/17/2018 10/25/2018 10/25/2018 10/26/2018 11/9/2018 4/24/2018 4/25/2018 5/15/2018 5/15/2018 4/24/2018 4/25/2018 5/15/2018 5/15/2018 10/31/2018 3/1/2018 10/12/2018 10/23/2018 2/28/2019 6/8/2018 10/16/2018 10/23/2018 10/25/2018 11/19/2018 6/8/2018 10/16/2018 10/23/2018 10/25/2018 11/19/2018 5/29/2018 10/1/2018 10/26/2018 5/2/2018 9/28/2018 10/18/2018 10/18/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 4/19/2018 9/27/2018 10/25/2018 10/25/2018 10/26/2018 11/9/2018 5/7/2018 5/17/2018 5/17/2018 6/14/2018

CITY/TOWN TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER TURNER

WATER NEZINSCOT R NEZINSCOT R NEZINSCOT R NEZINSCOT R PLEASANT P PLEASANT P

DYER BROOK DYER BROOK EAGLE LAKE FORKSTOWN TWP FORT FAIRFIELD FORT KENT FORT KENT FORT KENT GRAND ISLE HAYNESVILLE HAYNESVILLE HODGDON HODGDON HOULTON HOULTON HOULTON ISLAND FALLS ISLAND FALLS ISLAND FALLS ISLAND FALLS ISLAND FALLS LIMESTONE LIMESTONE LIMESTONE LINNEUS LINNEUS LINNEUS LINNEUS LINNEUS LINNEUS LINNEUS LITTLETON LITTLETON MADAWASKA MAPLETON MASARDIS MOLUNKUS TWP MOLUNKUS TWP MONTICELLO MONTICELLO MORO PLT MORO PLT NEW CANADA NEW CANADA NEW LIMERICK NEW LIMERICK NEW LIMERICK NEW LIMERICK NEW LIMERICK NEW LIMERICK NEW LIMERICK NEW LIMERICK

STILES P STILES P DICKWOOD L MATTAWAMKEAG R (EAST BRANCH) MONSON P FISH RIVER FISH RIVER FISH RIVER CORBIN P MATTAWAMKEAG R MATTAWAMKEAG R HODGDON DEADWATER STEWART P BROWN P CHURCH ON THE HILL P LOGAN L PLEASANT L PLEASANT L ROCK CRUSHER P ROCK CRUSHER P ROCK CRUSHER P DUREPO L DUREPO L TRAFTON L DREWS (MEDUXNEKEAG) L DREWS (MEDUXNEKEAG) L MUD P MUD P MUD P MUD P MUD P CARRY L DEEP L #1 DAIGLE P (MADAWASKA) HANSON BROOK L SCOPAN STREAM MOLUNKUS L MOLUNKUS L CONROY L MEDUXNEKEAG R (NORTH BRANCH) HALE P ROCKABEMA L DAIGLE P SLY BROOK L (THIRD) COCHRANE L NICKERSON L NICKERSON L NICKERSON L NICKERSON L NICKERSON L NICKERSON L NICKERSON L MATTAWAMKEAG R (EAST BRANCH) SPAULDING L SPAULDING L TIMONEY L GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST) ARNOLD BROOK L ARNOLD BROOK L ARNOLD BROOK L ECHO L ECHO L ECHO L MANTLE L HANNINGTON P BLACK P SCOPAN L MCNALLY P (UPPER) SCOPAN L SCOPAN L SCOPAN L SCOPAN L ROUND MOUNTAIN P ROWE L UGH L ISLAND P

OAKFIELD OAKFIELD OAKFIELD OAKFIELD ORIENT ORIENT ORIENT PRESQUE ISLE PRESQUE ISLE PRESQUE ISLE PRESQUE ISLE PRESQUE ISLE PRESQUE ISLE PRESQUE ISLE REED PLT SAINT JOHN PLT SQUAPAN TWP T11 R10 WELS T11 R4 WELS T11 R4 WELS T11 R4 WELS T11 R4 WELS T11 R8 WELS T11 R8 WELS T12 R14 WELS T14 R8 WELS

SPECIES BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON

QTY 75 40 200 200 380 50

SIZE (IN.) 11 17 12 12 14 11

DATE 9/27/2018 10/25/2018 10/31/2018 11/2/2018 10/25/2018 10/26/2018

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

250 150 2000 1000 2000 500 300 650 200 750 750 250 250 100 165 250 2000 900 330 20 200 2000 500 2500 450 500 600 283 300 68 400 1500 600 200 2500 350 1000 350 500 250 700 800 500 150 200 400 424 200 800 75 400 32

10 7 6 10 10 9 13 13 10 10 10 12 10 10 10 10 10 8 10 17 13 7 13 7 12 13 10 10 13 17 13 8 7 10 7 13 13 13 10 10 6 10 7 9 13 10 10 12 13 17 13 17

4/30/2018 9/25/2018 10/15/2018 5/22/2018 5/10/2018 6/5/2018 9/27/2018 9/27/2018 5/21/2018 5/22/2018 5/22/2018 10/2/2018 4/30/2018 4/30/2018 5/30/2018 5/7/2018 5/1/2018 5/23/2018 5/14/2018 11/2/2018 11/2/2018 10/4/2018 10/10/2018 10/4/2018 10/2/2018 10/19/2018 4/30/2018 6/6/2018 10/18/2018 11/8/2018 11/19/2018 11/7/2018 10/10/2018 5/21/2018 10/10/2018 9/27/2018 10/2/2018 10/2/2018 5/7/2018 5/21/2018 10/15/2018 5/15/2018 10/22/2018 5/30/2018 10/4/2018 4/30/2018 6/6/2018 10/2/2018 10/3/2018 11/2/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018

BROOK TROUT

600

10

5/22/2018

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

283 400 3000 1000 1625 800 300 1000 23 283 6600 25 500 300 600 545 1000 400 250 200 545 500 250 1000 500

10 13 7 11 8 13 10 13 17 10 7 17 10 10 6 13 10 9 13 14 13 10 13 7 6

6/6/2018 10/10/2018 9/25/2018 5/16/2018 5/25/2018 10/9/2018 5/7/2018 10/22/2018 11/8/2018 6/6/2018 10/18/2018 11/8/2018 5/30/2018 5/8/2018 10/15/2018 10/23/2018 5/15/2018 6/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/23/2018 10/23/2018 5/30/2018 10/11/2018 10/15/2018 9/21/2018

AROOSTOOK COUNTY

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WATER MOCCASIN P BEAVER TAIL P BLACK P (LITTLE SO) TOGUE P MADAWASKA L MADAWASKA L CROSS L LONG L MATTAWAMKEAG L UMCOLCUS L NUMBER NINE L MEDUXNEKEAG R (NORTH BRANCH) BEN L DEERING L DEERING L FAULKNER L GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST)

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT

QTY 100 325 50 100 450 1050 500 4000 2000 500 500 250 300 1000 300 250 1000 1000 2400 800

SIZE (IN.) 10 10 6 10 13 13 9 8 13 13 7 10 6 10 8 13 11 11 8 13

DATE 5/30/2018 5/30/2018 9/21/2018 6/13/2018 10/22/2018 11/15/2018 6/5/2018 5/31/2018 9/26/2018 10/11/2018 10/5/2018 5/21/2018 10/15/2018 5/8/2018 5/23/2018 11/2/2018 5/8/2018 5/16/2018 5/25/2018 10/9/2018

BALDWIN BALDWIN BALDWIN BRIDGTON BRIDGTON BRIDGTON BRIDGTON BRIDGTON BRIDGTON BRIDGTON BRIDGTON BRIDGTON CASCO CASCO CASCO CASCO CASCO CASCO CUMBERLAND CUMBERLAND FALMOUTH FALMOUTH GORHAM GORHAM GORHAM GORHAM GORHAM GORHAM GORHAM GORHAM GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY HARRISON HARRISON HARRISON HARRISON HARRISON HARRISON HARRISON NAPLES NAPLES NAPLES

SACO R SAND P SAND P ADAMS P HIGHLAND L HIGHLAND L LONG L STEVENS B STEVENS B STEVENS B WILLETT B WOOD P COFFEE P PARKER P SONGO R SONGO R THOMAS P THOMAS P PISCATAQUA R PISCATAQUA R PISCATAQUA R PISCATAQUA R ALDEN'S P ALDEN'S P LITTLE R LITTLE R LITTLE R LITTLE R (NORTH BRANCH) LITTLE R (NORTH BRANCH) LITTLE R (NORTH BRANCH) COLLYER B COLLYER B COLLYER B COLLYER B COLLYER B CRYSTAL L (DRY P) CRYSTAL L (DRY P) CRYSTAL L (DRY P) CRYSTAL L (DRY P) CRYSTAL L (DRY P) CRYSTAL L (DRY P) CRYSTAL L (DRY P) CRYSTAL (ANONYMOUS) P CRYSTAL (ANONYMOUS) P LONG L LONG L LONG L LONG L LONG L COLD RAIN P COLD RAIN P COLD RAIN P

BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

300 200 14 400 300 300 625 400 1155 400 440 650 100 200 330 330 300 16 165 250 165 900 110 110 605 1000 605 110 300 110 220 110 800 990 300 50 50 250 250 285 16 200 75 250 500 95 550 625 2500 300 500 100

11 13 15 10 12 11 11 10 9 10 9 13 10 13 10 10 13 16 10 8 10 8 10 10 10 8 10 10 8 10 10 10 8 10 10 17 19 13 13 13 16 13 7 13 7 17 13 11 6 10 8 13

9/28/2018 10/16/2018 11/21/2018 4/25/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 11/6/2018 4/23/2018 5/15/2018 5/23/2018 5/15/2018 10/11/2018 4/26/2018 10/22/2018 4/19/2018 5/8/2018 10/22/2018 11/19/2018 5/2/2018 5/8/2018 5/2/2018 5/8/2018 4/12/2018 5/13/2018 4/18/2018 5/3/2018 5/16/2018 4/18/2018 5/3/2018 5/16/2018 4/19/2018 4/25/2018 5/8/2018 5/18/2018 6/7/2018 4/27/2018 6/7/2018 10/15/2018 10/16/2018 10/18/2018 11/19/2018 12/6/2018 5/30/2018 10/17/2018 5/30/2018 10/30/2018 10/31/2018 11/6/2018 11/15/2018 5/15/2018 10/16/2018 10/16/2018

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

CITY/TOWN NAPLES NAPLES NAPLES NAPLES NAPLES NAPLES NAPLES NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NEW GLOUCESTER NORTH YARMOUTH NORTH YARMOUTH NORTH YARMOUTH POWNAL POWNAL POWNAL RAYMOND RAYMOND RAYMOND RAYMOND RAYMOND SCARBOROUGH SEBAGO SEBAGO SEBAGO SEBAGO SOUTH PORTLAND SOUTH PORTLAND SOUTH PORTLAND SOUTH PORTLAND STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH STANDISH

WATER MUDDY R MUDDY R MUDDY R TRICKEY P TRICKEY P TRICKEY P TRICKEY P BRANDY B LILY P PINELAND P PINELAND P ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R SABBATHDAY L SABBATHDAY L SABBATHDAY L SABBATHDAY L SABBATHDAY L STEVENS B STEVENS B STEVENS B STEVENS B CHANDLER B CHANDLER B ROYAL R CHANDLER B CHANDLER B CHANDLER B (EAST BRANCH) CRESCENT L JORDAN R JORDAN R PANTHER P SEBAGO L NONESUCH R BARKER P NORTHWEST R NORTHWEST R PEABODY P HINKLEY P (LOWER) HINKLEY P (LOWER) HINKLEY P (UPPER) HINKLEY P (UPPER) OTTER P #2 OTTER P #2 OTTER P #2 OTTER P #2 OTTER P #2 OTTER P #2 OTTER P #2 OTTER P #2 OTTER P #4 OTTER P #4 OTTER P #4 OTTER P #4 OTTER P #4 OTTER P #4 OTTER P #4 SACO R SACO R SACO R SACO R SEBAGO L

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON

QTY 150 300 330 800 800 100 50 110 300 220 165 110 110 350 330 16000 550 175 175 400 16 110 220 220 100 110 150 300 440 300 550 200 300 300 450 1125 450 150 200 200 350 47 200 200 47 220 30 220 600 125 16 63 463 40 110 110 300 75 11 100 220 220 150 150 375

SIZE (IN.) 10 10 10 10 10 7 13 10 8 10 10 10 10 8 10 2 10 12 11 13 16 10 10 10 10 10 8 8 10 8 10 7 10 10 7 7 8 13 10 10 7 13 10 10 13 10 17 10 8 13 16 12 7 14 10 10 8 13 16 14 10 10 11 13 7

DATE 4/25/2018 5/16/2018 6/12/2018 4/24/2018 4/26/2018 5/30/2018 10/16/2018 5/8/2018 5/11/2018 4/10/2018 5/17/2018 4/20/2018 4/24/2018 5/15/2018 5/18/2018 5/31/2018 5/1/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 10/18/2018 11/19/2018 4/10/2018 5/2/2018 5/18/2018 6/7/2018 5/2/2018 5/8/2018 5/8/2018 5/2/2018 5/8/2018 5/2/2018 5/29/2018 4/23/2018 5/9/2018 5/29/2018 5/30/2018 5/3/2018 10/11/2018 4/23/2018 5/9/2018 5/29/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 4/27/2018 4/27/2018 6/13/2018 10/22/2018 10/22/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 1/19/2018 4/27/2018 6/13/2018 10/22/2018 10/22/2018 11/19/2018 1/12/2019 4/24/2018 5/18/2018 9/28/2018 10/25/2018 5/30/2018

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32 • April 2019 • The Maine Sportsman —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— CITY/TOWN WESTBROOK WESTBROOK WESTBROOK WESTBROOK WESTBROOK WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM WINDHAM YARMOUTH YARMOUTH YARMOUTH YARMOUTH YARMOUTH YARMOUTH YARMOUTH YARMOUTH

WATER BEAVER P MILL B MILL B MILL B PRESUMPSCOT R CHAFFIN P CHAFFIN P CHAFFIN P CHAFFIN P CHAFFIN P CHAFFIN P CHAFFIN P PETTINGILL P PLEASANT R PLEASANT R PLEASANT R PLEASANT R PLEASANT R PLEASANT R PLEASANT R PLEASANT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R PRESUMPSCOT R SEBAGO L (LITTLE) SEBAGO L (LITTLE) SEBAGO L (LITTLE) SEBAGO L (LITTLE) ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R ROYAL R

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QTY 220 165 165 250 400 200 220 220 75 500 63 463 80 550 750 250 250 550 450 200 200 220 220 50 880 50 800 900 220 50 50 330 330 150 200 100 250 200 75 200 220 100 16 94 110 25 500 500 700 220 300 300 220 175 100 50 200

SIZE (IN.) 10 10 10 8 8 10 10 10 13 8 12 7 13 10 8 8 8 10 10 11 12 10 10 17 10 17 8 8 10 17 17 10 10 11 13 11 13 11 17 12 11 13 16 13 13 19 12 11 13 10 8 8 10 11 13 17 12

DATE 5/4/2018 4/18/2018 5/4/2018 5/9/2018 5/9/2018 4/23/2018 5/18/2018 6/13/2018 10/15/2018 10/15/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 10/8/2018 4/18/2018 5/3/2018 5/9/2018 5/15/2018 5/16/2018 5/23/2018 9/27/2018 10/31/2018 4/10/2018 4/18/2018 4/27/2018 5/4/2018 5/4/2018 5/10/2018 5/15/2018 5/18/2018 5/18/2018 6/1/2018 6/1/2018 6/13/2018 9/27/2018 10/1/2018 10/9/2018 10/11/2018 10/15/2018 10/26/2018 10/31/2018 11/1/2018 11/2/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 11/30/2018 6/7/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 10/24/2018 4/19/2018 5/8/2018 5/12/2018 5/18/2018 9/27/2018 10/1/2018 10/26/2018 10/31/2018

ALDER STREAM TWP ALDER STREAM TWP ALDER STREAM TWP AVON AVON AVON BEATTIE TWP CARRABASSET VALLEY CARTHAGE CARTHAGE CARTHAGE CHAIN OF PONDS TWP CHAIN OF PONDS TWP CHAIN OF PONDS TWP CHAIN OF PONDS TWP CHAIN OF PONDS TWP CHESTERVILLE CHESTERVILLE CHESTERVILLE COPLIN PLT COPLIN PLT DALLAS PLT DALLAS PLT DALLAS PLT DALLAS PLT DALLAS PLT EUSTIS FARMINGTON FARMINGTON FARMINGTON FARMINGTON FARMINGTON FARMINGTON FARMINGTON FARMINGTON FARMINGTON INDUSTRY INDUSTRY INDUSTRY JIM POND TWP JIM POND TWP

BLANCHARD P DEAD R (NORTH BRANCH) DEAD R (NORTH BRANCH) MOUNT BLUE P MOUNT BLUE P SCHOOLHOUSE P BOUNDARY P

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

450 600 600 500 20 200 700

6 10 9 13 17 7 10

10/3/2018 5/9/2018 6/4/2018 10/22/2018 10/29/2018 10/23/2018 6/11/2018

CARRABASSETT R

BROOK TROUT

250

10

5/2/2018

PODUNK P WEBB R WEBB R BUG EYE P CARIBOU BOG CHAIN OF PONDS CHAIN OF PONDS OTTER P EGYPT P NORCROSS P NORCROSS P DEAD R (SOUTH BRANCH) DEAD R (SOUTH BRANCH) DEAD R (SOUTH BRANCH) DEAD R (SOUTH BRANCH) DEAD R (SOUTH BRANCH) LOON L SADDLEBACK L BARNARD P MT BLUE HIGH SCHOOL P SANDY R SANDY R SANDY R SANDY R SANDY R SANDY R TEMPLE STREAM TEMPLE STREAM CLEARWATER P CLEARWATER P MUDDY B JIM P (BIG) JIM P (LITTLE)

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400 500 500 200 150 800 700 150 300 850 27 250 250 500 500 500 3000 800 1250 50 1000 500 1000 2000 550 200 500 350 1800 200 50 550 1000

9 10 10 9 9 10 13 9 10 13 16 10 10 10 10 13 7 10 7 9 9 9 8 8 11 13 9 9 9 11 10 10 7

5/29/2018 5/3/2018 5/23/2018 6/4/2018 6/4/2018 5/21/2018 10/10/2018 5/29/2018 5/8/2018 10/23/2018 11/14/2018 5/9/2018 5/23/2018 5/9/2018 5/23/2018 10/11/2018 10/9/2018 5/31/2018 10/29/2018 6/1/2018 5/1/2018 5/2/2018 5/10/2018 5/14/2018 9/26/2018 10/11/2018 5/2/2018 5/11/2018 5/14/2018 10/26/2018 4/20/2018 6/8/2018 10/25/2018

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CITY/TOWN JIM POND TWP JIM POND TWP JIM POND TWP JIM POND TWP KIBBY TWP KINGFIELD KINGFIELD KINGFIELD KINGFIELD KINGFIELD KINGFIELD KINGFIELD LANG TWP LANG TWP LOWELLTOWN TWP MADRID MADRID MADRID MADRID MADRID MADRID MADRID NEW SHARON NEW SHARON NEW SHARON NEW SHARON NEW SHARON NEW SHARON NEW SHARON NEW SHARON PERKINS TWP PERKINS TWP PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PHILLIPS PHILLIPS RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY RANGELEY SANDY RIVER PLT SANDY RIVER PLT SANDY RIVER PLT SANDY RIVER PLT SANDY RIVER PLT SANDY RIVER PLT STRONG STRONG STRONG STRONG STRONG STRONG STRONG TEMPLE TEMPLE TOWNSHIP 6 NORTH OF TOWNSHIP 6 NORTH OF TOWNSHIP D TOWNSHIP D TOWNSHIP D TOWNSHIP E TOWNSHIP E TOWNSHIP E WELD WELD WELD WELD WELD WELD WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WILTON WYMAN TWP

WATER TEA P TEA P TEA P (LITTLE) VILES P (LITTLE) HURRICANE P CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R DUTTON (SHILOH) P GRINDSTONE P DEAD R (SOUTH BRANCH) DEAD R (SOUTH BRANCH) INDIAN P (BIG) BEAL (TROUT) P HARVEY P HARVEY P HARVEY P HARVEY P SANDY R SANDY R CROWELL P CROWELL P CROWELL P CROWELL P SANDY R SANDY R SANDY R SANDY R HILLS P HILLS P LONG COVE P LUFKIN P LUFKIN P LUFKIN P SANDY R SANDY R STETSON P TOOTHAKER P TOOTHAKER P DODGE P DODGE P HALEY B HALEY P HALEY P QUIMBY P RANGELEY GUIDES P RANGELEY L RANGELEY L RANGELEY L ROUND P ROUND P EDDY P LEDGE P MIDWAY P ROCK P SANDY RIVER P (MIDDLE) SOUTH (PINE TREE) P PORTER L PORTER L PORTER L PORTER L PORTER L SANDY R SANDY R TEMPLE STREAM TEMPLE STREAM MUD POND TUMBLEDOWN P BEAVER P MOXIE P SPENCER P LONG P ROUND P SWIFT RIVER P WEBB L WEBB L WEBB L WEBB L WEBB L WEBB L VARNUM P VARNUM P VARNUM P WILSON P WILSON P WILSON P WILSON P WILSON STREAM WILSON STREAM WILSON STREAM WILSON STREAM THE HORNS P

SPECIES BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

QTY 800 150 200 200 1000 200 250 500 200 100 1200 300 250 250 1950 1900 250 150 27 220 100 100 1100 27 250 250 500 1000 150 100 300 2000 100 100 20 380 500 50 1000 250 220 591 105 150 600 600 2000 100 1000 453 50 453 90 500 200 400 500 4000 600 1300 1350 300 75 500 500 100 200 150 350 500 2000 300 900 650 1600 450 150 800 800 900 200 489 400 400 200 1400 1200 300 75 250 500 250 250 150

SIZE (IN.) 10 8 2 2 7 9 10 8 10 13 7 10 10 10 7 6 10 13 16 9 10 13 13 16 8 9 10 8 11 13 10 7 10 13 17 13 10 13 6 10 9 9 10 9 9 13 7 11 8 9 9 9 10 6 7 6 6 7 6 9 13 11 18 9 9 13 9 9 2 6 7 7 6 9 7 6 8 13 13 13 11 13 9 10 8 10 13 11 18 10 10 10 10 2

DATE 6/6/2018 6/6/2018 5/24/2018 5/24/2018 10/1/2018 5/2/2018 5/2/2018 5/10/2018 6/1/2018 10/12/2018 10/3/2018 5/22/2018 5/9/2018 5/23/2018 10/1/2018 10/3/2018 5/9/2018 10/30/2018 11/9/2018 11/29/2018 5/1/2018 10/11/2018 10/12/2018 11/14/2018 11/28/2018 11/28/2018 5/2/2018 5/14/2018 9/26/2018 10/11/2018 5/3/2018 10/2/2018 5/10/2018 10/15/2018 10/29/2018 10/30/2018 5/1/2018 10/11/2018 10/3/2018 5/1/2018 11/29/2018 6/6/2018 6/7/2018 5/23/2018 5/23/2018 11/15/2018 10/29/2018 8/7/2018 5/23/2018 6/6/2018 6/7/2018 6/6/2018 6/7/2018 10/3/2018 10/5/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 10/9/2018 10/3/2018 5/7/2018 10/10/2018 10/26/2018 11/2/2018 11/28/2018 5/1/2018 10/11/2018 5/2/2018 5/11/2018 5/25/2018 10/3/2018 10/2/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 5/29/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 6/12/2018 10/11/2018 10/12/2018 10/25/2018 10/26/2018 11/6/2018 5/9/2018 5/9/2018 5/9/2018 5/18/2018 10/22/2018 10/26/2018 11/2/2018 4/20/2018 5/3/2018 6/1/2018 6/1/2018 6/8/2018

AMHERST AMHERST AMHERST AURORA BAR HARBOR

DUCKTAIL P PARTRIDGE P TROUT P BRANCH P (UPPER MIDDLE) BREAKNECK P (LOWER)

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT

260 591 269 75 250

7 7 7 8 7

10/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 5/10/2018 10/25/2018

HANCOCK COUNTY

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WATER BREAKNECK P (UPPER) BUBBLE P BUBBLE P BUBBLE P EAGLE L EAGLE L EAGLE L EAGLE L HALFMOON P LAKE WOOD LAKE WOOD WITCH HOLE P WITCH HOLE P WALKER P WALKER P HANCOCK P JACOB BUCK P JACOB BUCK P PHILLIPS (LUCERNE) L PHILLIPS (LUCERNE) L LILY P LILY P MOLASSES P MOLASSES P BRANCH L GREEN L GREEN L LITTLE P JONES P JONES P GREAT P KING P LONG P SIMMONS P SIMMONS P SIMMONS P HOPKINS P ECHO L ECHO L ECHO L HADLOCK P (LOWER) HADLOCK P (LOWER) HADLOCK P (LOWER) HADLOCK P (UPPER) HADLOCK P (UPPER) HADLOCK P (UPPER) JORDAN P LONG (GREAT) P ROUND P DUCK L DUCK L

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON LAKE TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT

QTY 275 175 50 600 100 400 50 3375 125 500 600 1125 50 500 700 60 350 100 400 700 1183 50 150 300 1000 600 800 150 700 100 350 200 550 125 50 200 600 25 300 800 600 75 27 875 50 27 75 500 100 500 2000

SIZE (IN.) 7 10 13 7 8 13 18 7 7 10 7 7 13 13 12 12 10 13 8 13 7 12 8 12 8 8 8 10 13 12 12 12 13 10 13 7 13 8 13 7 7 13 17 7 13 17 8 13 13 8 7

DATE 10/25/2018 5/16/2018 11/15/2018 11/15/2018 5/15/2018 11/8/2018 11/14/2018 11/15/2018 10/25/2018 5/23/2018 10/25/2018 10/25/2018 10/25/2018 10/18/2018 10/18/2018 10/22/2018 5/3/2018 11/6/2018 5/11/2018 10/25/2018 10/6/2018 11/15/2018 5/10/2018 10/23/2018 5/11/2018 5/11/2018 5/15/2018 5/23/2018 10/26/2018 11/15/2018 10/3/2018 10/5/2018 10/18/2018 5/16/2018 10/22/2018 10/22/2018 10/25/2018 5/15/2018 11/8/2018 11/15/2018 10/25/2018 11/8/2018 11/26/2018 10/25/2018 11/8/2018 11/26/2018 5/15/2018 11/6/2018 11/15/2018 5/30/2018 10/9/2018

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WATER SELMORE (KILLMAN) P CRAIG P CRAIG P CRAIG P HEART P ORLAND R ORLAND R TODDY P BEECH HILL P SPRINGY P (LOWER) SPRINGY P (LOWER) YOUNGS P YOUNGS P LONG (GREAT) P FLANDERS P FLANDERS P LONG P QUARRY P TUNK P (LITTLE) PATTEN P (LOWER) PATTEN P (LOWER) TODDY P TODDY P ANDERSON P FOX P FOX P FOX P LONG P LONG P (LITTLE) RAINBOW P SALMON P SPRING RIVER L SPRING RIVER L TILDEN P TUNK L TUNK L LEAD MTN P (LO & MD) LEAD MTN P (UPPER) LEAD MTN P (UPPER) WILLIAMS P

SPECIES BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROWN TROUT SPLAKE BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT

QTY 300 125 100 1100 200 400 150 550 350 300 50 250 75 200 800 100 1021 150 2500 200 100 1000 1000 250 400 3000 125 125 250 753 323 400 700 1344 700 1000 300 550 75 250

SIZE (IN.) 7 8 13 7 10 10 13 8 8 14 17 7 13 8 13 12 7 13 7 8 12 10 12 8 10 7 12 12 7 7 7 13 12 7 8 10 12 12 14 13

DATE 10/9/2018 5/11/2018 10/22/2018 11/6/2018 5/3/2018 5/16/2018 10/25/2018 5/11/2018 5/10/2018 10/26/2018 11/26/2018 10/22/2018 10/26/2018 5/15/2018 10/18/2018 11/19/2018 10/5/2018 11/15/2018 11/19/2018 5/11/2018 10/11/2018 5/1/2018 10/11/2018 10/5/2018 5/16/2018 10/23/2018 10/23/2018 10/23/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 5/10/2018 5/23/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 10/17/2018 10/26/2018

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34 • April 2019 • The Maine Sportsman —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— CITY/TOWN T3 ND T3 ND T3 ND T3 ND T3 ND T3 ND T3 ND T32 MD T32 MD T32 MD T32 MD T32 MD T32 MD T34 MD T34 MD T35 MD T40 MD T40 MD T40 MD T40 MD T40 MD T40 MD T40 MD T40 MD T40 MD T9 SD TREMONT WINTER HARBOR WINTER HARBOR

WATER NICATOUS L SIDE PISTOL L SPRING L SPRING L WEST L WEST L WEST L PICKEREL P PICKEREL P PICKEREL P PICKEREL P PICKEREL P TITCOMB P LOVEJOY P LOVEJOY P BURNT LAND L CRYSTAL P LOON P NICATOUS L NICATOUS L NICATOUS L OXHEAD P (MIDDLE) OXHEAD P (MIDDLE) OXHEAD P (UPPER) TROUT P DONNELL P SEAL COVE P BIRCH HARBOR P BIRCH HARBOR P

SPECIES SPLAKE BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

QTY 2500 400 250 1000 1000 800 500 500 70 247 500 40 350 800 75 350 700 300 1500 500 1000 150 20 600 300 450 100 100 150

SIZE (IN.) 4 10 9 7 10 8 13 10 15 10 13 17 11 7 13 10 6 7 10 13 13 13 17 7 7 8 12 13 7

DATE 5/23/2018 5/23/2018 5/24/2018 10/1/2018 5/2/2018 5/2/2018 10/4/2018 5/8/2018 5/8/2018 6/5/2018 10/10/2018 11/14/2018 5/24/2018 10/1/2018 11/7/2018 5/11/2018 9/20/2018 10/12/2018 5/8/2018 10/4/2018 10/16/2018 10/12/2018 11/14/2018 10/2/2018 10/12/2018 5/10/2018 11/15/2018 11/6/2018 11/6/2018

AUGUSTA AUGUSTA AUGUSTA AUGUSTA AUGUSTA BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE BELGRADE CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA CLINTON FAYETTE FAYETTE FAYETTE FAYETTE FAYETTE FAYETTE GARDINER LITCHFIELD LITCHFIELD LITCHFIELD LITCHFIELD LITCHFIELD LITCHFIELD LITCHFIELD MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MONMOUTH MOUNT VERNON MOUNT VERNON MOUNT VERNON MOUNT VERNON

TOGUS P TOGUS P TOGUS P TOGUS P TOGUS VA HOSPITAL BELGRADE STREAM BELGRADE STREAM BELGRADE STREAM BELGRADE STREAM BELGRADE STREAM BELGRADE STREAM GREAT P GREAT P GREAT P LONG P LONG P SALMON L (ELLIS P) SALMON L (ELLIS P) SALMON L (ELLIS P) SALMON L (ELLIS P) CHINA L CHINA L CHINA L THREEMILE P THREEMILE P SEBASTICOOK R BASIN P ECHO L (CROTCHED P) ECHO L (CROTCHED P) ECHO L (CROTCHED P) ECHO L (CROTCHED P) ECHO L (CROTCHED P) COBBOSSEECONTEE STREAM DENNIS B LITCHFIELD SPORTSMAN CLUB P POTTERS B WOODBURY P WOODBURY P WOODBURY P WOODBURY P COBBOSSEECONTEE L FAIRBANKS P FAIRBANKS P JAMIES (JIMMIE) P JAMIES (JIMMIE) P JAMIES (JIMMIE) P JAMIES (JIMMIE) P JAMIES (JIMMIE) P COBBOSSEECONTEE L COBBOSSEECONTEE L COCHNEWAGON P COCHNEWAGON P COCHNEWAGON P COCHNEWAGON P COCHNEWAGON P COCHNEWAGON P COCHNEWAGON P JUG STREAM JUG STREAM MONMOUTH SPORTSMAN CLUB P SAND P (TACOMA LKS) SAND P (TACOMA LKS) SAND P (TACOMA LKS) SAND P (TACOMA LKS) WILSON P WILSON STREAM MINNEHONK L MINNEHONK L MINNEHONK L MINNEHONK L

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

250 200 400 550 300 250 150 200 17292 7236 200 624 1186 690 150 150 500 500 500 500 200 1250 200 600 300 250 100 300 300 150 200 300 1000 6000 200 6000 220 440 282 200 900 50 50 600 330 100 400 20 800 800 200 300 475 40 20 500 200 71 45 100 330 282 440 200 200 300 200 100 500 20

10 10 12 13 10 9 9 10 4 4 10 12 11 12 10 9 10 12 13 8 10 11 13 12 13 10 10 10 10 7 13 13 10 3 10 3 10 7 14 12 11 11 13 10 10 13 13 18 11 11 14 11 14 17 18 8 16 14 17 10 10 14 7 12 11 10 10 13 13 18

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KENNEBEC COUNTY

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CITY/TOWN MOUNT VERNON MOUNT VERNON MOUNT VERNON MOUNT VERNON OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND OAKLAND ROME ROME SIDNEY SIDNEY SIDNEY SIDNEY SIDNEY SIDNEY VASSALBORO VASSALBORO VASSALBORO VASSALBORO VIENNA VIENNA VIENNA VIENNA VIENNA WATERVILLE WATERVILLE WAYNE WINDSOR WINDSOR WINDSOR WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP WINTHROP

WATER MINNEHONK L PARKER P PARKER P TORSEY L MCGRATH P MCGRATH P MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE STREAM MESSALONSKEE STREAM LONG P LONG P GOULD P GOULD P MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L MESSALONSKEE L SILVER L CHINA L SPECTACLE P SPECTACLE P WEBBER P FLYING P FLYING P FLYING P FLYING P KIMBALL P MESSALONSKEE STREAM MESSALONSKEE STREAM ANDROSCOGGIN L SAVADE P SAVADE P SAVADE P MARANACOOK L MARANACOOK L MARANACOOK L MARANACOOK L NARROWS P (LOWER) NARROWS P (LOWER) NARROWS P (UPPER) NARROWS P (UPPER) NARROWS P (UPPER) WAYNE F&G CLUB P

SPECIES BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROWN TROUT SPLAKE RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

QTY 500 300 350 385 500 25 250 250 300 200 29614 200 500 400 400 2800 500 200 200 6500 1000 1300 50 250 500 150 500 300 100 350 125 800 400 400 1900 200 250 20 400 350 220 400 325 200 325 200 400 200

SIZE (IN.) 8 7 13 13 13 18 10 10 10 10 4 13 8 10 10 13 13 10 10 4 12 13 13 10 10 12 13 9 13 13 11 7 10 10 11 13 7 18 10 7 13 13 10 13 10 10 13 10

DATE 11/26/2018 6/4/2018 10/24/2018 10/31/2018 10/25/2018 11/20/2018 4/27/2018 5/8/2018 5/21/2018 5/31/2018 5/31/2018 10/24/2018 11/26/2018 4/23/2018 5/9/2018 10/24/2018 11/6/2018 4/25/2018 5/1/2018 5/23/2018 10/9/2018 11/2/2018 10/24/2018 4/25/2018 5/3/2018 11/14/2018 11/14/2018 5/1/2018 10/11/2018 10/23/2018 10/26/2018 10/11/2018 4/23/2018 5/9/2018 10/1/2018 11/2/2018 11/2/2018 11/20/2018 5/2/2018 6/4/2018 10/31/2018 11/5/2018 4/24/2018 11/5/2018 4/25/2018 5/2/2018 11/5/2018 5/16/2018

APPLETON APPLETON APPLETON APPLETON APPLETON APPLETON CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN CAMDEN HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE ISLE AU HAUT NORTH HAVEN ROCKLAND ROCKLAND ROCKPORT ROCKPORT ROCKPORT ROCKPORT ROCKPORT ROCKPORT ROCKPORT UNION UNION UNION UNION UNION UNION VINALHAVEN VINALHAVEN WARREN WARREN WARREN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON

SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SENNEBEC P GOOSE R HOSMER P HOSMER P HOSMER P HOSMER P HOSMER P MEGUNTICOOK R MEGUNTICOOK R MEGUNTICOOK R MEGUNTICOOK R MEGUNTICOOK R MEGUNTICOOK R ALFORD L ALFORD L ALFORD L ALFORD L ALFORD L HOBBS P HOBBS P LONG P (TURNERS L) FRESH P CHICKAWAUKIE P CHICKAWAUKIE P MACES P MACES P MACES P ROCKY P ROCKY P ROCKY P ROCKY P SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R BOOTH QUARRY P LAWSON QUARRY P SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R CRYSTAL P CRYSTAL P CRYSTAL P CRYSTAL P

BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT

25 300 275 250 100 250 200 250 15 250 50 50 400 10 50 100 200 150 200 500 110 20 200 250 100 1000 50 250 500 20 300 250 275 10 60 250 30 400 275 350 500 100 125 125 200 250 200 25 200 100 20

19 10 10 13 12 13 10 10 18 13 12 19 10 23 19 13 13 13 10 13 11 18 12 10 13 7 13 10 13 18 8 13 10 18 13 8 19 9 10 13 12 12 10 10 9 13 12 17 13 12 18

4/12/2018 5/10/2018 5/24/2018 10/18/2018 10/30/2018 10/17/2018 4/24/2018 5/1/2018 11/15/2018 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 12/4/2018 4/24/2018 6/8/2018 6/8/2018 10/17/2018 10/31/2018 11/6/2018 5/1/2018 10/24/2018 11/5/2018 11/15/2018 11/21/2018 5/1/2018 10/31/2018 10/6/2018 11/12/2018 5/1/2018 10/24/2018 11/15/2018 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 5/24/2018 11/15/2018 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 4/12/2018 5/8/2018 5/24/2018 10/18/2018 10/18/2018 10/30/2018 5/13/2018 5/13/2018 5/8/2018 10/18/2018 10/18/2018 10/11/2018 10/30/2018 10/30/2018 11/20/2018

KNOX COUNTY

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ALNA ALNA ALNA BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BOOTHBAY BREMEN BREMEN BREMEN BREMEN BREMEN BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL DAMARISCOTTA DAMARISCOTTA DAMARISCOTTA JEFFERSON NOBLEBORO SOUTH BRISTOL SOUTH BRISTOL SOUTH BRISTOL WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WALDOBORO WISCASSET WISCASSET

PINKHAM P PINKHAM P PINKHAM P ADAMS P KNICKERBOCKER P KNICKERBOCKER P KNICKERBOCKER P KNICKERBOCKER P KNICKERBOCKER P WILEY P WILEY P WILEY P BISCAY P BISCAY P BISCAY P BISCAY P MCCURDY P PEMAQUID R PEMAQUID R PEMAQUID R ROSS P UPPER P LITTLE P PEMAQUID P PEMAQUID P DAMARISCOTTA L PEMAQUID P THOMPSON'S ICE P THOMPSON'S ICE P THOMPSON'S ICE P KALERS P MEDOMAK P (LITTLE) MEDOMAK P (LITTLE) MEDOMAK P (LITTLE) MEDOMAK R MEDOMAK R MEDOMAK R MEDOMAK R MEDOMAK R MEDOMAK R MEDOMAK R PETERS (GROSS) P WALDOBORO QUARRY P MONTSWEAG B POLY CLARK B

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

150 150 15 275 200 200 10 25 300 250 600 100 150 300 400 25 250 400 400 200 250 100 500 750 200 1000 200 100 250 50 100 200 100 100 85 600 600 550 300 200 250 200 200 400 100

13 13 18 10 10 8 23 19 13 10 8 13 13 12 13 18 12 10 10 12 10 10 10 13 13 12 13 10 8 13 12 10 13 12 19 10 10 10 13 12 12 10 10 10 10

10/16/2018 11/19/2018 11/20/2018 4/19/2018 5/17/2018 5/18/2018 6/8/2018 6/8/2018 11/26/2018 5/17/2018 11/26/2018 11/26/2018 10/9/2018 10/10/2018 11/1/2018 11/20/2018 10/10/2018 5/2/2018 5/17/2018 11/21/2018 5/2/2018 5/17/2018 5/8/2018 10/15/2018 11/1/2018 10/9/2018 11/1/2018 5/17/2018 11/21/2018 11/21/2018 10/10/2018 5/1/2018 10/30/2018 10/30/2018 4/12/2018 4/24/2018 5/9/2018 5/24/2018 10/30/2018 10/30/2018 10/30/2018 5/21/2018 5/17/2018 5/2/2018 5/2/2018

ADAMSTOWN TWP ADAMSTOWN TWP ADAMSTOWN TWP ADAMSTOWN TWP ADAMSTOWN TWP ALBANY TWP ALBANY TWP ALBANY TWP ALBANY TWP ALBANY TWP ALBANY TWP ALBANY TWP ALBANY TWP ANDOVER ANDOVER BATCHELDERS GRANT T BATCHELDERS GRANT T BATCHELDERS GRANT T BETHEL BETHEL BETHEL BETHEL BETHEL BETHEL BROWNFIELD BROWNFIELD BROWNFIELD BUCKFIELD BUCKFIELD BYRON BYRON BYRON BYRON BYRON CANTON

GOODWIN P RICHARDSON P (LOWER EAST) RICHARDSON P (UPPER EAST) RICHARDSON P (WEST) RICHARDSON P (WEST) BROKEN BRIDGE P CROCKER P CROCKER P HUTCHINSON P HUTCHINSON P ROUND P SONGO P SONGO P ELLIS R ELLIS R (WEST BRANCH) WILD R WILD R WILD R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R BURNT MEADOW P BURNT MEADOW P BURNT MEADOW P NEZINSCOT R (EAST BRANCH) NEZINSCOT R (WEST BRANCH) ELLIS P (LITTLE) ELLIS P (LITTLE) SWIFT R SWIFT R SWIFT R ANASAGUNTICOOK L

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT

100 300 2000 241 575 400 15 200 200 200 350 150 70 500 500 366 352 333 300 1200 150 700 250 375 300 100 150 500 2000 100 3800 500 150 200 500

7 9 7 9 10 6 14 8 12 14 6 14 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 8 13 8 11 13 10 13 13 8 8 8 7 10 8 8 11

10/3/2018 5/29/2018 10/3/2018 6/6/2018 6/7/2018 10/23/2018 10/23/2018 10/23/2018 10/4/2018 10/23/2018 10/5/2018 10/23/2018 10/31/2018 5/3/2018 5/3/2018 5/11/2018 5/24/2018 6/7/2018 5/14/2018 5/14/2018 5/16/2018 5/22/2018 10/4/2018 10/12/2018 5/19/2018 10/14/2018 10/16/2018 5/7/2018 5/7/2018 5/11/2018 10/2/2018 5/3/2018 5/10/2018 5/11/2018 10/9/2018

LINCOLN COUNTY

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QTY 350 13

SIZE (IN.) DATE 10/17/2018

CITY/TOWN CANTON CANTON CANTON DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK DIXFIELD DIXFIELD FRYEBURG FRYEBURG FRYEBURG FRYEBURG FRYEBURG FRYEBURG FRYEBURG GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GILEAD GRAFTON TWP GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD GREENWOOD HANOVER HANOVER HARTFORD HARTFORD HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM HIRAM LOVELL LOVELL LOVELL LOVELL LOVELL MAGALLOWAY PLT MAGALLOWAY PLT MAGALLOWAY PLT MASON TWP MEXICO MEXICO MEXICO MILTON TWP NEWRY NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY

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WATER ANASAGUNTICOOK L FOREST P WHITNEY B HANCOCK P HANCOCK P LONG P MOOSE P SAND (WALDEN) P SAND (WALDEN) P AUNT HANNAH B AUNT HANNAH B CLAYS P CLAYS P CLAYS P OUTLET LOVEWELL P ROUND P SACO R SACO R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R WILD R WILD R WILD R SPECK P ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) INDIAN P INDIAN P OVERSET P SOUTH & ROUND PDS SOUTH & ROUND PDS TWITCHELL B TWITCHELL P TWITCHELL P ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R BUNGANOCK B NEZINSCOT R (EAST BRANCH) CLEMONS P (BIG) CLEMONS P (BIG) CLEMONS P (LITTLE) CLEMONS P (LITTLE) CLEMONS P (LITTLE) HANCOCK B OSSIPEE R OSSIPEE R OSSIPEE R OSSIPEE R SACO R SACO R SACO R STANLEY P STANLEY P BRADLEY P CUSHMAN P HORSESHOE P HORSESHOE P KEZAR L AZISCOHOS P BEAVER P (LITTLE) STURTEVANT P TROUT P ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R ANDROSCOGGIN R CONCORD R SUNDAY R PENNESSEEWASSEE L PENNESSEEWASSEE L PENNESSEEWASSEE L PENNESSEEWASSEE L PENNESSEEWASSEE L OUTLET PENNESSEEWASSEE L OUTLET PENNESSEEWASSEE P (LITTLE) PENNESSEEWASSEE P (LITTLE)

SPECIES BROWN TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT

QTY 25 200 100 500 500 330 650 150 150 150 150 330 100 275 1100 165 165 165 700 300 200 1000 160 140 250 375 732 176 666 200 440 440 600 900 300 500 300 100 190 600 150 143 1000 2000 500 1500 220 150 165 400 100 137 518 1340 516 300 220 220 300 1045 11 100 300 200 150 400 500 1750 200 400 1350 250 250 500 1000 75 75 1850 220 200 200 300 100

SIZE (IN.) 17 9 10 12 11 10 7 11 12 10 10 10 13 10 13 10 10 10 10 8 13 8 18 19 11 13 10 10 10 6 10 10 8 4 10 10 6 7 14 8 12 14 10 8 8 8 10 13 10 8 13 10 10 8 10 11 10 10 11 8 15 13 10 10 13 7 7 7 11 6 8 11 13 9 10 10 19 13 11 10 10 10 12

DATE 10/26/2018 6/11/2018 5/4/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 5/1/2018 5/30/2018 10/2/2018 10/2/2018 5/3/2018 5/23/2018 5/10/2018 10/10/2018 5/10/2018 10/4/2018 5/4/2018 4/24/2018 5/18/2018 5/14/2018 5/14/2018 5/16/2018 5/22/2018 6/6/2018 6/7/2018 10/4/2018 10/12/2018 5/11/2018 5/24/2018 6/7/2018 10/5/2018 4/19/2018 5/11/2018 5/15/2018 6/19/2018 5/2/2018 5/24/2018 10/5/2018 5/23/2018 10/26/2018 5/15/2018 10/4/2018 10/26/2018 5/14/2018 5/14/2018 5/7/2018 5/7/2018 5/1/2018 10/16/2018 5/1/2018 10/16/2018 10/16/2018 5/1/2018 4/19/2018 5/8/2018 5/18/2018 10/2/2018 4/24/2018 5/18/2018 9/28/2018 5/23/2018 10/16/2018 10/14/2018 4/26/2018 5/30/2018 10/28/2018 6/5/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 11/8/2018 10/5/2018 5/22/2018 10/4/2018 10/12/2018 5/4/2018 5/3/2018 5/30/2018 6/7/2018 10/29/2018 11/5/2018 4/23/2018 5/16/2018 4/26/2018 10/4/2018

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WATER PENNESSEEWASSEE P (LITTLE) PENNESSEEWASSEE P (LITTLE) SPECK P #2 GREELEY B PLEASANT L THOMPSON L ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) GREELEY B ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) HALLS P HALLS P HALLS P HALLS P HALLS P HALLS P HALLS P HALLS P LINCOLN P NEZINSCOT R (EAST BRANCH) SPEARS STREAM SPEARS STREAM WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P WORTHLEY P BICKFORD P BICKFORD P BICKFORD P CHAPMAN P COLCORD P RICHARDSON LAKES RICHARDSON LAKES ELLIS (ROXBURY) P ELLIS (ROXBURY) P SWIFT R SWIFT R CONCORD R ELLIS R BACK P (5 KEZARS) KEEWAYDIN L KEEWAYDIN L KEEWAYDIN L VIRGINIA L COLD R COLD R ABBOTTS P CUSHMAN P NEZINSCOT R (EAST BRANCH) NORTH P WASHBURN P KEYS P STEARNS P RICHARDSON LAKES RICHARDSON LAKES B POND BEAR P BEAR P BEAR P ISLAND P KEOKA L KEOKA L MOOSE P ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) ANDROSCOGGIN R (LITTLE) BRYANT P BRYANT P BRYANT P BRYANT P CONCORD P (LITTLE) CONSERVATION CAMP P NORTH P SHAGG P SHAGG P

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT RAINBOW TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT

QTY 700 200 150 150 400 750 200 200 220 300 200 10000 150 300 300 50 100 750 50 16 462 62 700 275 200 600 900 50 400 285 27 300 50 14 165 110 3200 900 1150 990 300 300 1000 500 200 400 250 100 300 495 400 650 600 550 250 275 300 250 2137 900 350 400 50 200 300 700 120 500 660 660 750 900 325 100 550 300 600 100 275 150 500

SIZE (IN.) 8 13 6 10 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 2 10 8 10 11 13 8 17 16 7 12 9 10 10 8 8 19 11 14 16 13 13 15 10 11 9 11 13 9 8 8 9 10 10 10 14 11 13 10 9 6 6 10 13 7 13 13 9 11 8 10 7 13 10 13 11 10 10 10 8 4 10 7 10 13 6 10 13 10 10

DATE 10/17/2018 10/17/2018 10/5/2018 4/25/2018 5/30/2018 5/29/2018 4/24/2018 4/25/2018 5/15/2018 5/15/2018 5/15/2018 10/31/2018 4/25/2018 5/15/2018 4/26/2018 10/10/2018 10/17/2018 10/17/2018 10/26/2018 11/14/2018 11/19/2018 11/19/2018 5/29/2018 5/17/2018 5/4/2018 5/11/2018 5/10/2018 6/8/2018 9/27/2018 10/26/2018 11/14/2018 10/11/2018 10/15/2018 11/21/2018 5/1/2018 11/5/2018 5/23/2018 10/30/2018 10/10/2018 11/29/2018 5/10/2018 5/11/2018 5/4/2018 5/3/2018 5/8/2018 4/26/2018 10/23/2018 10/31/2018 10/16/2018 5/4/2018 5/14/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 5/17/2018 10/5/2018 10/26/2018 10/16/2018 10/11/2018 5/24/2018 10/30/2018 5/29/2018 4/26/2018 5/30/2018 10/9/2018 4/26/2018 10/16/2018 10/31/2018 5/8/2018 4/19/2018 5/11/2018 5/15/2018 6/19/2018 5/2/2018 5/23/2018 5/24/2018 10/12/2018 10/5/2018 5/24/2018 10/28/2018 5/2/2018 5/24/2018

BANGOR BANGOR BANGOR BREWER BREWER BREWER BURLINGTON BURLINGTON BURLINGTON BURLINGTON BURLINGTON CLIFTON CORINNA DEXTER DEXTER DEXTER DEXTER ENFIELD

BANGOR MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE P BANGOR MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE P KENDUSKEAG STREAM PENOBSCOT CLUB P PENOBSCOT CLUB P PENOBSCOT CLUB P BURLINGTON FIRE P BURLINGTON FIRE P BURLINGTON FIRE P BURLINGTON FIRE P BURLINGTON FIRE P FITTS P SEBASTICOOK R (EAST BRANCH) PUFFERS P (ECHO L) SEBASTICOOK R (EAST BRANCH) WASSOOKEAG L WASSOOKEAG L COLD STREAM

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100 75 1000 150 50 425 50 10 10 55 33 400 250 400 100 500 300 220

7 13 10 10 13 7 10 15 15 10 10 10 10 13 10 7 13 10

10/19/2018 10/19/2018 4/30/2018 5/3/2018 10/17/2018 10/17/2018 4/25/2018 4/25/2018 5/2/2018 5/11/2018 6/1/2018 5/3/2018 5/15/2018 10/29/2018 5/15/2018 6/4/2018 10/29/2018 5/11/2018

PENBOSCOT COUNTY

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CITY/TOWN ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ENFIELD ETNA GRAND FALLS TWP HAMPDEN HERMON HERMON LAKEVILLE LAKEVILLE LEE LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN LOWELL LOWELL LOWELL MILLINOCKET MILLINOCKET MILLINOCKET MILLINOCKET MILLINOCKET MILLINOCKET MILLINOCKET MOUNT CHASE MOUNT CHASE MOUNT CHASE MOUNT CHASE MOUNT CHASE MOUNT CHASE MOUNT CHASE MOUNT CHASE NEWPORT OLD TOWN OLD TOWN OLD TOWN OLD TOWN ORONO ORONO ORRINGTON PATTEN PATTEN PATTEN PATTEN SEBOEIS PLT SEBOEIS PLT SOLDIERTOWN TWP T2 SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD T1 R8 WELS T1 R8 WELS T1 R8 WELS T3 INDIAN PURCHASE T T3 R9 NWP T3 R9 NWP T3 R9 NWP T3 R9 NWP T3 R9 NWP T3 R9 NWP T4 INDIAN PURCHASE T T4 R7 WELS T5 R7 WELS T6 R6 WELS T6 R8 WELS T6 R8 WELS T6 R8 WELS T7 R8 WELS T7 R8 WELS

WATER COLD STREAM COLD STREAM COLD STREAM COLD STREAM COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P COLD STREAM P ETNA P PASSADUMKEAG R SOUADABSCOOK STREAM HERMON P HERMON P SYSLADOBSIS L (LO) SYSLADOBSIS L (UP) SILVER (MATTAKEUNK) L CARIBOU,EGG,LONG P CARIBOU,EGG,LONG P COLD STREAM P (UPPER) COLD STREAM P (UPPER) COLD STREAM P (UPPER) COLD STREAM P (UPPER) COLD STREAM P (UPPER) EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P EDWARDS FAMILY KIDS FISHING P ROCKY B ROCKY B ROUND P (LITTLE) UPPER P UPPER P PASSADUMKEAG R PASSADUMKEAG R TROUT P JERRY P JERRY P JERRY P JERRY P JERRY P JERRY P JERRY P SHIN P (LOWER) SHIN P (LOWER) SHIN P (LOWER) SHIN P (LOWER) SHIN P (UPPER) SHIN P (UPPER) SHIN P (UPPER) SHIN P (UPPER) SEBASTICOOK R (EAST BRANCH) MUD P MUD P MUD P MUD P STILLWATER R STILLWATER R BREWER L GILES P WILEY P WILEY P WILEY P SEBOEIS STREAM SEBOEIS STREAM TROUT P MATTAGODUS STREAM MATTAGODUS STREAM MILLINOCKET L MILLINOCKET L MILLINOCKET STREAM

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT

QTY 110 110 110 32548 1500 900 450 920 9443 34718 3300 1200 218 1100 75 47 63 385 16500 200 550 40 1500 250 500 300 20 500 250 460 200 200 20 150 10 165 49 125 30 125 100 165 165 500 400 25 11000 3300 300 70 500 247 500 44 20 110 500 250 300 36 500 250 300 36 250 500 25 22 55 500 247 400 440 5 100 23 250 250 350 250 20 2250 330 400

SIZE (IN.) 10 10 10 2 10 8 8 11 2 1 2 13 8 8 17 13 13 13 1 10 13 17 8 8 13 13 17 10 8 11 13 13 15 10 15 10 10 13 17 13 13 10 10 11 13 17 1 1 11 15 10 10 13 17 17 13 10 8 13 17 10 8 13 17 10 13 17 17 14 10 10 8 10 21 13 17 10 10 10 10 15 8 14 13

DATE 5/17/2018 5/23/2018 5/31/2018 6/13/2018 4/25/2018 4/25/2018 4/25/2018 5/31/2018 6/7/2018 6/7/2018 6/28/2018 10/3/2018 10/30/2018 11/19/2018 11/26/2018 12/3/2018 12/14/2018 10/10/2018 6/7/2018 5/14/2018 10/10/2018 11/26/2018 5/17/2018 5/30/2018 10/18/2018 10/2/2018 11/14/2018 4/25/2018 4/25/2018 5/31/2018 10/2/2018 10/3/2018 4/25/2018 4/25/2018 5/2/2018 5/17/2018 6/1/2018 10/3/2018 11/2/2018 11/2/2018 11/20/2018 5/2/2018 5/17/2018 5/24/2018 10/4/2018 11/15/2018 6/7/2018 6/28/2018 5/24/2018 5/1/2018 5/1/2018 6/1/2018 10/9/2018 11/15/2018 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 5/2/2018 5/2/2018 10/3/2018 11/9/2018 5/2/2018 5/2/2018 10/3/2018 11/9/2018 5/15/2018 10/10/2018 11/14/2018 11/26/2018 11/26/2018 5/16/2018 6/5/2018 5/11/2018 6/1/2018 11/9/2018 11/9/2018 11/9/2018 5/10/2018 5/24/2018 5/24/2018 4/30/2018 4/30/2018 5/9/2018 10/31/2018 10/9/2018

SMITH P

BROOK TROUT

250

13

10/9/2018

CEDAR L CEDAR L ENDLESS L ENDLESS L ENDLESS L FLATIRON P PEMADUMCOOK CHAIN L LUNKSOOS L DAVIS (WAPITI) P GREEN MOUNTAIN P HAY L HAY L HAY L IRELAND P MILLIMAGASSETT L

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250 300 500 1500 500 220 1020 1200 600 200 400 200 200 150 200

8 13 9 4 13 13 13 7 10 7 10 13 13 7 8

5/16/2018 10/4/2018 5/16/2018 5/23/2018 10/12/2018 11/29/2018 10/3/2018 10/15/2018 5/14/2018 10/15/2018 5/14/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 10/15/2018 5/30/2018

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QTY 1200 300 200

SIZE (IN.) 10 8 6

DATE 5/16/2018 5/16/2018 10/15/2018

ABBOT ABBOT ABBOT ABBOT ABBOT ABBOT ABBOT ATKINSON BEAVER COVE BEAVER COVE BEAVER COVE BIG MOOSE TWP BIG MOOSE TWP BIG MOOSE TWP BIG MOOSE TWP BIG MOOSE TWP BLANCHARD TWP BLANCHARD TWP BLANCHARD TWP BLANCHARD TWP BOWDOIN COLLEGE GR BOWERBANK BOWERBANK BROWNVILLE BROWNVILLE BROWNVILLE BROWNVILLE DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT DOVER-FOXCROFT EAST MIDDLESEX CANA ELLIOTTSVILLE TWP ELLIOTTSVILLE TWP ELLIOTTSVILLE TWP FRENCHTOWN TWP FRENCHTOWN TWP FRENCHTOWN TWP GREENVILLE GREENVILLE GREENVILLE GREENVILLE GREENVILLE GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD GUILFORD KINGSBURY PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LAKE VIEW PLT LILY BAY TWP MEDFORD MILO MILO MILO MILO MILO MILO MILO MILO MILO MONSON MONSON

DRUMMOND P DRUMMOND P DRUMMOND P DRUMMOND P DRUMMOND P PIPER P PIPER P ALDER STREAM PRONG P PRONG P PRONG P FITZGERALD P FITZGERALD P FITZGERALD P FITZGERALD P INDIAN P PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R WHETSTONE P WHETSTONE P WILSON P (UPPER) BEAR P MILL B NORTON P NORTON P PLEASANT R PLEASANT R BRANNS MILL P BRANNS MILL P DUNHAM B DUNHAM B DUNHAM B DUNHAM B GARLAND P GARLAND P PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R SNOWS P SNOWS P SNOWS P SPENCER P (BIG) MCLELLAN P RABBIT P SMITH P ROACH P (FIRST) ROACH P (FIRST) ROACH P (FIRST) MOOSEHEAD L SAWYER P SAWYER P SAWYER P WILSON P (LOWER) BENNETT P (BIG) DAVIS P (FIRST) DAVIS P (FIRST) DAVIS P (FIRST) PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R KINGSBURY P SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SEBOEIS L SEBOEIS L TURTLE P MOOSEHEAD L SCHOODIC STREAM MILO FARM (HARRIS) P MILO FARM (HARRIS) P MILO FARM (HARRIS) P MILO FARM (HARRIS) P MILO FARM (HARRIS) P MILO FARM (HARRIS) P SEBEC R SEBEC R SEBEC R BELL P DOE P

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT SPLAKE L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

250 250 250 250 25 600 1000 250 2100 2100 1100 2700 1879 1400 100 1000 400 400 1300 500 50 300 250 14 110 200 800 1200 50 400 440 440 200 100 1000 750 750 750 750 750 750 150 750 250 250 100 800 323 108 100 2300 1000 700 2000 700 700 350 500 600 250 200 700 1500 750 750 750 1500 750 1500 600 1000 750 667 600 1333 1000 1644 150 1 1 500 330 500 1500 24171 100 20 110 10 82 82 400 350 1920 376 550

10 10 10 13 17 10 9 10 10 10 13 9 10 13 17 8 10 10 10 9 8 10 10 17 13 10 10 13 17 10 10 10 12 7 7 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 13 10 10 13 10 7 7 7 10 8 9 8 10 10 13 8 10 10 8 13 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 13 8 10 8 10 13 8 13 18 15 13 14 7 8 1 10 15 10 15 13 13 10 10 8 7 10

5/3/2018 5/24/2018 6/7/2018 10/17/2018 11/14/2018 5/7/2018 5/8/2018 5/22/2018 5/7/2018 5/22/2018 10/19/2018 5/17/2018 6/14/2018 10/30/2018 11/15/2018 5/16/2018 5/8/2018 5/23/2018 5/8/2018 6/13/2018 5/30/2018 5/25/2018 5/1/2018 11/15/2018 11/15/2018 5/8/2018 5/17/2018 10/2/2018 11/14/2018 5/17/2018 5/31/2018 6/5/2018 9/13/2018 10/2/2018 10/17/2018 5/4/2018 5/4/2018 5/7/2018 5/22/2018 5/29/2018 5/29/2018 5/31/2018 10/16/2018 5/1/2018 5/17/2018 10/16/2018 6/15/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 5/16/2018 5/16/2018 6/6/2018 5/16/2018 5/24/2018 6/7/2018 10/19/2018 5/30/2018 5/8/2018 5/7/2018 5/22/2018 10/4/2018 5/2/2018 5/4/2018 5/7/2018 5/7/2018 5/22/2018 5/23/2018 5/29/2018 5/31/2018 10/16/2018 5/25/2018 4/25/2018 4/25/2018 4/27/2018 10/12/2018 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 2/12/2019 2/12/19 10/26/2018 10/31/2018 10/1/2018 5/24/2018 6/7/2018 4/25/2018 4/25/2018 5/17/2018 5/17/2018 10/12/2018 11/14/2018 5/17/2018 5/29/2018 11/20/2018 10/5/2018 5/18/2018

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WATER DOE P DOE P HEBRON L HEBRON L HEBRON L HEBRON L LILY P PISCATAQUIS R PISCATAQUIS R SOUTH P SPECTACLE P SPECTACLE P GRAVEL PIT P GRAVEL PIT P GRAVEL PIT P GRAVEL PIT P POWER TROUT P POWER TROUT P SHADOW P SHADOW P SHADOW P BENNETT P HARLOW P HARLOW P BEAN P (LOWER) BEAN P (UPPER) CLIFFORD P CRESCENT P DEBSCONEAG L (5TH) HOLBROOK P MURPHY P (BIG) BLACK STREAM BLACK STREAM CENTER P CENTER P CENTER P MANHANOCK P MANHANOCK P BEAR B SEBEC R SEBEC R SEBEC R LONG BOG ROACH P (FOURTH) BUNKER P (BIG) SHIRLEY P SHIRLEY P DEBSCONEAG L (6TH) LEAVITT P LAZY TOM P PEMADUMCOOK CHAIN L ISLAND (CHASE) P MOUNTAIN P ELBOW P (UPPER) HALE P BEAN P TEN-FORTY P RAGGED L ABOL P ROCKY P ROUND P TOGUE P (LOWER) CELIA P DRAPER P CARRY P CHESUNCOOK P FOWLER P FROST P MCKENNA P ROCKY P DEER P PINE P (BIG) SALMON P SEBOEIS L SEBOEIS L THISSELL P CARIBOU P (BIG) CARIBOU P (LITTLE) THIRD (MATAGAMON) L HOUSTON P INDIAN & DAM PONDS BEAVER P (BIG) MITCHELL P MATTHEWS P PILLSBURY P (LITTLE) CURRIER P (FIRST) JO-MARY L (UPPER) JO-MARY L (UPPER) LONG P JO-MARY P BILLFISH P FROST P GRINDSTONE P GRINDSTONE P HORSESHOE P

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT

QTY 550 200 1300 850 2200 6400 100 400 400 360 900 900 250 250 250 250 250 250 175 175 200 350 450 20 600 250 250 225 1600 2150 525 250 250 1000 1000 1200 1050 50 250 500 500 250 300 400 200 600 300 600 500 350 1000 750 275 400 750 150 450 2000 750 200 250 500 250 350 500 700 400 1500 800 75 500 1600 900 1500 1000 1500 200 100 1500 1505 1075 500 300 200 1500 250 2000 600 100 300 292 338 833 200 1398

SIZE (IN.) 10 13 10 10 7 7 6 10 10 6 9 10 10 9 10 12 10 10 10 10 7 10 13 17 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 10 10 10 13 12 13 17 10 10 10 13 7 10 10 10 13 7 7 7 13 10 6 10 7 7 7 10 6 6 6 10 6 6 7 7 6 7 7 7 10 7 7 8 10 6 10 10 7 7 7 10 7 6 6 6 10 8 7 7 6 6 7 7 7

DATE 6/5/2018 10/5/2018 5/4/2018 5/22/2018 10/23/2018 10/31/2018 10/5/2018 5/8/2018 5/23/2018 10/5/2018 5/8/2018 5/22/2018 5/3/2018 5/16/2018 5/30/2018 9/7/2018 5/22/2018 6/5/2018 5/21/2018 6/5/2018 10/2/2018 5/18/2018 11/2/2018 11/14/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/1/2018 5/17/2018 5/4/2018 10/4/2018 10/4/2018 10/31/2018 11/14/2018 5/22/2018 5/17/2018 5/29/2018 10/12/2018 10/1/2018 5/30/2018 5/30/2018 5/1/2018 10/30/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/2/2018 5/30/2018 10/15/2018 5/30/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/30/2018 9/25/2018 9/25/2018 9/25/2018 5/9/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/31/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 10/31/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/30/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/9/2018 5/9/2018 9/25/2018 5/24/2018 5/24/2018 10/15/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 5/24/2018 10/3/2018 10/15/2018 10/15/2018 10/15/2018 5/17/2018 5/17/2018 10/1/2018 10/12/2018 10/15/2018 10/15/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018

ARROWSIC BOWDOIN GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN

SEWALL P CAESAR P CHARLES P CHARLES P

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

250 285 165 71

13 14 7 14

11/19/2018 10/26/2018 10/30/2018 10/30/2018

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CITY/TOWN PHIPPSBURG PHIPPSBURG PHIPPSBURG PHIPPSBURG PHIPPSBURG PHIPPSBURG PHIPPSBURG RICHMOND TOPSHAM WOOLWICH WOOLWICH

WATER CENTER P CENTER P CENTER P SILVER L SILVER L SILVER L SPRAGUE P BIG P (SWAN ISLAND) EDDY P (BIG) NEQUASSET L NEQUASSET L

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROWN TROUT

QTY 100 95 14 48 660 10 200 200 200 300 300

SIZE (IN.) 14 14 15 14 8 16 8 10 10 13 12

DATE 2/9/2018 10/30/2018 11/21/2018 10/30/2018 10/30/2018 11/21/2018 10/5/2018 5/10/2018 5/29/2018 11/6/2018 11/19/2018

ALDER BROOK TWP ALDER BROOK TWP ANSON ANSON ANSON ATHENS ATTEAN TWP ATTEAN TWP ATTEAN TWP ATTEAN TWP ATTEAN TWP ATTEAN TWP ATTEAN TWP BALD MOUNTAIN TWP T BALD MOUNTAIN TWP T BOWTOWN TWP BOWTOWN TWP BOWTOWN TWP BOWTOWN TWP BRIGHTON PLT BRIGHTON PLT CANAAN CANAAN CANAAN CANAAN CARATUNK CARATUNK CARATUNK CARATUNK CARATUNK CONCORD TWP CONCORD TWP CONCORD TWP DEAD RIVER TWP DEAD RIVER TWP DENNISTOWN PLT DENNISTOWN PLT DENNISTOWN PLT DENNISTOWN PLT DOLE BROOK TWP EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN EMBDEN FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD FORSYTH TWP FORSYTH TWP HAMMOND TWP HARMONY HARMONY HARTLAND HARTLAND HARTLAND HARTLAND HARTLAND HOBBSTOWN TWP HOBBSTOWN TWP HOLEB TWP HOLEB TWP HOLEB TWP HOLEB TWP JACKMAN JACKMAN LEXINGTON TWP LEXINGTON TWP LONG POND TWP LONG POND TWP MADISON MADISON MADISON

HALE P TRICKEY P KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R WESSERUNSETT STREAM ATTEAN P CLEARWATER P LOON P WOOD P (BIG) WOOD P (BIG) WOOD P (BIG) WOOD P (BIG) AUSTIN P AUSTIN P (LITTLE) KING P MOOSE P OTTER P OTTER P (NORTH) SMITH (WEEKS) P SMITH (WEEKS) P CARRABASSETT STREAM LAKE GEORGE LAKE GEORGE LAKE GEORGE DIMMICK P (BIG) DIMMICK P (LITTLE) MACDOUGALL P MACDOUGALL P MOUNTAIN DIMMICK P TIBBETTS P TIBBETTS P TIBBETTS P FLAGSTAFF L FLAGSTAFF L CROCKER P RANCOURT P SUGAR BERTH P WOOD P (LITTLE BIG) SPAULDING P BLACK HILL P EMBDEN P EMBDEN P EMBDEN P EMBDEN P EMBDEN P EMBDEN P FAHI P HANCOCK P HANCOCK P KENNEBEC R MILL STREAM MILL STREAM MILL STREAM SANDY P SANDY P FAIRFIELD REC (PAL) P FAIRFIELD REC (PAL) P FAIRFIELD REC (PAL) P FAIRFIELD REC (PAL) P KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R BEAVER P LONG P LANE P (LITTLE) HARMONY FIRE P HIGGINS B GREAT MOOSE L MORRILL P MORRILL P MORRILL P SEBASTICOOK R CHUB P SPENCER L HOLEB P HOLEB P HOLEB P MCKENNEY P HEALD STREAM SANDY STREAM MOORES P SPRUCE P LONG P LONG P WESSERUNSETT L WESSERUNSETT L WESSERUNSETT L

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800 450 2000 500 2250 500 1100 350 750 2150 500 1000 95 1000 3800 450 750 5375 3000 300 300 500 400 50 600 2220 2123 100 100 2000 100 100 150 1000 200 2200 450 900 500 550 1000 500 1000 180 150 375 375 300 850 100 650 70 70 70 200 200 300 300 250 50 1000 1000 500 150 1000 300 100 200 800 250 150 250 150 250 600 1000 375 500 1000 500 500 100 2000 800 2200 1000 516 70

7 7 9 13 13 8 8 7 7 10 8 13 17 9 7 6 7 7 7 12 13 10 13 11 13 7 7 10 13 2 9 10 13 8 11 10 7 7 10 7 7 8 10 8 13 13 13 13 9 11 9 9 10 10 12 13 10 9 7 13 12 12 13 7 7 7 10 9 11 9 11 13 10 10 8 10 8 10 7 10 10 10 7 10 10 13 13 17

10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/23/2018 10/15/2018 10/17/2018 5/14/2018 5/30/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/9/2018 5/11/2018 10/10/2018 11/15/2018 6/1/2018 10/15/2018 10/3/2018 10/4/2018 10/3/2018 10/3/2018 10/9/2018 10/17/2018 5/14/2018 10/18/2018 10/28/2018 10/28/2018 10/5/2018 10/5/2018 5/10/2018 10/5/2018 5/22/2018 5/7/2018 5/31/2018 10/15/2018 5/10/2018 10/30/2018 5/25/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/17/2018 10/1/2018 10/3/2018 5/7/2018 5/18/2018 6/12/2018 10/24/2018 10/30/2018 11/1/2018 10/15/2018 5/14/2018 10/30/2018 5/22/2018 5/4/2018 5/23/2018 5/31/2018 10/9/2018 10/24/2018 4/19/2018 5/4/2018 10/16/2018 10/16/2018 10/24/2018 10/26/2018 11/6/2018 10/1/2018 10/9/2018 10/1/2018 5/22/2018 5/1/2018 10/2/2018 5/1/2018 10/2/2018 10/18/2018 5/15/2018 6/6/2018 6/6/2018 5/30/2018 5/30/2018 5/30/2018 10/9/2018 5/11/2018 5/11/2018 5/22/2018 10/4/2018 5/30/2018 6/5/2018 10/17/2018 10/18/2018 10/19/2018

SOMERSET COUNTY

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WATER WESSERUNSETT L WESSERUNSETT L WESSERUNSETT L CHASE STREAM P (LITTLE) DAYMOND P SUPPLY P WYMAN L WYMAN L FISH P MUD POND CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R CARRABASSETT R SANDY R PARLIN P SMITH P BASIN P HORSESHOE P KILGORE P KILGORE P (UPPER) PIERCE P SEBASTICOOK R BEAN P LOST P ROWE P CLEARWATER P MOOSEHEAD L DEMO P RODERIQUE P INDIAN P (BIG) INDIAN STREAM INDIAN STREAM MOOSE R OTTER P OTTER P OTTER P (LITTLE) OTTER P (LITTLE) KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R HIGHT P HIGHT P KENNEBEC R EAST P BAKER P BAKER P KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R KENNEBEC R WENTWORTH P WENTWORTH P WENTWORTH P WENTWORTH P INDIAN P (LITTLE) KNIGHTS P DEAD RIVER DEAD RIVER DEAD RIVER DEAD RIVER SHAW P (LOWER) SPRING L SPRING L SPRING L SPRING L SPRING L BILL MORRIS P BRASSUA L LONG P WEST OUTLET (MOOSEHEAD L) WEST OUTLET (MOOSEHEAD L) WEST OUTLET (MOOSEHEAD L) WEST OUTLET (MOOSEHEAD L) WEST OUTLET (MOOSEHEAD L) WEST OUTLET (MOOSEHEAD L) LONG (MARTIN) P MOSQUITO P MOXIE P MOXIE P FISH P LUTHER P BAKER P

SPECIES BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT RAINBOW TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

QTY 2200 223 461 575 425 400 1000 1000 750 750 300 500 300 100 100 1000 2700 650 1750 75 450 250 900 750 1000 750 1000 120 1500 3800 450 500 200 300 50 375 100 100 100 500 1000 825 300 100 100 2000 800 100 100 750 200 500 1000 400 300 600 30 1250 450 100 1500 350 100 150 1500 350 150 100 55 500 500 1800 400 200 500 600 600 400 400 3000 500 2500 3050 1500 750

SIZE (IN.) 13 13 13 7 7 10 10 13 7 7 9 8 10 13 13 8 10 7 7 9 9 6 8 10 7 7 10 7 8 7 7 13 10 9 8 7 8 7 8 10 10 13 7 10 9 9 11 12 13 9 10 13 13 9 13 13 17 7 10 8 9 13 11 13 9 13 11 13 16 7 8 10 10 10 8 10 10 13 10 7 10 10 7 7 10

DATE 10/29/2018 11/2/2018 11/6/2018 10/22/2018 10/1/2018 5/30/2018 5/24/2018 10/11/2018 10/4/2018 10/4/2018 5/2/2018 5/10/2018 6/1/2018 10/11/2018 10/12/2018 5/10/2018 5/10/2018 10/1/2018 10/3/2018 5/29/2018 5/29/2018 10/3/2018 5/29/2018 5/15/2018 10/4/2018 10/4/2018 5/17/2018 10/1/2018 5/24/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 11/2/2018 5/1/2018 5/1/2018 5/11/2018 10/1/2018 10/10/2018 10/1/2018 10/10/2018 5/16/2018 5/16/2018 9/27/2018 10/5/2018 4/19/2018 5/4/2018 5/24/2018 10/2/2018 10/9/2018 10/22/2018 5/22/2018 6/25/2018 10/3/2018 10/12/2018 5/7/2018 10/10/2018 10/17/2018 10/29/2018 10/22/2018 5/23/2018 6/8/2018 6/13/2018 10/18/2018 10/30/2018 11/1/2018 6/13/2018 10/18/2018 10/30/2018 11/1/2018 11/9/2018 10/4/2018 5/11/2018 5/21/2018 5/3/2018 5/11/2018 5/11/2018 5/21/2018 5/24/2018 9/27/2018 5/10/2018 10/3/2018 5/23/2018 5/31/2018 10/1/2018 10/1/2018 5/30/2018

BELFAST BROOKS BROOKS BROOKS BROOKS BURNHAM KNOX KNOX KNOX KNOX KNOX KNOX KNOX LIBERTY

GOOSE RIVER SANBORN P SANBORN P SANBORN P SANBORN P SEBASTICOOK R DUTTON P DUTTON P DUTTON P DUTTON P DUTTON P DUTTON P MIXER P SAINT GEORGE L

BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

200 250 200 100 50 250 100 350 200 50 18 50 150 700

10 10 13 12 19 10 10 7 13 12 18 19 10 10

5/3/2018 5/1/2018 11/15/2018 11/15/2018 12/4/2018 5/14/2018 5/1/2018 11/15/2018 11/15/2018 11/15/2018 11/21/2018 12/4/2018 5/1/2018 4/26/2018

WALDO COUNTY

CITY/TOWN LIBERTY LIBERTY LINCOLNVILLE LINCOLNVILLE LINCOLNVILLE LINCOLNVILLE LINCOLNVILLE LINCOLNVILLE LINCOLNVILLE LINCOLNVILLE PALERMO PALERMO PALERMO PROSPECT PROSPECT PROSPECT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SEARSMONT SWANVILLE SWANVILLE SWANVILLE SWANVILLE UNITY

WATER SAINT GEORGE L SAINT GEORGE L MEGUNTICOOK L MEGUNTICOOK L MEGUNTICOOK L MOODY P MOODY P NORTON P NORTON P NORTON P BOWLER (BELTON) P SHEEPSCOT P SHEEPSCOT P HALFMOON P HALFMOON P HALFMOON P LEVENSELLER P LEVENSELLER P LEVENSELLER P LEVENSELLER P QUANTABACOOK L SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R SAINT GEORGE R GOOSE RIVER SWAN L SWAN L SWAN L SANDY STREAM

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QTY 1000 2000 200 1000 200 250 200 250 100 50 400 500 500 300 350 18 100 400 200 18 450 60 900 275 100 400 500 300 500 700

SIZE (IN.) 7 8 12 13 13 8 13 13 12 19 10 10 13 10 13 18 10 8 13 18 13 19 10 10 12 10 10 7 13 10

DATE 6/4/2018 10/31/2018 10/31/2018 10/31/2018 11/6/2018 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 10/31/2018 10/31/2018 12/4/2018 5/1/2018 4/26/2018 11/1/2018 5/3/2018 11/7/2018 11/21/2018 4/24/2018 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 11/21/2018 10/31/2018 4/12/2018 5/10/2018 5/24/2018 10/30/2018 5/3/2018 5/3/2018 6/4/2018 11/7/2018 5/8/2018

ALEXANDER BAILEYVILLE BEDDINGTON BEDDINGTON BEDDINGTON BEDDINGTON CALAIS CALAIS CALAIS CALAIS CALAIS CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE CHERRYFIELD CHERRYFIELD CHERRYFIELD COLUMBIA COLUMBIA COLUMBIA COOPER COOPER CUTLER CUTLER DANFORTH DANFORTH DANFORTH DANFORTH DANFORTH DEBLOIS DEBLOIS DEBLOIS DEBLOIS DEBLOIS DEBLOIS DEBLOIS DEBLOIS DEVEREAUX TWP DEVEREAUX TWP EAST MACHIAS EDMUNDS TWP EDMUNDS TWP FOREST CITY TWP FOREST CITY TWP GRAND LAKE STREAM P GRAND LAKE STREAM P GRAND LAKE STREAM P GRAND LAKE STREAM P GRAND LAKE STREAM P KOSSUTH TWP KOSSUTH TWP LAMBERT LAKE TWP LAMBERT LAKE TWP MARION TWP MARSHFIELD MARSHFIELD MARSHFIELD MARSHFIELD NO 14 TWP - CATHANCE NORTHFIELD NORTHFIELD NORTHFIELD NORTHFIELD NORTHFIELD PERRY ROBBINSTON ROBBINSTON ROBBINSTON

PLEASANT L MEDDYBEMPS L PLEASANT RIVER L PLEASANT RIVER L PLEASANT RIVER L SOUTHWEST P CLARK B (MAGURREWOCK S) KEENE L KEENE L NASHS L NASHS L JAMES P LEDGE (BALD LEDGE) P PENNAMAQUAN L ROUND L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L SCHOODIC L MEYERS P (NORTH) MEYERS P (NORTH) MEYERS P (SOUTH) VINING L VINING L ACKLEY P NORSE P GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST) GRAND L (EAST) GREENLAND P (LITTLE) FOXHOLE P FOXHOLE P FOXHOLE P MIC-MAC P MIC-MAC P PINEO P PINEO P SPECTACLE P (EAST) MOPANG L MOPANG L GARDNER L COBSCOOK BAY STATE PARK P COBSCOOK BAY STATE PARK P SPEDNIC L TOMAH L BIG L GRAND LAKE STREAM GRAND LAKE STREAM GRAND LAKE STREAM CANAL GRAND LAKE STREAM CANAL PLEASANT L PLEASANT L LAMBERT L LAMBERT L LONG L MIDDLE R SIX MILE L SIX MILE L SIX MILE L CATHANCE L BOG L BOG L BOG L PEAKED MOUNTAIN P PEAKED MOUNTAIN P BOYDEN L GOULDING L GOULDING L MONEYMAKER L

L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON SPLAKE SPLAKE SPLAKE SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT SPLAKE SPLAKE L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

175 600 550 150 100 125 150 150 4000 450 400 1250 675 1200 525 800 275 400 150 300 100 850 50 400 350 1000 1000 2375 800 300 150 50 250 1000 75 50 150 500 500 300 1500 400 100 2000 500 1500 400 2100 200 200 700 1000 350 1000 200 450 300 60 1950 1000 600 300 25 550 50 400 50 1100 50

8 8 10 10 13 13 10 13 7 8 13 7 7 12 12 10 8 13 10 7 10 7 13 7 7 11 11 8 13 11 10 13 7 7 13 13 7 7 13 14 8 10 11 8 7 8 11 11 11 11 8 11 8 7 10 10 11 13 7 8 13 14 18 10 13 14 13 7 13

5/9/2018 5/9/2018 5/11/2018 5/14/2018 10/18/2018 10/18/2018 4/26/2018 10/11/2018 10/16/2018 5/9/2018 10/11/2018 10/6/2018 10/6/2018 10/2/2018 10/2/2018 5/3/2018 5/10/2018 10/10/2018 5/3/2018 10/24/2018 5/3/2018 10/6/2018 10/11/2018 10/6/2018 10/6/2018 5/8/2018 5/16/2018 5/16/2018 10/9/2018 5/24/2018 4/26/2018 10/19/2018 10/19/2018 10/15/2018 10/19/2018 10/24/2018 10/24/2018 10/24/2018 10/15/2018 10/16/2018 5/9/2018 4/26/2018 6/7/2018 5/22/2018 10/1/2018 5/1/2018 5/17/2018 6/14/2018 5/1/2018 5/25/2018 5/17/2018 5/30/2018 5/17/2018 10/11/2018 5/23/2018 5/3/2018 5/1/2018 10/10/2018 10/10/2018 5/9/2018 10/11/2018 10/16/2018 11/14/2018 5/14/2018 10/18/2018 10/17/2018 10/11/2018 10/16/2018 10/16/2018

WASHINGTON COUNTY

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WATER MONEYMAKER L SHATTUCK L SIMPSON P SIMPSON P PIKE BROOK P (EAST) PIKE BROOK P (WEST) PIKE BROOK P (WEST) LOVE L MONTEGAIL P MONTEGAIL P HOSEA PUG L PEEP L SALMON P SALMON P BERRYPATCH P SECOND L (OLD STREAM) MONROE L MONROE P (EAST) MONROE P (WEST) GRAND L (WEST) POCUMCUS L PORK BARREL L FARROW L MUSQUASH L (EAST) MUSQUASH L (EAST) LILY L LILY L SPEDNIC L INDIAN L INDIAN L INDIAN L INDIAN L

SPECIES BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT SPLAKE BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT

QTY 600 125 300 50 475 75 1200 200 2500 175 150 1300 400 50 150 350 3150 1000 500 10000 800 500 1000 1000 350 150 1100 1500 600 6000 200 25

SIZE (IN.) 7 11 11 12 7 13 7 14 7 13 10 7 7 13 7 10 7 7 7 8 8 7 10 11 8 10 7 8 10 7 13 18

DATE 10/16/2018 6/7/2018 5/1/2018 10/10/2018 10/24/2018 10/19/2018 10/24/2018 10/17/2018 10/15/2018 10/17/2018 5/9/2018 10/25/2018 11/7/2018 11/7/2018 10/17/2018 5/9/2018 9/25/2018 10/6/2018 9/25/2018 5/24/2018 5/24/2018 10/15/2018 4/30/2018 5/2/2018 5/17/2018 4/26/2018 10/17/2018 5/22/2018 4/26/2018 9/26/2018 10/11/2018 11/14/2018

ACTON ACTON ACTON ACTON ACTON ACTON ACTON ACTON ACTON ACTON BERWICK BERWICK BERWICK BERWICK BERWICK BERWICK BERWICK BIDDEFORD BIDDEFORD BIDDEFORD BIDDEFORD BUXTON BUXTON BUXTON BUXTON BUXTON DAYTON DAYTON DAYTON DAYTON DAYTON DAYTON DAYTON DAYTON ELIOT ELIOT HOLLIS HOLLIS HOLLIS HOLLIS HOLLIS HOLLIS HOLLIS KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNK KENNEBUNKPORT KENNEBUNKPORT KITTERY LEBANON LEBANON LEBANON LEBANON LEBANON LIMERICK LIMERICK LIMERICK LIMERICK LIMERICK

MOOSE P MOUSAM L MOUSAM L MOUSAM L MOUSAM L SQUARE P WILSON L WILSON L WILSON L WILSON L KEAY B LITTLE R LITTLE R LITTLE R MATHEW'S MILL P WORSTER B WORSTER B THACHER B WILCOX P WILCOX P WILCOX P LITTLE R SACO R SACO R SACO R SACO R COOKS B COOKS B SACO R SACO R SACO R SACO R SWAN POND B SWAN POND B YORK P YORK R DEER P DEER P DEER P DEER P DEER P TOWN OFFICE (MEMORIAL) P TOWN OFFICE (MEMORIAL) P ALEWIFE P KENNEBUNK R KENNEBUNK R KENNEBUNK R MOUSAM R MOUSAM R MOUSAM R MOUSAM R MOUSAM R WARD B WARD B BATSON R GOFF MILL B KITTERY CLUB P GREAT B GREAT B LITTLE R LITTLE R LITTLE R BROWN B LEAVITT B LEAVITT B OSSIPEE R (LITTLE) OSSIPEE R (LITTLE)

BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT L.L. SALMON BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT BROWN TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROOK TROUT BROWN TROUT

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Fooling Newly Stocked Trout Requires Different Tactics For me, April means ordering my garden seeds from New Gloucester’s Pine Tree Garden Seeds so I can plant my peas and spinach as early as possible; and rigging up my fly rods so I am ready as soon as the local rivers clear and warm up a bit.

Just as cold, damp weather limits Maine gardening in April (can’t put in warm-weather plants like tomatoes for another month), those weather conditions also restrict stream or river trout fishing. Most of the wild trout streams in central or northern Maine are high, cold, or still frozen. Fortunately, early stockings by the state provide late-April opportunities, because I am anxious to get out fishing after a long winter.

Stockers’ Behavior But freshly-stocked trout act differently from the wild fish I most often pursue. That isn’t surprising, given that wild trout have spent their lives learning how to forage available food sources, while stocked fish sharing concrete pens with hundreds of their hatchery mates fight for pellets.

Although I usually figure out a way to catch a few wild trout on almost every outing, I get skunked by newly-stocked fish that don’t recognize what I am tossing at them and just don’t behave like wild trout.

Over the years, I learned that you must fly fish moving water for stockers differently.

Lou’s Observations Here are five observations to keep in mind: 1. Stocked fish are raised together in large

Bringing to hand a newly-stocked brook trout. In the author’s opinion, the quality of stocked trout from the State of Maine has improved over the last 20 years. Lou Zambello photo

numbers, and when put into rivers and streams, they tend to stay schooled up, often right where they are stocked, but sometimes moving en masse to other locations.

For success, it is imperative you keep moving until you find a school. Last year in a small Cumberland County stream, one brook-trout school hung out right where the stocking truck dumped them, but the next quarter-mile section downstream seemed to hold nothing.

I almost quit fishing, but decided to fish one more pool, and that one held a school of stockers that bent my rod for the next half hour.

2. Stocked trout sometimes only strike when other fish in their school become active. Often, a school will be on the bottom resting, but hook one fish, and they all get aggressive. Life in the hatchery has taught them that when other

fish suddenly start rising, they are being fed. Sometimes, if a nearby angler casting a worm hooks a fish, I will start hooking trout with a fly, because the struggling fish wakes up the school. An old trick for encouraging fresh stockers to eat is to take a handful of small pebbles and skip them along the surface (not that I do that!).

3. Since it can be difficult to get newly-stocked fish to rise off the bottom, make sure you place your offering down in the water column. I am not saying they won’t take flies on the surface, but fishing close to the bottom increases your odds. I have fished small rivers, retrieving streamers two feet under the surface, and caught nothing. Adding a split shot and sinking the streamer one foot deeper has then brought steady action.

4. In general-law rivers and streams, easy-to-

reach pools free of snags and streamside brush see a lot of pressure from worm and lure anglers, and can be quickly fished out. As a fly angler, it makes sense for you to try less obvious spots and areas where fishing with flies is easier than worms.

Try faster currents, skinnier water, pools with bottom snags, or water where fly-rod casting is easier than spinning rod casting. You will find less-pressured fish.

5. Often, stockers won’t recognize imitative food sources. They have never seen a caddis nymph, an emerging midge, or a March Brown dun, so why would they try to eat it? Attractor fly patterns are more effective because fish seem to take them on instinct.

Such flies include Woolly Buggers in black, green, chartreuse, and purple tied with some flashy materials, and perhaps a bright or iridescent bead head. Some fly shops sell Crystal Buggers tied with a sparkling (Estaz) chenille body. Other attractor fly patterns include bright pink or orange egg patterns with a bit of sparkle.

Wood Special In my experience, one of the best searching patterns for stockers is the Wood Special.

I write about the Wood Special pattern often in my books and columns because it seems to be effective in so many situations. The Wood Special is a streamer/wet fly that has a pinkish/orange chenille body with a mallard wing, a golden-pheasant fiber tail, and a webby neck hackle. This fly has a bit of buoyancy because of the chenille, so many anglers tie it with a tungsten bead head or fish it with a sinking leader or sink-tip line. It is most effective retrieved closer to the bottom.

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Ticket to Early Spring Trolling Success? Slow and Easy April has arrived, and at long last we can get back on the water and go trout fishing. But given that water remains just a few degrees above freezing, we need to adopt a slow-and-easy approach.

Many lakes and ponds see open water by late April. However, trout remain lethargic due to cold temperatures. That means in order to induce a strike, we need to put our baits and lures as close to the fish as possible. Also, the slower the better, since trout are not yet disposed to fast bursts of speed in order to nab a bait. All the same, they will bite, but not quite as eagerly as they will later in May when water temperatures warm and stimulate their metabolism.

Also – except in the case of trolling for salmon, which always strike with a vengeance despite

trout there seldom bite, at least not in April. Instead, head toward shore.

Better yet, head for shore on the sunny side of the lake, since the south side always warms earlier and that slightly warmer water draws trout.

The salmon on the end of the line took a trolled streamer fly fished at a fast speed. Tom Seymour photo

super-frigid water – putting our rod in a rodholder diminishes our chances of getting a solid hookup. This is especially true when using artificials.

In April, holding the rod in your hand ups your chances of success.

A great deal of the

time, at least during warmer conditions, trout striking artificial lures often manage to hook themselves (we still need to set the hook, though, since a self-hooked trout may easily throw the hook). But now, in April, it is of the utmost importance that we strike and strike hard at the first sign of a bite. If we hesitate in the slightest, our fish probably won’t get hooked. We can’t set the hook, though, if our rod is in a holder when a trout bites.

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going despite wind, rain and generally unpleasant conditions. Indeed, I have taken 4-pound brown trout while ice still lined coves on the shady side of the lake.

In addition to going slow and keeping our baits and lures near bottom, we also need to use bright, attractor-style lures. In years past, my favorite early season lures were an orangeand-gold Flash King, and an all-orange Mooselook Wobbler. Flash Kings are no longer available, but Mooselook Wobblers are. Also, Maine-made Carlson spoons come in various configurations of orange.

I have fished these bright-orange wobblers next to streamer flies and without fail, at least in April and very early May, orange always elicits more bites. So now we have two important rules to remember when fishing in April. These are, 1) always hold your rod by hand; and 2) use some form of bright orange for lures.

Next, don’t fish in deep water, because

Stocked Fish While my suggestions thus far have concerned fish that have lived in a pond or lake for several years, freshly-stocked trout also become available in April. Many streams and small rivers see the first stockings of the year in April.

By and large, these fish remain near the point of introduction for a week or so before spreading out. I have stood on one spot on a favorite river and caught and released upwards of 40 trout.

Sure, these were fresh from the hatchery, but in April, after a long winter of no open-water fishing, fresh-stocked trout fill an important need. So to paraphrase Crosby, Stills & Nash, “If you’re not catching the trout you love, love the trout you’re catching.”

Besides that, stocked trout fight just as hard as any other trout. Also, stocked trout of today are just as pretty as any other trout. As a friend once said, “Stocked or not, they are still trout.”

And that sentiment has stuck with me. A 1-pound freshly-stocked trout puts the same bend in the rod as a 1-pound trout that has lived in the lake for a year. In April, trout are trout and they are all worth pursuing.

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ies can easily weigh 1 pound or more. This especially pertains to brown trout, a great number of which will have reached 12 – 14 inches in length when released into the wild. A 14-inch brown trout, stocked or not, is a handful on a light rod.

And for those who kill the occasional fish for the table, these stocked browns taste good, with sweet, yellowish flesh.

Suggested Lures In addition to the orange lures suggested for early season fishing, certain species have their

favorites as well. Sometimes this makes no sense to us, but that should not make much difference, because it certainly does matter to the trout.

My best luck by far on rainbow trout comes when using a Mooselook Wobbler Junior with a silver front and copper back. These I fish close to rocky shores, trolling at a snail’s pace, and always bouncing bottom.

Rainbow trout fall all over themselves for these lures fished in this manner.

Brown trout, as noted, like lots of orange. But they also go for yellow

and for that, my favorite offering is a Williams Wabler in yellow with red diamonds. This pattern sometimes outfishes all other lures in my tackle box. So if somehow brown trout don’t respond to orange, switch gears and give then yellow. It often makes a big difference.

Brook trout, too, go all-out for yellow. The same Williams Wabler that kills brown trout also works splendidly on brookies.

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Falls to Remember Winter, spring, summer, fall. Of all the seasons, my memory is plump full of falls.

Falls come and go, and most of us who challenge the outdoors have a special fall they remember.

My right palm triggers a memory of a special fall to me. The scar is still with me.

The fall happened long ago. At the ripe old age of 12, I was fireman-carrying my buddy Island Boy down the stairs of the stoop of my house.

I tripped, falling forward, dropping Mike to the gravel, and breaking my fall with my right hand. The anchor bolt for the railing pierced my skin, guaranteeing a memory for years to come.

Non-Slip Slip A recent fall comes to mind. The wife purchased non-slip rubber mats for the entry way on the garage floor.

As we were headed out to work – her in front; me trailing behind – my foot caught the edge of the mat, hurling me to the floor.

I executed a perfect 4-point landing, with

While my anonymous friend – Mike – was creeping along the icy path to the outhouse, his feet suddenly shot out from under him, causing him to go airborne before crashing sideways into the deep snow. When he re-entered the camp, he looked for all the world like a limping, abominable snowman. both hands and both knees landing at the exact time. I scored a 9.5 on the Olympic scale. The wife was impressed with my landing, but more impressed with the fact I didn’t rip my pants.

Jim’s Face-Plant Son #2 and I share a memory of another fall.

It occurred a couple of years ago at deer hunting camp.

The previous Christmas, he had received an orange backpack for his hunting adventures. Because he’s a jar-head “always prepared” kind-ofguy, his pack was filled with enough equipment and food to survive an Arctic winter.

I had returned to

camp for lunch. Sitting in my easy chair, I heard footsteps on the 4-stair rise into camp.

Jim mastered the first three steps. The fourth is where it became interesting.

Tripping over the fourth step, Jim faceplanted into camp. His backpack hit the door sill, and as he catapulted through the door, the backpack’s contents showered across the camp floor It was, for both of us, a cherished fall to remember.

Wet Blow-Down Pratfall A special fall burnt in my memory banks occurred on a moose hunt several years ago.

My buddy Scott felled a nice bull on opening morning. It was a couple hundred yards off the road.

I grabbed my chainsaw to cut some blowdowns to ease getting the big critter to the road.

George, another hunting buddy, walked alongside of me, cautioning me about falling with every step I took.

Halfway to the moose, George slipped on a wet blowdown. His feet shot skyward and he flopped over on his back. He resembled a big old snapping turtle that had flipped on its back.

Fortunately, I got to witness the entire episode.

I thanked George profusely for telling me to be careful.

Abominable Snowman Sometimes falls even happen in a different sea-

son.

A couple winters ago, a friend – who wishes to remain anonymous – snowmobiled into camp with me. I was in camp, opening it up and firing up the wood stove.

Mike ventured out to open up the privy. As he was trudging along, he observed the scattering of snow simply covering a layer of glare ice. He made a mental note to tell me of the treacherous conditions. Mid-thought, his feet shot out from under him, causing him to go airborne before crashing sideways into the deep snow.

When he re-entered the camp, he looked for all the world like a limping, abominable snowman.

I thanked him for thinking of me, but wish I had witnessed his tumble. It must have scored a perfect 10 points, judging the amount of snow covering him head to foot.

The wife asked me why men laugh when their buddies fall. I told her, “You just hafta be there to see the hilarity in it.”

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Muddling Through Mud Season Fishing boats are being launched, green grass and emerald leaves are sprouting forth and rounds of skeet and trap are being enjoyed on warm dry fields – in Central and Southern Maine, perhaps, but not here!

Up in the Crown of Maine, the great outdoors of Aroostook County, we continue to slog through snow and mud.

Ice abounds on lakes and ponds, the few brooks and streams unshackled run brown as they wildly attempt to escape their banks.

After a winter that began with a November 5th snow storm that sent all waterfowl winging south, we are still a month away from our version of spring.

In my memory, it’s been over 20 years since we have endured three major snow storms before Thanksgiving. It’s been an early-arriving, long-enduring, record-breaking snow fall winter, and sportsmen are grasping for any and every harbinger of spring in and around The County.

State of Maine Sportsman’s Show For many of us suffering cabin fever, one sure sign of spring arrives in the form of several sportsmen shows and boat shows in March and April.

The largest and most diverse is our very own State of Maine Sportsmen Show at the Augusta Civic Center, March 29 – 31. This extravaganza offers entertainment and learning opportunities for young and old outdoorsmen. Despite it being a

As soon as the Fish River clears of ice, some anglers head to the confluence with the St. John, midway along Fort Kent’s Main Street and not far from the famous blockhouse from which the town garners its name. This stretch features eddies, backwaters and large rocks that shelter fish. Select a stable canoe of 18-20 feet, or a 14-16 foot deep-V boat, to ensure comfort and safety on the river.

April open water in Aroostook County is scarce and fishing challenging. However, it’s possible for determined anglers to catch their first trout of the year from pothole on a handful of streams. All photos: Bill Graves

long trek from Aroostook, having a chance to interact one on one with my readers is worth every

mile.

I hope old friends will stop by and visit our Maine Sportsmen booth,

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and certainly would enjoy talking to new readers as well. Between shifts, I wander about the other

exhibitors’ booths, and visit displays and demos outside the main floor.

It all gives me hope for spring, and it all starts three days away from mud season up north.

Come by and see us Friday, Saturday and Sunday – the last three days of March – at the Augusta Civic Center.

Exchange ideas, tell tall tales, renew your subscription and enjoy the first vestiges of spring, especially if you’re from the County.

Presque Isle Show Being the lifelong County boy I am, I’d be remiss not mentioning the Presque Isle Sportsmen’s Show, taking pace March 23rd & 24th in Gentile Hall gym at the University of Maine at Presque Isle campus.

A new addition this year will be a public forum and discussion at 6 p.m. on Friday evening in Wieden Auditorium, called “Managing Whitetail in Northern Maine.”

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Representatives from Sportsman Alliance of Maine, Department of Fisheries &Wildlife, Aroostook County Conservation Association and P.I. Fish & Game board members will be on hand to moderate the discussion and answer questions.

Don’t forget to bring the youngsters to the show, there will be giveaways, shooting games and a well-stocked trout pond sponsored by L.L. Bean and the Aroostook Mic Mac fish hatchery.

Fly tying demos and lessons will be offered each day and concessions will also be available.

Fish River Even when Aroostook

County enjoys an early spring, only flowing waterways shed their ice in April, and even then fishable pools are a scarce commodity. High, fast freshet conditions are not only dangerous to operate a boat, but make fishing conditions precarious.

One possible option, very dependent on Mother Nature this month, is the Fish River in Fort Kent. This stream will be clear of ice sometime in April, and a few spots offer trolling and shoreline casting opportunities as the water levels recede.

The Soldier Pond area is a popular early season spot for shoreline bait and lure casters as soon as there’s open water.

Mike Wallace of Freeport visits The County early and often to cast and troll streams and small ponds that clear of ice in April. Soldier Pond is actually just a wide spot on Fish River, but it’s an early season hot spot.

Usually trolling this wide spot in the river becomes possible within a week of ice out. There can be very good trout and salmon action, but there’s also a fair amount of pressure due to so few fishing spots nearby. I’d avoid weekends if possible, and recommend a stable 14to 16-foot deep V boat for comfort.

Another mid to late April trolling run lies just above the old Fort Kent Mills Bridge, now closed to traffic. There are several small islands, ledges, and large boulders where fish school up during high water. Slowly motoring a lure or plug among the structure often produces action. A very convenient launch site is located a few hundred yards upstream along Market

Bill Graves travels across the border into Canada to take advantage of excellent and inexpensive spring Atlantic salmon fishing. Brutes like this one keep him going back.

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Confluence with St. John A third Fish River

Pete Dube, owner of the Restigouche Hotel and friend of the writer, grabs the leader of a hefty spring salmon to bring it boatside for a quick release. Note the heavy, layer clothing necessary for April angling up North.

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Lee Shaw of Nashville, Tennessee, travels back home to Maine to join his Dad and friends for a April outing to the Restigouche River. Hefty fish like the one he’s about to release make the many miles worthwhile.

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Roger Shaw of Mars Hill pauses for a quick memory photo of a great spring outing for black salmon on the Restigouche River. Shaw boated and released over half-dozen big fish this outing.

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along Fort Kent’s Main Street not far from the famous blockhouse from which the town garners its name. There are eddies, backwaters and large rocks for those who prefer to cast rather than troll, and once again a stable canoe of 18-20 feet or sturdy boat offer comfort and safety.

Brook trout and salmon are still caught throughout this urban stretch of the St. John, but smallmouth bass are far more plentiful. Skirted, single-blade spinner baits, shallow running crank baits and 4 or 5-inch Senko worms are sure bets for smallie action, with three-pound bronzebacks boated regularly. Anglers should be aware that musky are very prevalent in the St. John and most tributaries, so upgrade tackle and be prepared. Many a bass lure has disappeared, never to be seen again, in a huge swirl and toothy maw.

Sportsmen traveling north may use either Route 11 or 161 for the St. John in Fort Kent or the Fish River in Fort Kent Mills. The Fox Road from Route 161 and Soldier Pond Road from Rt. 11 will bring April anglers to Soldier Pond boat launch.

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Lee Shaw traveled from Nashville ,TN to join his father and friends for a cold but action-filled outing on Quebec’s Matapedia River.

an overview of this trio of early-season open water.

My two favorite trout and salmon baits are a size 7 fluorescent orange floating Rapala, and a red and white Rebel shallow-running plug.

Head to Canada for Atlantic Salmon Atlantic salmon fishing is one of the most challenging and rewarding endeavors for fly fishermen. Taken for granted

by Maine sportsmen 50 years ago, these silver leapers are now considered endangered, with no in-state options are available.

For most anglers who can travel to salmon rivers still open to fishing, the cost for outfitters, guides and private water permits are just too prohibitive during summer

salmon runs.

Thankfully, there is an option nearby that fits the pocket book and travel plans of New Englanders.

From mid-April and through the month of May, several New Brunswick and Quebec rivers are open to spring Atlantic salmon fishing, for Aroostook anglers it’s possible to be standing on the bank of the Renous, Miramichi, Restigouche, or Matapedia in less than two hours.

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Assessing the Herd and Eying Trophy Toms Believe it or not, April is one of my favorite months of the year. April brings warmer temperatures; it marks the end of winter; and for the most part, it allows me to assess how my local deer herd fared over winter.

Couple this with a quickly-disappearing snow pack, herds of deer feeding on new green growth and strutting/ gobbling Toms, and this is a month to embrace the outdoors and everything it has to offer.

While shed-hunting back in the spring of 1992, I walked up on a green field that was

From my observation point in the woods at the edge of a field, I’ve had very large adult bucks feed within feet of me each spring for the last 26 years. Watching these warriors feeding so close is a privilege. Thin bodies, scabbed ankles and voracious appetites are all signs these critters have successfully survived yet another tough Maine winter. strange to me. I’d been following winter deer trails for over an hour, when I noticed a clearing ahead. Fresh deer tracks led to the opening.

As I stepped from the thick spruce and fir cover, I was greeted by a feeding herd of deer, nearly 60 in total. Fortunately, the wind was in my favor, and none of the deer

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I sank back into the cover, lifted my binoculars, and began observing.

Deer Joined by Turkeys For nearly two hours, I watched as those deer fed voraciously on the greening grass and clover. Large, pregnant does, small yearling deer, medium-sized bucks and a few huge-bodied adult bucks all fed together in harmony.

No doubt they were hungry from the longer,

rainy winter. You read that correctly – my first Maine winter was rainy and icy. The deer herd seemed to have fared very well.

As I checked out each deer in the herd, looking for pedicle scars and sex organs in an effort to determine if I was watching a buck or doe, I heard a distant noise.

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begin scouting.

Because the field is adjacent to the deer yard I mentioned earlier, deer nearly always end up in it as soon as snow clears and the grass is exposed.

Sitting on the downwind side of that field, nearly a full mile from any main road, must give the deer confidence, because they nearly always throw caution to the wind when feeding there in the spring.

In fact, I’ve had very large adult bucks feed within feet of me each spring for the last 26 years. Watching these warriors feeding so close is a privilege. Thin bodies, scabbed ankles and a voracious appetite are all signs of these critters surviving yet another tough Maine winter.

to about five inches above her hooves. She was a very productive, and the wily mother of many fawns. I was pleased to see her each spring, and actually respected and even feared her presence in the woods each fall.

After seeing her three springs in a row, I knew she was the matriarch of one doe group, and that she held a leadership position over the entire herd. When she entered a field, every eye was on her and her fawns.

She was a Stomper Never did I see her lose a fawn in winter. If she made it through deer season with three fawns, they’d all be with her in spring.

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“Miss White Sox” was a productive, savvy and protective doe. Never did I see her lose a fawn in winter. If she made it through deer season with three fawns, they’d all be with her in spring. Stacy Bellanger photo

Maine Whitetails – Tough and Amazing I know I’d never survive the cold temperatures, deep snow and predators these animals must face each year.

It’s likely most humans would succumb to these conditions quickly if left with only warm clothes and no shelter.

Our state’s whitetails are tough and amazing.

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Want to Track That Trophy Buck?

First, Get In Shape

by Matt Breton

Hunting the Big Woods of northern New England usually means putting some miles on – the first few might be in the truck, but after that, it’s about wearing out boot leather.

A lot of people don’t think they can catch up to a buck. There was a time, more than a decade ago now, when I wondered if I ever would … let me explain.

We’d been hunting for nearly a week. On this particular day, after four hours of walking Dad and I finally cut a buck track.

Because we’d seen only a doe and lamb in that time, we got on the buck’s track, double teaming.

Dogging along behind, we followed that buck as he crossed two roads and then walked more than a quarter of a mile upstream in a brook where the only evidence of his passing was a drip on the occasional snow-covered rock.

When he finally left the little brook, he led us

As I pulled my way up the steep side of the mountain in pursuit of the buck, I realized that endurance is one of the most critical factors in becoming an effective tracker.

And as I jumped the buck and it bolted away, I began making the transition from someone who follows tracks, to someone who tracks bucks.

Backpack training at gradually longer distances and steeper terrain will get a tracker in shape for deer season.

through a swamp, and then up a steep ridge face.

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the bottom of that mountain, Dad decided to call it quits. The deep snow, the week of walking, and the long day of following the buck and sorting out his track, had both of us mentally and physically fatigued. It was pushing

2 p.m. and the truck was quite a few miles away, so it was decision-time for me.

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knowing enough to slow down when I saw that he’d pawed up the ground and fed on some ferns.

As I crested a small rise, there he was! I’ll never forget the way he looked at me and then spun away. I took two quick shots and then a third, missing cleanly with all three slugs as the big buck leapt through the forest.

In that moment, I made the transition from being someone who follows tracks, to someone who tracks bucks. The distinction is subtle, but important. If I was going to kill a buck, I had to be ready and willing to stay after him ... even when the track headed uphill near the end of a long day of tracking.

That off-season I decided I should be prepared, physically, to stay after a buck each and every day I took a track, for the entire season. It isn’t that successful tracking can’t be done in one day, or that there won’t be a short track job here and there. However, the law of averages suggests that over the long run, most of the time tracking bucks across northern New England will require many days and many miles.

Preparation Some people – hunting guides especially – have jobs that get them in the woods walking on a regular basis. For the rest of us, a little more focused effort is needed to be ready to get after a buck each November.

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does take time. Starting early in the year is best, so that the legs and lungs are conditioned.

First and foremost, a buck-tracker needs to attend to endurance. This can be done with regular walks, preferably in the woods and uphill, for an hour or more, starting three days a week and slowly building up to five days per week in the months leading up to the season.

Some light strength training helps prepare the body for heavy effort like a really hard uphill day, or dragging a buck out.

Good nutrition that keeps body weight manageable is important, along with flexibility work in the form of yoga

or stretching, will round out a routine that will keep a tracker in the woods all season, every season, for years to come.

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Hal Blood Adds His Thoughts After guiding literally hundreds of deer hunters over the years, I’ve come to realize the biggest downfall for most of them was not being in good enough shape. I used to tell my deer hunters to prepare as though they were going sheep hunting. Some of them took my recommendation seriously, but others

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in her movements. One whiff of human odor, and she’d turn around or move through with a wide buffer from the source.

She’d almost never snort. Instead, she was a stomper. She’d stand in one place, stomp for what seemed like an eternity and then move away, even if she never saw the

pooh-poohed it.

The ones that took being in shape seriously were more successful, not in that they all shot a buck, but that they were able to go where the bucks did and learn from them.

The ones that were not in shape, which I would always find out on the first day out, usually said they walked three to four miles a day, figuring that would do it.

Of course, those three to four miles were probably on a sidewalk or some other flat ground. Walking on flat terrain to get in shape for the big woods is an exercise in futility, as it does not build the necessary strength in your legs or wind in your lungs.

As I get older, I find

Missing a buck after a strenuous climb inspired the author, Matt Breton, to improve his physically stamina, which led to subsequent success with big deer like this one.

that it is a lot easier to stay in shape than to get in shape. That means that I keep my weight the same year-round, and I keep my legs and cardio system in shape. Anybody can do it – it just takes a little discipline.

source of the scent.

Does like her make hunting adult bucks very difficult. Her productivity, however, kept her off my hit list. I’m sure she trained her fawns well, and to me that’s more important than dealing with her shenanigans during deer season.

April energizes me. Sure, we can get snow in April, but it marks the end of winter. The temps warm, daylight is increasing

There is no downside to being in shape, as you will feel better and be healthier.

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fast, fields are greening, birds are singing and life comes back to the landscape.

Getting out to search for shed antlers, watching turkeys strut around and deer eating something green, brings a smile to my face.

Get out and enjoy the spring weather this month. Remember what our critters have endured to get here, and smile yourself.

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MAINE WILDLIFE QUIZ: Brook Trout by Steve Vose

A Maine native, the Eastern Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) also goes by several other nicknames, including Squaretail, Brookie and Speckled Trout.

Brook trout have long, streamlined bodies, with an adipose fin between the dorsal and square tailfin. The fish’s fins have a distinctive white leading edge.

Color is variable, depending on habitat, water quality and food sources. Specimens run from dark green to almost black, with wormlike markings called vermiculations, along the back.

During breeding season, male brook trout feature stunning bright orange-red sides.

Brook trout are not tolerant of warm-water temperatures, preferring a range be-

tween 57 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

During the height of the summer, brook trout will seek the shelter of rocks, logs, undercut banks and deep pools to escape the heat, moving to shallow waters only after sunset, to feed.

Brook trout are extremely sensitive to pollutants, and need cool, clear water to survive. Therefore, the overall health of a body of water is directly connected to the well-being of its brook-trout population.

Questions: 1. What are some nicknames of the Eastern Brook Trout?

2. What’s distinctive about a brook trout’s fins?

3. What are the wormlike markings on a brook trout’s back called?

4. What color are a male brook trout’s sides during mating season?

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With optimal conditions, brook trout inhabiting streams can live about 3 years, while those living in larger bodies of water, such as lakes and ponds, tend to live upwards of 5 to 6 years.

Brook trout typically spawn in September or October, with eggs hatching into fry within two to three months. After hatching, fry feed primarily on insects. As the fish grow and reach maturity, they feed on larger prey, including crayfish and even small rodents.

Maine anglers favor the brook trout as exquisite table fare. Every year, novice and expert alike pursue the delectable squaretail by means of the worm and bobber, Super-Duper, various flies and even live minnows through the ice.

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To escape summer heat, where to trout seek shelter underwater?

How long do brook trout typically live?

When do brook trout spawn?

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Sshh! I’m Fishing April Fools’ Day! I’m not sure why the State of Maine made April Fools’ Day the official first day of the open water fishing season. I can only speculate that some long-ago lawmaker with a sense of humor was poking fun at anglers who are willing to stand in near-frozen water with ice caked to their lines.

Finding open water to wet a line opening day in the Katahdin Region definitely falls into the category of a fool’s errand, at least when it comes to lakes and ponds. However, moving water has a

I thought I could improve on the classic Ballou Special, so I tied it in a variety of different colors. However, the only pattern that produced fish consistently was the original.

Once again, my attempt to reinvent the wheel proved an epic failure. tough time freezing, and die-hard anglers ignore difficult angling conditions as a trade-off for good fishing.

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One key to the entire process – a product called “Hot Hands” – really saved the day. These chemical packs, once opened, throw heat for up to 10 hours. But, they need some air.

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Then, over some standard insulated underwear, I put on some heavy cotton sweat pants that had a pocket over each thigh. In each pocket I dropped in one of the larger sized heat packs. A few more layers, and then on went my waders.

My LL Bean waders have a nice pocket in the bib section – perfect for another toasty heat pack.

I also had a set of gloves with a zippered compartment designed to handle a “Hot Hand” packet.

While the gloves worked well keeping my hands warm, I just can’t seem to work my fly rod with gloves on.

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et to the handle of their fishing rod – something I may try in the future.

West Branch Penobscot Nels Kramer, Regional Fisheries Biologist for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIF&W), once told me that the West Branch Penobscot was at the top of a list of excellent landlocked salmon waters in Katahdin Country.

That’s a great endorsement from a dedicated professional.

Like every other fisherman who has an expert’s ear, I try to find out what it takes to hookup with a football-sized silverside. According to Kramer, the DIF&W balances the forage population to the size and quantity of the salmonids in the river. Sounds like a tricky balancing act, so I’ll leave that equation to the experts.

So what’s that mean to an average Joe like me trying to entice a hungry salmon to grab the business end of my line?

Kramer tipped me off to the land-locked salmon’s favorite forage – smelt.

Well, I kind of knew that, but hearing it from someone who really knows based on scientific study, helps keep me focused and on course. I enjoy slinging streamers, so baitfish imitations – here I come!

My old standby, the Ballou Special, always gets the first cast. It was one of the first streamers to utilize marabou. Litchfield Maine’s own A.W. Ballou, after much experimentation, tied this fly in 1921.

I once tried tying this fly in an assortment of colors, figuring I could improve on a good thing.

After a couple of trips to the Moose River (between Moosehead Lake and Brassua Lake), the only one I could get to work with any consistency was the original pattern.

Sheldon’s attempt to reinvent the wheel resulted in an epic failure.

Of course, many traditional Maine flies have their own loyal following.

The Grey Ghost, Jerry’s Smelt and Black Nosed Dace all have long track records of producing early and often. Local fly shops do a good job with stocking many lesser-known local patterns that produce.

For years I’ve used a nine foot long six weight rod for slinging streamers. While on the above-mentioned Salmon River, I borrowed the guide’s 10-foot seven weight rod, and really liked it. I think the extra length and width gave me some extra distance, especially with the larger streamers.

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Early-season anglers religiously defy marginal weather to tangle with both silversides and brook trout at this productive, iconic location.

The Nesowadnehunk Deadwater, like its name suggests, has a large stretch of calm water with a set of rapids on each end. Anglers target both the tail water from the upper rapids and the headwater before it rolls through the lower rapids.

Most fishermen bring small boats, canoes, kayaks and drift boats for fishing this large eddy.

The Horserace Brook Cove camping area provides the most convenient access to the water.

For those looking to avoid the crowds associated with easy access, the Golden Road parallels the river for long stretches. It takes a little bushwhacking, or even snowshoeing during the early season, but reward of solitude awaits those who follow the road less traveled.

It says in Proverbs

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Steal Some Time to Bicycle in Acadia National Park I know you don’t have time for this.

April’s string of bright, warm days has turned our attention to the chores that need to be done before summer begins. We tell ourselves that we can relax then – maybe after Memorial Day. Meanwhile, we are running in place through some of the very best days of the outdoor year.

The garden needs attention. That painting project that got postponed last fall is waiting. Some of us still have October leaves under the snow that came and stayed that month. Your parents are counting on you to help with their yard work. Your kids have baseball games, track meets, spring concerts and music lessons peppered across the calendar.

Theft By Deception Sometimes we need to steal time from our own life. The temptation to grab a day or two that does not really belong to us becomes overwhelming.

Nobody will give us these days – they must be stolen; snatched from

Sometimes we need to steal time from our own life. The temptation to grab a day or two that does not really belong to us becomes overwhelming. Nobody will give us these days -- they must be stolen – snatched from the jaws of responsible parenthood and citizenship.

“Steal a day; just ride,” advises the author. All photos: Jim Andrews

the jaws of responsible parenthood, employment and citizenship.

These stolen days also cannot be earned –if we plan for them or schedule them ahead of time, they simply become one more thing on the long to-do list. And because they are somehow more expendable than other more responsible tasks – they inevitably get bumped from the schedule.

It’s bright outside and real warmth – not just reflected sunshine off snow, but real spring

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warmth – is here for the first time. It’s drying last fall’s leaves left on your lawn. It’s warming the soil in the raised beds of your untended garden.

Just Do It Go now – before you lose your nerve! Grab your kid from school – ignore the Vice-principal’s glare. Quickly...quickly!

Throw your bicycles and some random camping gear into the family pick-up. Drive fast for however long it takes to get to Bar Harbor.

Pull up to Blackwoods

Campground in Acadia National Park, and pay the nice ranger $30 to camp and $15 for a park pass. You won’t need a reservation – most responsible campers are home raking their lawns.

Drive to your campsite – but unload only the bikes. Unless it’s pitch dark, the thievery begins now!

Acadia Loop Road The 20-mile loop auto road in Acadia is rightfully world-famous. A month from now it will be clogged with slow-moving, rub-

Preparing for the ride. Nobody’s in biking shape this early in the year, but the trick is just to get out there and ride.

ber-necking tourists. Two months from now the tide of humanity that sweeps northward every summer will inundate Mount Desert Island. Three and a half million visitors will visit the auto road, the carriage trails and the hiking paths this year.

But not today.

Today – and for a short time only (usually until April 14th) – the gates are closed, and no cars are allowed on the road.

The road system across Maine is an abomination for April cyclists after a long winter. Frost heaves and chunks of upturned pavement litter every byway. In some parts of the state, dirty snowbanks still crowd the road edges. Everywhere else there is sand, salt and trash lining the edge of every paved road.

But inside Acadia, the pavement is pristine – federal-money-impeccably-maintained-pristine.

The road is closed to winter maintenance. No salt or sand is ever spread on its smooth surface. No snowplow ever cuts its edges.

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The pavement in Acadia is pristine this time of year. No sand, salt or pavement damaged by plows, since the roads have been closed all winter.

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What Does Hal Blood Drive in the Woods?

This month’s Off Road Traveler column features another of our Maine Sportsman contributors, Hal Blood. Hal’s “Big Woods Bucks” organization provides a monthly column, Big Woods World, which takes our readers into the realm of the deep woods where many folks have never traveled.

This month, readers learn Hal’s personal preference for a vehicle, as well as the accessories that help him in and out of the remote sections of the territory he hunts.

I’ve hunted with Hal, and let me tell you ... nobody

By the early 1990s, my old Dodge short bed pickup was pretty rusted out, so I purchased a 1984 Ramcharger.

From the pickup I removed the engine (including the high-performance cam, the Edelbrock intake, the Holley 450 four-barrel carburetor and a set of headers) as well as the differentials, lift-kit, tires, and bumper, and installed them all on the Ramcharger. I had my new hunting rig! wants to be caught unprepared in some of the wild places Hal travels.

Hal Blood embodies the true spirit of the traditional Maine woodsman. He gets the job done under his own power, and uses his own highly-tuned common sensibility to figure things out.

He built his own outfit-

ting business from the ground up, constructing several log camps and a lodge in Jackman, then sold it after running a successful outfitting business for over two decades.

He then constructed his own log home, and just recently announced he’s restarting his guide service as “Big Woods Out-

fitters” (bigwoodsbucks. com).

Anyone who has traveled the big woods for very long understands the importance of being able to take care of yourself in remote situations. Sometimes there isn’t anyone around to help out. When a problem arises in the middle of nowhere, a re-

mote traveler must know how to handle it.

After reading Hal’s information below, it’s easy to understand that someone who can take an engine out of one vehicle and put it in another can confidently travel to remote parts of the big woods knowing they can get themselves, and others, to and from hunting locations safely and securely. He’s been doing it for years.

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a Dodge since I purchased my first short bed pickup in 1977. At that time, lift kits were just coming about, and I had to have one to get the truck high enough for tires bigger than the 10x31s that came on that first truck.

I also felt a little boost in power would help turn those new 14x36 tires, so I installed a high-performance cam, an Edelbrock intake, a Holley 450 four-barrel carburetor and a set of headers.

A few years later, I replaced the 3:56 gears with a set of 3:96s as well as a posi-traction rear end. A couple of years after that, I found out that in 1968 and 1969, the 318cc motor came stock with 230hp instead of the usual 170hp.

So I bought one of those old motors and rebuilt it, using the cam, intake, and carburetor for my original engine. Now the engine was pushing 300hp.

About the same time, I built a channel steel bumper for the front, and installed a winch. There was almost nowhere that I couldn’t go with that rig.

Time to Replace the Short Bed By the early 1990s,

that old truck was pretty rusted out, and I replaced it with a 1984 Ramcharger. I felt the Ramcharger would be a better rig for guiding hunters as well as keeping all my gear under cover. I would also be able to use all the parts on the old pick-up on the Ramcharger.

I put the engine, differentials, lift-kit, tires, and bumper on that Ramcharger, and I had my new hunting rig.

I ran that rig for about fifteen years before it rusted out beyond repair. It was time to find another Ramcharger, so I went on Craigslist and found a 1982 model that had come from Arizona, so it had no rust.

I bought it for $1,500 and went about stripping the old Ram and building a new one. It was a big project, but well worth the effort. I used all my old parts on the new one, with the exception that I bought a new liftkit and tires. This time I went with 12x35 Super Swampers.

I’ve been running this new woods rig for eight years, and plan on running it as long as I’m able to get into the woods.

Although I have a newer Power Wagon,

Hal gives this nice buck a ride back to the game pole in his Big Woods Bucks Dodge Ramcharger. Photos courtesy of Big Woods Bucks

which is a good all-around vehicle, the Ramcharger is still my go-to rig for any rough going in the woods.

The older Ramchargers were fairly light vehicles with a great turning radius, and putting big tires on them enables the operator to drive through mud without sinking in.

The big tires also give me 12 inches of clearance to the bottom of the differentials. The 4-inch lift gives me around three feet of clearance to the bumpers.

The positive rear-end allows me to go in twowheel-drive where most vehicles need four-wheeldrive. The winch, which I seldom have to use, is a good insurance policy when I’m traveling alone.

The beauty of any old rigs is that they are easy to work on, even in the

Hal and his Ramcharger tuned for traveling the big woods with confidence.

field. If the engines get fuel and spark, they will run. There are no computers to shut things down.

I carry with me a spare voltage regulator, coil, ballast resistor, starter relay and of course a tool box at all times. I have used these rigs for hunting, fishing and guiding for long enough to know

that I’m not going to be stranded unless something major happens mechanically.

If you spend time in the woods, you need a rig to do it with confidence, and the Dodge Ramcharger is my rig-of-choice.

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First Ride When you reach the pavement, you can feel the spring sun warming the surface.

You can smell it too, along with the ocean air.

You’re out of shape; the bike isn’t tuned yet; your biking clothes are buried in some storage bin still back at the barn. None of it matters.

You have stolen this day. Consequences will come later – but not today.

Now ride!

Ride like you only imagined in those winter daydreams. Ride like you’re escaping from a gulag of spring-time responsibilities.

Just ride.

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This time of year, Acadia offers spectacular views and relative solitude. The crowds and cars will come later.

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Winter’s a Wrap! Spring Fling Starts I’m bubbling with energy this time of year.

April 1st marks the official opening of Maine’s open-water fishing season, and my gear sits locked and loaded in my vehicle. To add fuel to the fire, I will have just spent the last three days of March at the annual State of Maine Sportsman’s Show.

This annual event always recharges my batteries for the upcoming fishing season. Just making the time to chat with fellow sportsmen and sportswoman always seems to get my blood boiling as a fresh fishing season readies to unfold.

More than one fishing excursion had places, dates and meeting times attached to it during those iconic three days in March.

Spring Sledding However, up here in Jackman, where the cold winds sweeping down

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Border Riders and Jackman Chamber provide report on their websites. Or you can do it the old-fashioned way – call your favorite lodge, and have someone there give you a “look out the window” report!

Weather permitting, the Jackman Region has a narrow window of opportunity for trail runners to soak up some spring snowmobiling. While the southern half of the Pine Tree State celebrates spring, sled jockeys in Jackman often squeeze out a few more weeks of winter. Longer days, moderating temperatures and increased sunshine attract riders looking for what some folks consider the best riding conditions of the year.

from Canada hold a tight grip on winter, some unfinished business needs immediate attention.

As long as a warm snap

doesn’t usher the region into an early “mud” season, snowmobilers eagerly take advantage of some spring sledding action.

Longer days and a higher angle from the sun certainly keep the clock ticking towards spring.

However, many of the

trails that carve through the mountains surrounding the hamlet of Jackman run through dense sections of forest that help protect the packed trail base from it’s eventual fate – mud.

As long as the winter clings to the trail system, spring snowmobiling rates high among trail runners. While many snowmobile owners in the southern half of the Pine Tree State have put their sleds on mothballs for the season, northern sled jockeys continue to squeeze every last snowflake left on the trail system.

The trails see less riding pressure as the sun’s warming ways slowly make snow travel more difficult. The first two weeks of this month, weather permitting, allow riders the best chance to enjoy this narrow window of opportunity.

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It’s important to monitor trail conditions closely when planning a ride this time of year. Both the Border Riders Sportsman’s Club (www.borderridersclub.com) and the Jackman Chamber of Commerce (www.jackmanmaine.org) websites list current trail condition reports.

For those of you who, like me, are not big fans of the World Wide Web, it’s nice to call one of the local lodges and talk

to a real person. Those folks who are on-site get hourly reports from the snowmobile operators returning from their day’s ride. I call it the “window view” trail report.

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April Anglers Get Jump on the Season By late April, snow has melted to the point where anglers can once again wend their way along streams and rivers.

Ice still covers Moosehead Lake, but some open water on ponds and lakes only a little south of Greenville beckons anxious anglers to get out and wet a line.

Also, fishing begins on Moose River as of April 1, and boaters can troll for landlocked salmon and brook trout starting from red markers just above Moose River Campground all the way down to Moosehead Lake.

There are no special terminal gear regulations on this section of river, so smelt, lures and streamer flies can all be put to good use.

This trip has much to recommend it, since fish, attracted by spawning smelts, will soon begin queuing up at the mouth of the river. In addition, fish from upstream head downstream in their pursuit of smelts.

My old favorite spot, the West Outlet, can also give up some good fish now. The biggest challenge here in the off season is simply getting to the water because of lingering snow. But by midApril, that shouldn’t pose much of a problem.

Trout from the previous fall’s stocking remain in the dam pool and just below, and these were good-size fish to begin with. But given the ample amount of forge species, these formerly 12- to 14inch brook trout will have grown in size by April, making them a truly desirable catch. Find Moose River on the DeLorme At-

If you have some time from late April through early June, try to hit the Piscataquis River in Sangerville. Not only is it full of trout, but also fishing this picturesque river is a reward unto itself. las, Map 40, A-5, and see West Outlet on Map 41, B-1.

Stocking Begins

By April, trout being held in Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIF&W) fish-rearing stations are ready to be released into the wild. And fortunately for anxious anglers, as soon as water levels dip down to a reasonable level and ice leaves area ponds, hatchery trucks begin rolling. So even if larger waterbodies remain locked in ice, smaller ponds and rivers offer exciting early-season fishing.

Because of its pastoral nature and inherent scenic beauty, Piscataquis River is one of my favorite waters. The river often sees its first stocking by late April.

While DIF&W releases brook trout in several lengthy stretches of river,

the section in Sangerville ranks as my favorite of all. The river here has lots of pocket water behind rocks and boulders, and also long, slick runs where trout often splash on the surface.

A suggestion for anyone fishing here in early spring – fish deep. Don’t just throw your lure out and begin reeling it in.

Instead, allow it to sink first and then slowly bring it back, imparting action with the rod tip every so often.

Here’s another thought on the Piscataquis River. Once stocking begins, it continues on a near-weekly basis. In 2018, DIF&W stocked the river eight different times throughout the spring season. This translates to the river being full of fish right up until low water puts a final end to trout fishing. Stocked fish that are not taken out by that time seek comfort in

feeder brooks and deep, spring-fed pools.

A few carryover brook trout usually remain in the river, and every once in a while a fish of considerably larger size winds up among the cookie-cutter-size stocked fish.

So if you have some time from late April through early June, try to hit the Piscataquis River, since the fish are there and fishing this picturesque river stands as a reward unto itself. Look for the Piscataquis River in Sangerville on Map 31, B-5.

Pond Fishing During years when

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That said, the area by the dam, where DIF&W releases trout, makes a fine place to fish from shore. Alternately – and this is something I haven’t done yet but intend to soon – a canoe will take an angler all around this small pond in a short time. In addition to a canoe, a portable fish loca(Continued on next page)

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Also, the East Branch of Piscataquis River enters Shirley Pond, and exploring that with a canoe

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from the surface along this part of the lake. That was in April, and never have I regretted more not carrying a fly rod along with my ultralight spinning gear.

Next month marks prime time for trolling Wassookeag for salmon and togue. Also, another fish species, this one present in numbers but largely unfished-for, swims in Wassookeag’s icy waters.

I’ll discuss the identity of this new fishery in next month’s column. But for now, here’s a hint – bring some light spinning gear along with your trolling gear.

See Wassookeag Lake on Map 32, D-1.

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Shirley Pond offers easy fishing from shore. Tom Seymour photo

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dents traveling along the forest floor.

A column report in Fur, Fish and Game magazine reports buyers of sheds paying more than $10 per pound for anglers in good condition.

Being a true treasure hunter, Kendig saves all his finds. In fact his wife, Sue, expressed concern over the mounting pile of “old horns” filling up their storage shed.

I chose not to share with her the potential dollar value of that stash.

Back to Fishing While I’m jacked to wet a line this month, realistically I’ve got to let winter play out its final hand. With good reason, many locals in the region consider May 10th the “real” opening day. With that said, some will push the envelope and let line loose towards the end of this month.

It’s not always easy. Last year, in an out-of-region excursion, I tried fishing West Grand Lake during the third week of April.

The plan – to troll with fly rods for salmon – met up with ice that refused to melt. The ice finally broke up, but by that time we’d hit the highway, bound for home.

Fishing the larger waters up here this month just requires keeping an eye on ice-out. Tami Cowen, owner of Cozy Cove Cabins, has a web cam live-streaming on her website that monitors Big Wood Pond.

That’s one of the best ways I’ve found to really keep an eye on real-time large lake fishing conditions in the region.

Die-hard salmon anglers like to start trolling streamers as soon as ice-out allows.

Others prefer to wait for the water to “turn,” meaning the water from the bottom of the lake rotates to the top. Either way I just like being out there.

Trolling with streamers such as a Joe’s

Smelt, Ballou Special or a Gray Ghost has produced handsomely for decades. While readers know I have a soft spot for the Ballou Special, I can attest to the fact that in the last two years I’ve caught all my salmon on a Black Nosed Dace tied by The Maine Sportsman’s very own Luke Giampetruzzi.

Giampetruzzi, our Young Maine Sportsman columnist, does an excellent job tying correct, durable flies. The outdoor world needs more young sportsmen like Giampetruzzi.

Because I have a passion for native brook trout, I’m sure that toward the end of this month I’ll find a way to wet a line in one of the local tributaries. The glitch in this noble plan – mud season – often restricts access to some really productive feeder streams.

Next month, we’ll delve into chasing those elusive native brookies!

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For Some, the Remington Model 8 Keeps Going This column rounds out a triple play of installments showcasing innovations by the Remington Arms Company.

In February, we covered the popular Remington 7mm Magnum cartridge. March brought us to Remington’s sturdy Model 720/21 bolt-action rifles.

April leads us to the 113-year-old Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle, designed by John M. Browning. Steve Holt, a reader from Brunswick, inspired this month’s effort with his enthusiasm for collecting and shooting the Model 8.

And Steve is not alone in his passion for the rugged Remington. L.L. Bean himself owned and used a Model 8 as a primary hunting rifle. His Model 8 hangs today next to the fireplace in the Hunting Department at

troduced its ‘Autoloading Repeating Rifle,’ which it advertised as the only locked-breech high-powered rifle in America.”

The Remington Model 8 employed the long recoil design that inventor Browning also used on his successful “Auto5” shotgun design. As a result, both rifle and shotgun appear with the distinctive humpbacked receiver.

Memories of quality hunting experiences as a youngster keep a Brunswick reader using the Remington Model 8 autoloader today. John Browning would be pleased to know his 113-year-old design still brings satisfaction in the field.

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History Launched in 1906 to compete against Winchester’s semi-automatic Model 1905 released a year earlier, the Model 8

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Self-Loader Knupp also writes that, “The Model 8 was chambered for four unique rimless cartridges: .25, .30, .32 and .35 Remington.” W. Todd Woodard, the editor of the 14th edition of Cartridges of the World said, “Remington felt some need to counter the popular series of rimmed cartridges chambered in Winchester’s Model 94 lever action.”

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rimmed .25-, .30-, .32-caliber cartridges.” He goes on to say, “a bit of reflection suggests the folks at Remington were confused. It was not the cartridges that made Browning’s invention successful; rather, it was Browning’s invention that made the cartridges successful.”

In any case, the Winchester Model 1905, the Remington Model 8 and the Winchester Model 94 all became successful rifles for deer and black bear, using cartridges almost ballistically identical. What Winchester did with rimmed shell casings, Remington did with rimless ones.

Features The Model 8 appears beefy and heavy, with a militaristic look to it. Its 22-inch barrel, topped with open sights, is completely shrouded except at the muzzle, which looks like a place to mount a modern sound suppressor or other muzzle break.

It uses a non-detachable box magazine with a capacity of five rounds.

Most shooters would push one round at a time into

the magazine well, but, quoting Knupp again, “the loading process could be sped up through the use of charging clips similar to those used in contemporary military rifles.”

The Model 8’s ability to fire a round with no further effort than pulling the trigger made it initially as popular with law enforcement agencies as with hunters. At least one Model 8 was used during the ambush to take down the outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

Further Developments In 30 years of production, Remington made about 60,000 Model 8s, most in the plain-stocked standard version. Early in this period, L.L. Bean acquired a Model 8 in .25 Remington despite the .25’s obvious shortcomings as a hunting cartridge. With L.L.’s reputation as a deer hunter, his choice of the .25 Remington seems a bit mysterious.

In any case, in 1936 Remington altered the Model 8’s stock from straight to a pistol grip, dropped the .25 Rem-

ington chambering and called the new version the Model 81. In 1940 they took a great step forward by adding the .300 Savage cartridge to the lineup.

By the end of World War II, both the .30 and .32 Remington chamberings fell into obsolescence and unpopularity. New gas-operated semi-automatics were coming to the fore, as well. Remington’s own Model 740, also called the “Woodmaster,” became a top competitor.

Still Famous Production of the Model 81 ended in 1950, but it maintains its fame even today. Some like the simple, low-maintenance recoil system. Others appreciate the connection to a more “Golden Age” of hunting and other shooting sports. Still others like the traditional calibers that continue to work well for deer and black bear in the Maine woods, among other places.

Rifles in .35 Remington or .300 Savage serve well without any special consideration. Those in .32 or 30 Remington, while adequate, require

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A rifle in .25 Remington should be left at home in the gun cabinet. Cartridges of the World rightly calls it “a barely adequate deer cartridge,” and says “it will do in a pinch, provided the hunter is a good shot.”

End Game Steve Holt, the reader who inspired column, owns a triumvirate of Model 8s, all in .35 Remington. He first shot one at the age of eight, and started hunting with the Model 8 back in the mid-1960s, when he was ten. A ten-year-old could legally hunt on his own back then.

Of the experience Steve says, “I remember how heavy it was to carry, but I was proud that the older men at camp welcomed me into their hunting camp tradition.”

That is Maine hunting at its finest.

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of those memories and the quality of the experience keeps Holt using the Model 8 today, when there are so many other options. John Browning would be pleased to know that his 113-year-old design still brings satisfaction in the field.

Higher grade Model 8s are rare, and command some pretty steep prices today. Standard grade examples in good condition should bring somewhere between $750 and $950. Of course, the better the condition, the higher the price, and it would not be unusual to find something going for upwards of $1,500 and $2,000. Find one previously owned by somebody such as L.L. Bean, and who knows what the price might be.

Collecting aside, it is nice to think that some Model 8s still make it to camp every fall.

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Fiddleheads with Bacon and Shitakes Ahhhhh … spring is in the air. And what a Maine winter we have had.

This next meal is all about more layers of flavors, easy-peasy, and get out the door for more outside fun!

Aren’t you excited when you see the spring ferns popping their heads up past the snow along the streams? It is truly a sight to be-

hold. Next time you pick fiddleheads, take a moment and look up at Maine Cerulean Blue sky, look down at the new green fiddleheads popping up, listen to the sound of the stream running by, and then there’s the aroma – the promise of another Maine spring.

Throw a little bacon and bourbon on that visual, and you have a meal!

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Fiddleheads wtih Bacon and Shitakes This dish is a meal in itself. Only add dessert!

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Ingredients: • 1 pound fiddlehead ferns • ½ pound shitake mushrooms, halved • 1 tablespoon olive oil • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped • 4 ounces bacon, chopped up** • Sea salt and ground black pepper Trim dark ends from fiddlehead stems and wash in coarse strainer using a strong

stream of cool water. Place in large bowl of water, swishing to rub off thin flakes of chaff on ferns. Drain and dry in kitchen towel.

Heat olive oil in large cast iron fry pan with cover. Add bacon and cook over medium – high heat. Add fiddleheads, mushrooms and garlic; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Uncover and cook 4 more minutes; they’ll be tender and slightly crunchy. Add salt and pepper to taste, and serve immediately.

Chef’s note: This is delicious alone, or on top of rice or pasta. I love it on rotini pasta with an added splash of olive oil and grated Parmesan. **I use local bacon, and it really does make the difference. If my local purveyors are out, I like Smith Log Smokehouse in Monroe, ME.

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The Mystery of the Disappearing Sea-Run Trout For many years, anadromous – or “searun” – brook trout were my opening-day quarry.

Little streams that fed into the sea held runs of hard-fighting, iridescent-sided brook trout.

And then, several years ago, the trout failed to show up. Something happened. Perhaps the fish simply decided not to go to sea. Or maybe it was because of something else entirely.

One of my favorite opening-day haunts, a river that empties into Belfast Bay, recently saw a precipitous decline in returning brook trout.

And then, three years ago, the place was bereft of trout altogether. Interestingly, the mouth of this small river hosts more elver nets than you can shake an ultralight spinning rod at. Was this the problem? Did the elver nets block passage, or at least, deter trout from returning to their home river?

To find out more, I spoke with a representative of the Maine Department of Marine Resources. After stating my concerns, the individual said that elver nets absolutely do not catch trout, because they are equipped with excluders. To that, I pointed out that it seemed more than coincidental that the more elver nets in the water, the fewer trout ascend the river.

And then the gentleman on the other end of the line told me all anyone needed to know. “Well, Tom, the state makes an awful lot of money from the elver fishery.”

That said it all. I thanked the gentle-

The decline, then complete disappearance of sea-run trout in a small river that empties into Belfast Bay coincided with the proliferation of elver nets strung out at the mouth of the river. Is this the problem? Do the elver nets block the fishes’ passage, or at least deter trout from returning to their home river?

Sea-run brook trout like this one have stopped running up Midcoast streams. The reason for this disappearance is a mystery. Tom Seymour photo

man for his candor, and chalked up another resource as having gone down the drain. Wiser heads than mine might have other thoughts about this situation. Perhaps the problem of disappearing anadromous trout is due to something altogether removed from the elver fishery. But whatever the reason, the fact remains that a precious resource has gone on the rocks. And all any of us can do is to hope that the problem is temporary and that one day, the silvery, hard-battling, sea-run brook trout will again become part of the fishery.

Tiny Streams So now, with the end of the sea-run trout fishery, my early April efforts are centered upon tiny, inland streams, the freestone kind that jump and tumble down gentle hills and steep ravines.

Everyone sees these tiny brooks, but few ever pursue them for their hidden treasures of native brook trout.

The truth is, any little brook or steam that contains water year-round, even if they become extremely low in summer, probably has at least a small population of trout. What’s more, these diminutive streams of-

ten yield better results during times of high water than during lower, more ideal conditions.

High water washes food into the stream, stimulating trout feeding activity. Also, high water on a 4-foot wide stream means cloudy water – a good

thing.

Under normal conditions, trout in these little brooks and streams are extremely wary. But high water and its accompanying murkiness, allow us to approach much closer than we ordinarily would.

Often, when water levels diminish and become perfectly clear, trout become more difficult to catch.

Finally, it has become necessary to go farther afield in search of these little streams, because so much land gets posted each year. And often, it’s difficult to find someone to ask permission of, because there is no name or phone number on the posted sign.

Still, those streams are out there and while that remains so, I’ll keep on going out each April, hoping for a taste of the old days, in the form of a limit of native brook trout.

Grandpa No Fool When I was a youngster, my grandpa marginalized my early April fishing efforts. “There’s no sense to go until the leaves are as big as a mouse’s ear,” the old man would warn me as I headed out the door, fishing rod in hand, headed to some little trickle of a trout stream.

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Small Downeast Waters Promise Exciting Trout Fishing The light morning rain had saturated the slippery dirt-covered bank. I stepped cautiously as I approached the rapidly running, brackish stream. This small brook had produced early-April sea trout for me.

When I reached streamside, I lowered a small, silver spinner and a no. 8-snelled hook, embellished with an ample amount of worm, connected to 6-pound test monofilament, into the water.

The lure was quickly swept downstream.

After numerous retrieves with no strikes, I felt the twitch of a small fish attacking my bait.

The trout moved lethargically in the cold water.

My heart raced. I was about to land my first fish of the 2019 fishing season.

The small trout made an effort to slide in behind several boulders to free itself.

Finally, I was able to slide the 7-inch sea-run in close to the muddy shoreline. I cautiously unhooked the fingerling and released it back into the rushing water.

But wait, I hear my wife’s voice from the other room: “Jim, it’s time to get up. We need to go shopping in Ellsworth.”

Wow, I must have been dreaming! Howev-

Region C biologist Greg Burr suggested concentrating on small ponds, especially those that were closed to ice fishing. These small ponds warm up quickly, he said, and the trout become active soon after ice out.

Trophy-sized fish like this are available from Pork Barrel Lake, located northeast of West Grand Lake.

er, that isn’t an unusual thing for me to do, especially just before open-water season begins.

I think of it as pre-fishing. In my dreams I have visions of where, when and how I will catch that first fish of the season.

And as you may have noticed from the above fishing account, my fish-

ing dreams are in vivid color and seem like virtual reality.

Trout Galore The truth is that sea-run brookies, also known as “salters,” have on many occasions permitted my wife, Donna, and me to hook and release our first trout of

the season. My inventory of sea-run trout streams includes a multitude of small, silt-laden waters in Washington and Hancock County.

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of the best bets to catch that first speckled beauty of the season can be found by referring to Delorme’s, The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer, Maps 16 and 23.

Biologist’s Top Waters As far fresh-water trout fishing is concerned, Region C biologist Greg Burr offered the following suggestions for anglers: “I have found that the waters to concentrate on are the small ponds.

Some of the best ponds to concentrate on are the trout ponds that were not open to ice fishing or were under fished during the winter and were stocked heavily in the fall. These small ponds warm up quickly, and the trout become active soon after ice out.”

One pond in Hancock County that encompasses many of the essentials mentioned by Mr. Burr is 36-acre Tilden Pond in T10 SD, Map 25, D-1. Because of its remoteness, Tilden is lightly-fished by ice anglers.

Therefore, open-water anglers can expect some good catches of attractive-size brookies this spring. Fishery personnel released 1,200 6- to 8-inch brook trout there last October.

A 35-foot deep hole lies along the southeast shoreline; however, early-April anglers are usually more successful by concentrating their efforts in the shallower, warmer water.

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Lake, and then bearing a little northeast after passing Mud Pond.

Another Hancock County water where anglers may experience early-trout season success is Salmon Pond (Map 24, D-5). This 10-acre pond receives an annual stocking of 300 brook trout.

This pond receives very little fishing pressure. Hiking into this water takes only about 10 minutes on the trail from

Route 182. Brook trout in the 8- to 10- inch range are the norm, with a few 12-to 14- inch trout taken by diligent anglers.

Washington County Brookies According to biologist Burr, “One isolated pond in Washington County where anglers should find exciting brook-trout fishing is Pork Barrel Lake.”

This 33-acre water is located just northeast of West Grand Lake in T6 R1 (see Map 35, A-2). Pork

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And as often as not, my efforts were rewarded with a limit of beautifully colored native brook trout. And funny thing, once I began catching trout and bringing them home, grandpa changed his tune and even began accompanying me. It later occurred to me that he taunted me in the beginning just to trigger my contrary nature. He knew if he told me trout wouldn’t bite, that I would certainly go out and try to prove him wrong.

This had the effect of saving grandpa from tramping around in the early April snow in search of some place where trout were biting. In essence, the old man used

Barrel is a very productive trout pond. Hatchery personnel stock this water with 500 7-inch brookies annually.

It is accessible with a 13-mile drive up the Amazon Road from the Grand Lake Stream Road. Once you get to the parking area for this pond, there is a ¼-mile hike down an old woods road to the pond. Regulations on this pond include: Closed to ice fishing, use of artificial lures only, a two-fish limit, of which only one

may exceed 14 inches.

In 2000, an artificial lures only regulation was implemented. This regulation should enhance holdover of trout to larger sizes, as well as reducing the threat of an introduction of competing fish species. The lake is considered to be one of the best trout waters in the area.

Another newly-stocked brook trout pond in Washington County is Norse Pond in Cutler (Map 27, C-2).

me as a guinea pig. Perhaps, it occurred to me many years later, grandpa wasn’t so misinformed after all.

Ice-Out Who knows when ice-out will occur in any given year? We can generalize a bit, though, and say that by late April, a good number of Midcoast lakes see open water.

And in the case of Lake Saint George in Liberty, smelt begin running in April and salmon begin hunting them. Now makes a perfect time to go out with a fly rod and an assortment of streamer flies.

Both the upper and lower basins hold salmon in April and early May. So don’t hesitate to begin trolling immediately upon launching your boat at the public ramp

This is a hike-in pond from Route 191 on the Bog Brook Cove Trail. To quite biologist Burr, “It is a one-mile hike to the pond, but worth the trip, as it produces trout up to 18 inches that are extremely fat.”

Three hundred and fifty 7-inch brookies were stocked in this water last year.

This water is closed to ice fishing, and it’s closed to using live fish as bait.

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along Route 3. Stay no more than 50 feet from shore, occasionally making inroads much closer.

Also, don’t hesitate to forsake the shore for trolling out in the middle. This worked well for me one cold, snowy Patriot’s Day back in the early 1980s.

Finally, try to go a little bit faster than usual. My best luck when trolling steamers most always comes when I’m going faster than other boats on the lake.

Find Saint George Lane on the DeLorme Atlas, Map 14, B-1.

April holds its own charm, and a warm, sunny day afield makes for cherished memories down the road.

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Making Fishing Flies with Fur and Feathers By tying flies using natural materials, an angler can achieve a feeling of pride and accomplishment. As a youngster, the author tied flies using feathers from the family’s egg-laying hens, and fur from a trapped muskrat.

Fly fishermen are familiar with streamers, wet flies, dry flies and nymphs. The standard flies today are made out of feathers, buck tail and various assorted natural and manmade products.

In days past, however, all parts of a fly were made utilizing natural materials.

As a kid growing up in Maine, I first started using “home tied” flies on a cane pole and a telescoping metal fishing rod to dabble in water for trout in the small streams around home.

The first trout I ever caught on a fly was very memorable, since I caught it on the first fly I’d ever tied myself. I caught the trout behind our home in Cumberland Center in the Mill Brook (Delorme Atlas, Map 5, D-4).

I’d made the fly with a Kirby hook, some of my mom’s sewing thread, a “Community Chest” red feather, and a brown feather from one of our chickens.

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many trout.

Maine had a generous limit on trout back then – I think it was a dozen or so, and they had to be 6 inches or longer.

Even today, I still use different shades of brown on my flies for a lot of my trout fishing.

My other grandfather gave me the eleventh printing (July 1947) of “Bergman’s Trout” as a Christmas present in the mid 1950s. He did not tie flies, but he thought that the book would help me with my fur and chicken feather attempts. I still have that book and another that he gave me, “A Trout and Salmon Fisherman,” by Edward R. Hewitt.

Fur The fur of a number of different furbearers is suitable for making parts of fishing flies such as the wings, bodies and tails.

In making flies, I have used the fur of beaver, muskrat, fox, rabbit and even pine marten.

A few strands of the longer guard hair from the pelt of a muskrat or beaver may be used to tie the tail of the smallest delicate dry fly, enabling it to float higher on the water than can flies made with many other materials.

The wings of many wet flies and streamers can be created utilizing the longer guard hairs of many furbearers in the same manner as buck tail. However, it’s much

harder to find hair suitable for the wings of dry flies.

Dry Fly Wings Require Strong, Fine Hair The hair of deer or bear that is normally used to tie streamers and large wet flies, is not suitable for dry flies. That’s because hair does not compress well, especially when the tier is working with small hooks and thin thread.

So you need to find hair that’s fine in texture and strong. Therefore, the best hairs to use for small wings are badger, groundhog, lynx, polar bear (finer than black bear), and squirrel. (All are considered furbearers with the exception of the groundhog.)

Fly-tying shops and mail order businesses today will have synthetic polar bear and several other synthetics. If one can legally buy the real thing, it is money well spent.

It’s also worth noting that the hair of various primates has previously been used for some applications, but that’s no longer readily available.

The use of buck tail, badger and woodchuck hairs in the creation of many streamers and a number of large wet flies is well-known. The use of fox, coyote, raccoon and other fur may be used in a like manner and the finer diameter of say fox’s tail or body fur gives the

Badger, fox & beaver fur. David Miller photo

fly an additional “pulsing motion” in the water.

Dubbing I like to use the use of fur to make dubbing for fly bodies.

In making the body material, the soft underfur is taken from between the outside longer guard hairs and the hide. To aid in plucking out the underfur, the guard hair may be clipped off. I find it easier to pull the longer hairs out of a pinched cluster of the underfur in my fingers.

To make the body of a fly, utilize the soft underfur of a furbearer by spreading a small amount out on a clean flat surface, and roll a waxed thread through it to cover it with the fur. Spread out the fur in a narrow row so that you can take the waxed thread and roll it back and forth over the fur. The thread used needs to be waxed with bee’s wax. The waxed string has to be sticky enough for the fur to adhere to it, so ensure it is well covered with pure bee’s wax.

As you spread out the fur, be sure that it is

thickest in the middle and tapers off towards both of the ends. This allows you to create a nicely tapered body when the dubbing is wound onto the hook to form the body of a fly.

Natural, or Artificial?

If a finer fur is required for small dry or wet flies, then the underlaying fur may be plucked out and chopped into smaller lengths with a razor blade or by the use of small sharp scissors.

The bodies of small nymphs are easily made in the same manner as the body of a wet or dry fly. Fine feathers such as the down of a duck, a marabou feather or the fluffy base of other feathers are also commonly used in the same manner as soft underfur.

Today one can just go to a fly shop or on line to buy various colored chenille and other synthetic body building materials (dubbing) if so desired.

However, I feel there is an amount of pride and accomplishment in tying flies using natural materials, much as it was done in the past.

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Ice-Out Salmon and Togue Heat This Region Up There is something magical about being on the lake that delivered the world-record landlocked salmon, and this angler wouldn’t miss an ice-out day on Sebago for anything.

It was a chilly morning on Sebago Lake (DeLorme Atlas, Map 5, C-1) when Rene and I put the boat in at the State Park launch in Casco. The air was 28 degrees and the water temperature was a chilly 36. Probably too cold for fishing, but when the local anglers cry “Iceout at Sebago!” you heed their alert, load up your boat and head out! We were on the water as the sun was coming up and had lines out, tipped with smelt on a bait harness.

We were trolling along the shoreline just off of the buoys that lead into the Songo River. The two of us were dressed more like it was ice-fishing season. The wind was raw, but the rising sunshine was welcome.

Once the sun was up, I banged bottom right away, having misjudged the rapid descent of my trolling fly line. Even though it was bottom, it was still exciting to hear the real scream again this spring.

After a quick check of my bait, I began trolling again and had a solid strike. This felt like a big fish. I took what I could from him, expecting a long run to the surface like spring salmon always give. Much to my dismay, he ran deep and began to pump at the rod. “A togue!” I yelled at Rene, knowing for certain the species that was creating that tension on the other end of the line.

The big fish put up a good fight, but was soon

netted and released – a nice 22-inch Sebago laker.

Water’s Almost Too Cold As often happens, the wind picked up and really began to blow. We weren’t able to troll bait, so we headed in for the day.

Subsequent trips to Sebago as the water warmed up a tad put us into some decent salmon and the occasional togue.

This was ice-out angling in this neck of the woods, the time of year we wait for and enjoy to the fullest.

Sebago Lake is the first lake in our region to see ice-out. Wind helps the process along and before you know it, we are on the water.

As you could guess by the water temperature on my first outing, it was almost too cold to fish.

Salmon like waters in the 55-degree range, but I find they come on the bite starting around 40 degrees. Sebago anglers line up at the launch as soon as the lake is fishable, temperature be damned!

Sebago anglers use a variety of techniques.

Most, however, drag a fly line with smelt, the prime forage fish for both species.

When the smelt run hits Sebago, smelt will charge up the Songo River at night and return to the lake during the day.

Hungry predators lurk at the mouth of the Songo and chase the large

clouds of smelt at sunrise.

When the fish are biting, this is one busy piece of real estate. You need to watch your lines and your course to keep from snagging a fellow angler.

But if you can handle the crowd, you will likely be rewarded with some decent salmon angling.

Last season, Sebago salmon were good-sized, with a few football-shaped bruisers mixed in.

Windy? Time for Streamers!

When the lake blows up, as it typically does, some anglers head for the launch, while others kick the motor up a notch and break out the streamer flies. You can’t beat a Barnes Special for early Sebago salmon trolling.

Jerry Roth, the author’s late father, shows off a big smile and a bigger fish with this ice-out salmon. Photo by Tom Roth

A Gray Ghost is probably my second-favorite fly for the big lake.

There is something magical about being on the lake that delivered the world-record landlocked salmon, and this angler wouldn’t miss an ice-out day on Sebago for anything.

Thompson Lake Historically, the next lake to shed enough ice to troll is nearby Thompson Lake (Map 11, E-4).

Thompson Lake has been hot for the last several years, especially on iceout salmon. I’ve caught more and bigger fish on Thompson than at Seba(Continued on page 71)

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April Starts Open Water Fishing in Rangeley Region This month, the rays of the sun blaze in a more direct path to earth, causing a slight warming trend in this region ... almost as if spring had sprung.

Some of us in the more mountainous regions still have snowbanks to contend with, but the warmer weather sure gives an indication that the fly fishing gear needs to be close at hand.

As a procrastinator, I usually have put off fishing gear maintenance until right before fishing season starts, so this will be the time I usually choose to take care of this chore.

I loosen all of the line

Brett Damm, owner of the Rangeley Region Sports Shop, is a reliable source of information regarding early-season fishing for trout and salmon. “The water just below the Magalloway Dam should be good,” he reported, “or the section of the Rapid River before the Pond in the River.” from fly reels down to the backing, and string them from low-hanging tree branches in the yard. A slight tension on the line as it stretches in the warm sun removes kinks and straightens the line, allowing the line to flow through the ferrules more smoothly. It also allows me to gently scrub the line with Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, or some other gentle cleaner like “Endura,” one of the best

fly line cleaner/dressings on the market, found at speydoctor.com.

After rinsing the line and drying it I rewind it onto the reels and then tear down the reels for cleaning and lubrication.

I check my vest and bags to make sure I have all of my fishing gear in order.

I always try to have any needed gear purchased well before the season starts, but I give it one more look to make sure.

I guess my procrastinating doesn’t really affect my fishing season in a negative manner. It kind of gives me something to do while I wait for the weather to be more accommodating to my fly fishing desires ... as long as I don’t have to wear snowshoes to get to my favorite fishing location – I’m good.

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Damm, a Maine guide and experienced fly rod angler, stopped his fly-tying lessons for a moment and kindly answered my questions.

“There’s plenty of excellent April fishing in Rangeley,” he replied.

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the section of the Rapid River before the Pond in the River.”

Damm is a good source of fly fishing information for this region.

Over the years he has often repeated a simple statement that many early-season anglers overlook – a choice piece of guidance that helps anglers understand that they must take a different approach to fishing at early times in the season.

“Cold waters at this time of year keep the fish from expending too much energy,” said Damm.

“Anglers would do well to place a big nymph right on their nose. They’ll go after a smelt pattern, but chasing a nymph would be even easier for them.”

Early Fishing I checked the U. S. Geological record for iceout dates on Rangeley Lake and counted only 22 years of this event happening in April – this is data collected from 1880 to 2005 – a 125-year period.

With this in mind, I kind of plan on doing lake or pond fishing in May, and I’ll stick to fishing in moving waters this month. Several locations in the Rangeley Region offer brooks, streams and rivers that rival the best salmonid fishing in the state.

Excellent fishing for native wild brook trout and salmon is found along the Magalloway River that feeds into and out of Aziscohos Lake (Delorme Atlas, Map 28,

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go, so I make it a point to hit this water as soon as I can.

Last season, with a late ice-out, Thompson produced solid salmon fishing well into May, and I’m talking about fly-line fishing close to the surface.

Most days, I would start out dragging smelts until the wind picked up, then I would switch to the old stand-by fly, the Barnes Special. You may think I get a commission with all the times I mention it, but the simple fact is the fly produces on so many Maine waters. This fly was first tied

by Dr. C. Lowell Barnes, a noted guide from East Sebago.

Barnes trolled Sebago by rowboat in the pre-outboard era. He kept good company, fishing with L. L. Bean, and selling his flies around the region.

It was said that Barnes never took a

E-1). The lengthy system of waterways drains mountainous ponds and aquifers near the Canadian border, filling small brooks with cold, clean water that enters the big lake at the north end and then releases it at the opposite end near Route 16. Fishing either section – the Upper Magalloway or the Lower Magalloway River – produces some awesome fishing.

The Kennebago River (Map 28, C-3 and D-3) also offers exceptional fishing for native wild brook trout and salmon.

This river gets its water from nearly the same region as the Magalloway system, and flows unimpeded to its terminus at Cupsuptic Lake.

The Sandy River follows Route 4 from the

The author brings to hand a fine landlocked salmon in the Rangeley Region. William Clunie photo

Sandy River Ponds (Map 19, A-1) to Farmington (Map 20, C-1 and D-1), and then flows all the way to the Kennebec River near Anson/Madison (Map 20, B-4). Anglers laying a line in these waters have a chance to land some of the many brook trout or brown trout that

liking to the “new” outboards, preferring to row his creations around the lake. I’ll tip my hat to the good Doctor when I tie his fly on again this month.

Lake Auburn The final destination for ice-out hotspots for this angler is Lake Auburn (Map 11, E-4). Home to some whopper salmon and togue, Lake Auburn is the last to see ice-out in this region.

It’s a source for drinking water, and is therefore protected from development, ice-fishing and bodily contact with the water. The lake’s pristine waters and undeveloped shoreline bring you back to an earlier age. Only the traffic from Route 4 will tell you that you aren’t farther north on a secluded lake.

Lake Auburn differs for the aforementioned lakes as the Water District owns most of the land around the lake, making shoreline angling at ice-out a popular and accessible venture. When the smelt are run-

the DIF&W stocked there last fall. Many of the fish that have been stocked there throughout the rest of 2018 might still be lurking in the river, too – bigger and hungrier than ever.

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ning, shoreline anglers can do quite well, and each year some landlubber drags in a monster togue or salmon.

Boating anglers employ similar methods as they do on the other lakes with bait harness or sewn-on smelt taking center stage at the start of the season.

Gray Ghost or Umbagog Smelt I like to motor out from the launch and troll along the buoys that separate the open portion of the lake from the closed section.

Later, when the winds whip up, my go-to fly for Lake Auburn is either the Gray Ghost or the Umbagog Smelt. Both closely mimic the smelt, and I think the added purple hue of the Umbagog pattern matches the breeding color of the smelt better.

These three lakes have great salmon and lake trout fisheries, and they produce well as soon as the ice is gone. Wherever you head for ice-out action, this month is bound to be hot.

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Wildlife Quiz Answers: Brook Trout (Quiz on Page 51)

1. Some nicknames of the brook trout are Squaretail, Brookie and Speckled Trout.

2. The fins have a distinctive white leading edge.

3. The worm-like markings on a brook trout’s back are called vermiculations.

4. In spawning season, a male brook trout displays orange-red sides.

5. No, they are not tolerant of warm water. Instead, they prefer cool water – between 57 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

6. To escape the summer heat, trout seek shelter under rocks, logs, undercut banks and deep pools.

7. Brook trout inhabiting streams can live about 3 years, while those living in lakes and ponds live longer – as many as 5 or 6 years.

8. Brook trout typically spawn in September or October.

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Creating a Better Place in the Fishing World I always thought that as people age, they would slowly begin to lose their passion for the outdoors – you know, sinking into the couch a little deeper and making excuses for not getting out as much.

As I prepare for another April in Maine, I can’t help but feel thankful. My desire to jump into another season of fishing almost overwhelms me.

I’m not really that old, but I started enjoying the woods and waters at around 10 years old, so that makes it a passionate 54-year adventure in the outdoors that seems to be growing each year.

I marvel at those anglers older than me who just keep going. One fellow that comes to mind immediately is a client that I guided multiple times over the years, Dr. Ron Apter, of Virginia.

He came up to fish with me for several years in a row right here on the Androscoggin River for smallmouth bass.

At eighty-something, Dr. Apter fished all day long with hardly a break for lunch, and never stopped dishing out his endless supply of excellent jokes. Some guys

tell jokes – off color and mostly half-baked. However, this guy had the best jokes, and never quit. Over the years, Mr. Apter transformed from a fishing client to a fishing buddy.

Another elderly fellow that comes to mind, Charlie Mann, amazes me with his lengthy “career” of involvement in fishing. His is quite a story ... one that most folks may never have heard before.

Charlie Mann Some anglers may have heard of the “Mann’s Smelt,” a streamer named after Winthrop fly tier, Mr. Charlie Mann.

The unique method Charlie devised for tying the Mann’s Smelt reveals the creator’s dynamic mind and showcases his fantastic engineering abilities.

The body of the fly, made by tying and gluing a “Stim-U-Dent” toothpick to the shank of a hook, gets covered with Mylar to form one of the best smelt imitations I’ve ever seen. I will certainly be swinging this streamer through every moving stretch of water I come across this season.

Retired Virginia doctor Ron Apter shows off a large smallmouth bass from the Androscoggin River. William Clunie photo www.MaineSportsman.com

Mann has been tying flies for around fifty years and was a regular guest tier at all of the major fishing shows. His smiling face, peeking out from behind his favorite vise, was always there to greet anyone walking down the fly tier’s row at the shows.

Mann also enjoys tying commemorative flies: in 1995, he created the “Governor Angus King Streamer”; a few years later, he developed the “Maine Game Warden”; and then he followed that with the “Maine Guide” fly – all presentation-grade flies of the highest order.

Charlie started tying flies while station in Greenland with the U. S. Army during the 1960s.

Tying flies must have piqued his highly-developed engineering mindset, honed during his lengthy and successful civilian and military career.

Meeting Mann My introduction to Charlie Mann still makes me laugh today.

We both are members of the non-profit organization, “Back In The Maine Stream” (BITMS),

a group of disabled veterans dedicated to helping other disabled Maine veterans heal through fishing (BackInTheMaineStream.org). After I started working with this organization, someone suggested that I give Charlie a ride because I drove right by his house on the way to and from our monthly meetings.

I didn’t really know Charlie at the time, so during our monthly rides we began to talk about our military service. He never did mention that he was famous for tying flies, so I didn’t find out about it until someone else mentioned that we were fortunate to have Mr. Charlie Mann in our organization and told me all about his extensive fly-tying background.

After retiring from a lengthy career in the military, Charlie worked for and retired from another large organization, Raytheon. From there, Mr. Mann’s desire to serve his fellow man found him volunteering once again – this time, with Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW), managing the volunteer program. One

of Charlie’s greatest accomplishments in that role was that he started the highly successful “Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs” program.

Mr. Mann continues his volunteering with our lucky veterans in the BITMS program by helping at the tying desk and filling in during seminars at the monthly meetings in Augusta. I feel so blessed to be able to spend time with Charlie each month on our drive to the meetings.

Even though Charlie and I have been members in this organization for several years now, we still haven’t had a chance to fish together. This June may change this problem – there’s a fishing trip planned on Rangeley Lake, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be assisting on the trip and get to do a little trolling with this famous fly tier. I can hardly wait to see how some of his flies work while trolling.

Watch Charlie Tie This year, at the 39th Annual State of Maine Sportsman Show at the Augusta Civic Center, I’ll be manning our BITMS booth with Charlie and (Continued on next page)

Winthrop fly tier Charlie Mann, shown here (far right, red hat) tying flies at last year’s State of Maine Sportsman Show at the “Back In The Maine Stream” booth. William Clunie photo

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marveling at his tying skills. Please stop by and check out our excellent program for disabled veterans. While you’re there, sit with Charlie Mann at the vise and watch a real master craftsman at work.

Mr. Mann has certainly done well for himself, but more importantly he has helped others become better at tying and fishing. His beautiful flies catch fish, and his unique tying techniques and tricks help others expand their own fly-tying repertoire.

Most of all, Charlie’s patient and steady teaching skills help him assist other veterans in their search for relief from medical and emotional trauma through our fishing program. For some, fishing alone provides the relief, while others include fly tying as a way

to relax and heal – and Charlie and his awesome talents shine in this arena.

So even though aging anglers might slow down a bit, they can still contribute to the angling community by sharing their own talents. If an angler can find a little

piece of fishing that they seem to have nearly perfected and then share it with other anglers, the fishing world becomes a better place for us all.

I hope to see you all at the Show.

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Ghost Hunting and Fossil-Finding in NH’s Bone Yards As much as I live for the fall deer woods, midspring and its earthy aromas has to be the most pleasant time to take a stroll through New Hampshire’s forested mountains. The sun is warm enough that you can trek in a tee-shirt, yet the air is still cool enough that one can go along briskly without overheating.

The swale grasses and stiff hobblebush are laid flat, previously crushed by five to ten feet of snow.

One can scan and navigate the forest floor in an enjoyable fashion particular to this invigorating two-week window.

In recent years, I have found myself anticipating spring melt-off moose shed hunting almost as much as I anticipate November deer-tracking snow.

As some readers may recall from issues past, my springer spaniel, Galt, has become quite the selftaught antler dog. However, in this column, I am not going to highlight the victories we have had finding big, fresh antlers; instead, I want to illuminate the sad truth of what we are more often finding—or not finding.

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In a single day, I’ve found as many as four whole or partial moose skeletons. I’ve found a half-dozen skulls in one small yard, and fossilized femur after fossilized femur. The cause? Winter ticks.

Though the photo doesn’t do it justice, this antler might have been a NH state record shed, had it been wholly intact and not chewed. This particular yard was littered with record-book antlers, almost all reminiscent of dinosaur fossils. The location would have been a gem in its heyday 8 or 10 years ago!

dark, dancing shadows.

Occasionally we stumble onto evidence of a survivor, but we know it to be only a revenant, one who has seen the decline of its own species.

Not only have I ex-

plored new areas that show evidence of being a prosperous moose yard ten years ago, but I am finding that my favorite annual yards are depleted drastically from one year to the next. In one of

my particularly favorite areas, I noticed the number of rubs decline from the hundreds in 2017 to the tens in 2018. And the antlers I found dropped from seven to one.

Like the ghostly moose of Coos County, NH, these sheds are disappearing from sight, slowing sinking into the ground. Their age showed in their soggy cardboard quality, ripping and bending when pulled up. Thus, they were left behind for some other sad shed-hunting soul to find and mourn.

Moose Graveyard Initially, I just thought that perhaps the moose had moved to a different area, but after weeks and a hundred hiked miles of investigating, I found no evidence to support a move.

What I did find evidence of, was a dying population. I’ve found as many as four whole or partial skeletons in one day. I’ve found a half-dozen skulls in one small yard. I’ve found fossilized femur after fossilized femur.

In an overnight trek into a five-mile-remote yard last spring, my wife and I found thirty-one moose antlers. Only three were fresh! And it was not like the rest were only a year or two old, either. The majority were at least six years old – rotten flimsy, green with moss, or chewed from top to bottom. One was even sunken two inches into the ground—with a downed tree on top of it!

Only a couple tips of tines were poking through the earth. (Galt actually jumped over it and the log, completely oblivious to its long-dwindled scent.)

In that one location (granted, it has been a massive wintering area) in the past two years, we have found ninety-seven different antlers—and only twelve have been browns.

What has happened to this once booming population?

Ticks.

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Fly Fishing for Spring Pike Maine has an abundant population of an invasive species called northern pike. They grow to be very big – sometimes up to 30 to 40 pounds (that’s a very big one).

They are very aggressive. The best way to describe their appearance and temperament is that look and act like an overgrown pickerel. And like pickerel, they are prone to smashing and slashing at flashy lures and flies.

Now don’t get me wrong – I like to fly fish for trout as much as the next guy, but hooking into a big pike on a fly rod is quite a rush.

So if you want to go fly fishing for pike, in my experience the springtime is the best time to do so.

Spawn Near Inlets In late March, pike begin to spawn in the inlets of big lakes like

Now don’t get me wrong – I like to fly fish for trout as much as the next guy, but hooking into a big pike on a fly rod is quite a rush. the one in North Bay on Great Pond. That is usually where the biggest fish in the lake all come to – if they are not in the inlet itself, then they will likely be in the waters around it.

When it comes to targeting these fish, you’ll need the right tackle: • A rod that has a heavy backbone, like an eight or nine weight • Either floating or intermediate tip line, because they don’t tend to be too deep, especially right before they spawn • A good leader if you can get away with it, would be a steel leader, but sometimes it spooks fish, so 30- or 40-pound fluorocarbon line works

New Hampshire (Continued from page 74)

New England moose populations knows that winter ticks are to blame.

NH Fish and Game partnered with the University of New Hampshire to study and better understand the details of the winter tick kill. After hiring some helicopter cowboys to net cannon, hobble, blindfold, sample, and radio collar cows and calves in Coos County, the UNH researchers tracked their movements, and recovered their eventual carcasses to study.

Of the 179 collared calves in 2014-2016, 125 of them died. That’s a 70-percent mortality rate!

Once carcasses were located and hides recovered, the researchers set to work counting ticks, one four-inch square at a time. The average calf that died of winter tick infestation had about 47,000 ticks on it!

Adult cows higher, one of which had about 120,000 ticks! And I have heard rumors that the numbers have only gotten worse in the past two years.

The ticks, which latch onto the moose

and deer hair divers, but you can’t go wrong with anything big and flashy – silver, red and white and green are always my favorite.

In terms of color selection, choose any colors that match the local baitfish. So if yellow perch are around, use yellow and black. If you know the water holds white suckers, try to match those colors.

In the author’s opinion, springtime is the best time to go fly fishing for pike.

well too, and • Big flies, such as pike bunnies, deceivers

Tactics Pike like cover, since hiding helps them ambush bait fish. Therefore, target weed beds and sunken logs.

Pike love to follow close behind your bait before striking, so as your

for the colder months and then drop off in the spring, cause several fatal issues for the moose. The most obvious issue is blood loss.

Additionally, in an attempt to rid themselves of the embedded creatures, moose will rub their hide raw, losing insulating hair and opening wounds. Anemia, combined with fatigue from deep snow, exposure to harsh elements, and higher susceptibility to disease, is a disaster for death.

Any Solution to Ticks?

What’s causing the increase in ticks?

Researchers and the department are placing blame on a changing climate of a longer, milder fall, which allows the ticks a longer period of time to attach to hosts instead of the ticks being killed by the cold.

This weather pattern hasn’t been consistent in recent years, though—especially not our most recent snow-filled fall.

Can researchers do anything to fix the problem? It seems the department is mostly gathering data and hoping for a natural fix.

It has been tossed around unofficially that perhaps the best (or only) thing to fix the depleted moose population is an even more drastic reduction in that same population.

fly gets close to the boat, look for a shadow of a pike that could be chasing your fly. If you see the big shape, slow down your presentation and let your fly sink to the bottom, and then pop it back up again.

I’ve even seen anglers do a figure 8 with their rod tip close to the water with a few feet of line out, to see if the fish will strike close to the boat. This is a strategy originally developed for catching musky, but it occasionally works for pike.

So remember – stay shallow, and try not to pull the fly away too soon.

If you see a fish attack your fly they often miss, so leaving your fly where it is will mimic a wounded minnow – easy pickings for a return pass by the big pike.

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This cow moose likely fell victim to anemia and exhaustion after being infested with winter ticks. It was one of a half-dozen different moose remains the writer found in the area.

The thinking, from my non-scientifically labored understanding, is that if the host population dies, then the un-hosted ticks will, too, expire.

In the meantime, NH Fish and Game has steadily reduced the number of moose hunting permits in the annual lottery. The odds of getting drawn now are even worse than the odds of a calf moose surviving an infestation of 50,000 winter ticks.

In other words, save your application money for Maine!

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Sportsman “I chased those poachers all the way through Calais,” radioed the young Warden to the dispatcher, “but they made it over the bridge and into St. Stephen, New Brunswick, so I broke off pursuit.”

“Why did you do that?” asked the dispatcher.

“Well,” explained the Warden, “New Brunswick is on Atlantic Savings Time, so those guys are an hour ahead of us – we’ll never catch them!”

••••••••••••••••••• The mathematician arrived home at 3 a.m.

“Why are you so late?” his wife yelled. “You said you’d be home at 11:45!”

“Actually,” he replied, “I said I’d be home at ‘a quarter of 12,’ and a quarter of 12, is 3.”

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A Warden stopped a man driving a truck down the woods road. Looking at the man’s driver’s license, he saw that the man was required to wear glasses.

“I am giving you a ticket for driving with uncorrected vision,” he told the driver.

“But I have contacts!” the man protested.

“I don’t care who you know,” replied the Warden, “I’m still giving you a ticket!”

••••••••••••••••••• “Do you realize,” said the Warden to the snowmobiler, “that your wife fell off the back of your sled about two miles back?”

“Thank goodness!” responded the snowmobiler. “I thought I had gone deaf!”

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Q: Where does the General keep his armies?

A: In his “sleevies.”

••••••••••••••••••• Teacher: “Does anyone know why firefighters bring Dalmatians along on the trucks with them?”

Little Johnny: “To help them find the hydrants?”

••••••••••••••••••• At the daily briefing, the Greenville police chief passed out a photo of a fugitive from justice.

“The suspect was last seen,” explained the chief, “wearing a brown paper hat, a brown

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paper shirt, brown paper pants and brown paper shoes.”

“What’s he wanted for?” asked a patrol office.

“Well, rustling, of course!” responded the chief.

••••••••••••••••••• “I got my Dad the perfect gift for Father’s Day,” said Little Johnny to his friend. “A refrigerator!”

“Do you think he’ll like it?” asked his friend.

“Yes,” explained Johnny. “When he opens it, I think his face is really gonna light up!”

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RANGELEY - NEAT AS A PIN North Woods ranch on private 2+ wooded acres offers comfortable floor plan all on one level! Featuring open kitchen/living area with electric viewing stove, dining area with entry onto rear deck, 2 spacious bedrooms, plus 2 finished bonus rooms, workshop, wood stove, wood storage in the full basement. Detached 2-car garage with sled drive through door in rear, ITS snowmobile trail access from your yard.

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SOLON - This is the sportsman retreat you have been looking for!

Great camp with one bedroom and loft sleeping area finished in pine. Sit by the woodstove after a day in the woods or a day on the trails. There is a kitchen with propane refrigerator and stove for camp meals and a screened in porch to sit and relax. The Longley Road is the snowmobile trail in the winter so you can hop right on from your front door. This surveyed 84 acres is wooded with a bog in the rear of the property and hunting blind that has been producing successful deer hunts for years. Make an appointment to see this property before it is gone. MLS #1350453 - $89,900 THE FORKS PLANTATION (MOXIE POND) - Cottage on Moxie Pond with approximately 0.83 acres of land. Three bedrooms with 2 lofts, kitchen/living room. Public gravel road, direct vent heater with approximately 119 feet frontage on the pond. Enjoy fishing from your dock. The perfect “getaway” spot for you. MLS #1239553 - $119,900 KINGSBURY PLT - Outdoor opportunities galore await you with this beautiful, spacious camp on 5 private acres in the Kingsbury countryside. Just a short drive to Kingsbury pond with thousands of acres of wilderness at your doorstep. Enjoy many of the comforts of home in this three-bedroom camp with an indoor bathroom, drilled well, and solar powered lights. Call today to schedule a showing. MLS #1311417 - $74,000 MOSCOW - Life on the lake! Cozy cottage with 90 feet of deep water frontage and year round access on Wyman Lake. Enjoy the pristine waters of one of Maine’s most beautiful lakes. This two bedroom one bathroom cottage is truly a rare find. Enjoy a full kitchen, dining area with wood stove, and a living room with views of the water. Nice gravel beach with easy access for swimming, fishing, canoeing, or kayaking only a few feet from your front porch. If you are looking for a vacation home, this is it!

MLS #1356167 - $119,000 WELLINGTON - COME AND ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS! This turn-key camp comes fully furnished with solar powered lights, gas heater, and nice wood stove. Camp features a spacious great room with 2 couches and a beautiful coffee table. Kitchen is well-appointed with nice gas stove. Two upstairs bedrooms fully equipped with 5 beds and a “carry-in water” shower in the upstairs hallway.

Solar system comes complete with PV panel, a power inverter, and 4 batteries. Camp also has a nice porch and an 8x8 storage shed. This camp sits on 9.9 well-wooded and private acres that includes 822 feet of frontage on Meadow Brook. This is a must see for anyone who loves the outdoors. MLS #1354507 - $67,000 HARTLAND - Here is your chance to own 8.65 acres of land on Great Moose Lake. 200.12 feet frontage just waiting for your home or camp. This is a most beautiful lake that is great for fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and ice fishing. Beautiful Great Moose Pond is a 3,584 acre body of water and boasts some of the best Trout, Salmon and Small Mouth Bass fishing in the area. MLS #1329144 - $79,000 CORNVILLE - Beautiful 2 acre building lot in the Cornville countryside. Enjoy privacy at the end of the road. Gorgeous frontage on Wesserunsett Stream. MLS #1359380 - $25,000 EUSTIS - 158 acres with your own private pond! Approximately 3000 feet around the pond. Great spot for a private home or camp setting. Snowmobiling, 4-wheeling, hunting and fishing paradise.

Currently in tree growth for tax purposes (23007Hb003). MLS #1235550 - $145,000 EMBDEN - Approximately 50.5 Acres of land wiwth about 1,900 feet frontage on the Fahi Pond Road.

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Lee - Originally an 1875 farmhouse, additional rooms have been added.

Wired for solar/generator, could be year round home or cabin only 5 minutes to town on Thurlow Road.

Great recreational opportunities are at your fingertips. $54,900

Macwahoc - Ready to use open floor plan camp, loft, generator included, sited next to little pond, fish or hunt Molunkus Stream, easily accessible, low taxes, 4.2+/- acres on Smith Rd. $34,500 Reduced to $29,900

Winn - Perfect lot for a house or camp.

Year around access with available electricity. Mattakeunk Stream frontage, close to ATV/snowmobile trails, 4-season club, the Mattawamkeag Wilderness Park, hunting and fishing. Priced to Sell!! $10,000

Lakeville - Easily accessible 13.1 acre lot, driveway, gravel pad and some clearing complete, extremely private lot, low taxes, just build a cabin to fish and boat on Upper Pug Lake. $49,000

T3R1 - Private 1.9 acre lot, driveway, seasonal road, ATV and snowmobile trail access, other lakes close by, convenient to Lincoln’s amenities, owner financing, 228’ frontage on Bill Green Pond. $24,500

Lincoln - Nice 1.77+/- and 2.78+/- acre lots with 240’+/- of water frontage, driveway already in place, electricity available and owner financing. Enjoy these waterfront lots with 800 acres of water to play on and snowmobile trails for winter fun on Long Pond. $89,000 Reduced to $59,900.

T3 R1 - 1.56 and 2.51 acre lots, Bill Green Pond access from 2 common lots, ATV/snowmobile trail access, close to other lakes, driveways installed, owner financing, seasonal access on Sylvan Way. $10,000 each Lincoln - Nice lot mostly field with 551 feet of road frontage and 4.5 acres.

This lot is waiting for that new home.

You will not find many like this one right on Main Street, call today! $18,000 Macwahoc Plt - Nice lot with 440 feet of year round frontage. The lot has a well and septic system and has been used to set up two campers on it.

Great lot and area right on Kingman Road. $17,900 Burlington - 20 acres of wooded ground. A nice location on a seasonal road. Close to lake and only a few minutes to the local general store on Burlington Beach Road. Park your camper here- build a camp- or just bring the little woman out for a picnic. $15,000

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