A pleasant winter day with less than a foot of snow on the ground and about eight inches of ice on the lake. Just cold enough to keep the snow light and fluffy a make following tracks interesting. Argy and I went for a hike on Fernalds Neck in Camden. Most of the land in the center of Megunticook Lake is part of that preserve. When guiding fishing trips on that lake I spend a lot of time looking those shores.

One of interesting parts of being a guide that folks know is being asked for your opinion on a variety of outdoor topics. One of the recent requests was from the Bangor Daily News asking what things I keep in my vehicle in the winter. I drafted the response below and was surprised this week to see it as a full page in the winter 2015 BDN Outdoors magazine.

The days are short so the beginning and end of my days are in the dark. Yesterday morning as I came out of the garage in the dark and I caught something small rushing out of the door ahead of me. My first thought was oh no a rat! As I walked out and the light came on there it was a small white rocket with striking black eyes. An ermine, or really a weasel turned white for the winter.