There is a lot in the news this week about the beginning of the project to restore the Penobscot River with the removal of the Great Works Dam. Designed to help restore our native runs of Atlantic Salmon and other sea run fish. A word of caution, the track record of dam removal in Maine has not been good for recreational fisheries in spite of all of the promises and press releases.
Good news; the smallmouth bass do not seem to have been discouraged by all of the rain over the last few days. The Saint George is very high and running to 
hard to wade for a week or so I would guess. Yesterday I fished on one of the local lakes higher up in the headwaters hoping that the fish would still be in the late spring pattern.
When I am guiding a party I prefer to keep some distance from anyone else. Not that I am anti-social rather I feel that my clients deserve to experience the outdoors as personally as I can arrange it. If we are sharing a body of water, which is occasionally the case, I am inclined to keep distance from another boat or party.
