Slow opening for elver season
The elver season opened with less than a bang on Friday. High waters and winter conditions marked the noon opening but it didn't keep fishermen away.
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The elver season opened with less than a bang on Friday. High waters and winter conditions marked the noon opening but it didn't keep fishermen away.
"I want to preface that tale with a warning: After all the rain we just had, Patten Stream is going to be — I think the best term is — crankin’."
SURRY — Mere days after winter’s final snowstorm, elver season opened at noon March 22, but the tide was high for stringing fyke nets and the water cold from snowmelt.
Stockton Springs elver fisherman Mel Grant said the Union River elver runs are so strong that he doesn’t bother stringing nets on the Penobscot River.
SURRY — Mere days after winter’s final snowstorm, elver season opened at noon March 22, but the tide was high for stringing fyke nets and the water cold from snow