North Maine Woods, Saturday

[Dean Romig]

Where in the North Maine Woods were you Russell? I know the area and in fact I think I recognize one of the spruce trees behind you.

That's a real pretty setter there. I have pictures of one named Ginger from long ago that looks so much like that one.





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[stumpstalker]

gee Dean, it’s not that I don’t owe ya, but giving away my guide’s covers….I’m even self-conscious when riding in his truck to pay much attention to the topo map or MAINE ATLAS and GAZETTEER; it just doesn’t seem cricket. (Not that for safety reasons-only, you see, I don’t file away mentally where we might be; heck, there may come an emergency, or something.)

I just can’t shake the story I was told about the legendary Cape Cod Striped Bass guide, who noticed that whenever he got his Diesel-powered 35-footer into a productive tide-rip, the client disappeared below – just when the action was getting hot. The mate went down into the cabin to see what the client was doing and found him entering latitude and longitude numbers into his hand-held GPS.

OK, in the interests of broadening the knowledge of PGCA Members and Forum Associates: the trees you see are of a Christmas tree farm, incongruously right in the middle of the North Maine Woods, where the norm, in contrast, is cultivating and logging off timber for milled wood products. It is all at the confluence of the Aroostook; Allagash and Machias River watersheds.

For further info. on his guide services; dogs and kennels contact Dave Mosher, Registered Maine Guide, via his website: https://sugarfootguideservice.com.

below see photo of Dave on our June 2019 fishing trip, impairing his health; and another of the 80-year-old, with a full pack basket.

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Russell E. Cleary

. The mate went down into the cabin to see what the client was doing and found him entering latitude and longitude numbers into his hand-held GPS.

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For 20 years I kept my Wasque 32 in Lake Tashmoo(not a lake), and would take the kids out for blues and bass in Buzzards Bay, and Nantucket Sound. There was often a guy at the town dock who would ask where we got such nice fish. I pointed to a polished, round head #8 Brass screw in the cockpit combing and said "right there".

As an aside, Loran C, that went the way of the buggy whip in the early part of the century, was a reliable technology, that lacked the weakness of GPS. It was improved upon by eLoran, and that is finally being revisited in the 2018 DHS bill. GPS is easy and simple, but way to easy to disrupt, if not entirely disable.

real radios glow in the dark