Mothers Day is our annual trip to the fish ladder in Damariscotta Mills to see the alewife run. For those of you that do not know alewives are a river herring that return to many of our local rivers to spawn each spring. They are about a foot long and silvery. It has been a Mother’s day tradition for us since the boys were born that includes a late lunch out, usually in Damariscotta.
Last winter and early this spring part of my role as the Executive Director of the Maine Professional Guides Association had me working on the fishing part of the Maine Office or Tourism website. Part of that effort has me working closely with Mac McKeever from LL Bean. Mac grew up in Camden and has a great love for smallmouth bass fishing.
Our oldest son Noah is in his senior year at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. The college requires every student to do a senior project and Noah’s includes visiting and photographing mountain ranges on both sides of the country. He has been to the Chic Chocs on the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec, Mount Washington in New Hampshire (actually skied Tuckerman’s Ravine) and is now in the Tetons in Wyoming.
