Fishing Season is Close at Hand!  #36

For all you die hard fishing enthusiasts, you already know that fishing season begins on April 1^st. Now, I am well aware that there are parts of the State of Maine where the ice is out and you can commence to wetting a line. However, I live in Northern Maine and there is still an abundance of that stuff we all call snow on the ground. Not to mention that we have not yet been fully blessed with mud season. That being said, we watch and wait intently for the first signs of open water and then fishing season will begin. I was in a meeting the other day when someone asked me when fishing season began. A person sitting next to me piped up saying that it really did not begin for us until mid to late May. Now, not having that sit very well with me, I volunteered that the season began April 1 and I for one was going to try to get out there as soon as humanly possible. To that, the gentleman sitting next to me remarked, “He is a real diehard fisherman.”

By now, most of my flies have been tied and I have visited the “Candy Store” a number of times. For those of you that don’t know, we call Cabela’s in Scarborough, Maine the candy store because we all enjoy going in so much and there are so many neat things that you cannot, and I repeat, cannot leave there without buying something. Well, last week, I was out to prove that theory wrong so before I walked in, I made a pact with myself that I would just walk around and not buy anything. You know that back and forth head bobbing discussion where you answer yourself thing and you are always right and never challenged.  How did that work you might ask? I now own a new large arbor reel and extra spool along with new fly lines. It suffices to say, I failed.

 I leave you with a little something my dad sent me last week in an email. See, he reads all my blogs and knows that I can’t wait for fishing season to start. Once I saw it, I knew it fit me to a tee.

Also, the Presque Isle Fish and Game Club will be hosting their annual sportsman’s show in Presque Isle at the University of Maine Wieden Hall this coming April 6 and 7. It is always a good time with lots of exhibitors. If you are in the area, plan on stopping by.

I also leave you with a photo that was sent to me showing the Maine biologists checking in on our bear population. They look like they are doing just fine.