Ice fishing

As winter is coming and it is coming soon. We had snow fall last night the 23rd of October. While most see the snow as the time where there is no more fishing and you need to take invntory for next year. What winter really means is ice fishing. The concept of ice fishing is cut a hole in the ice and drop a line in it. Ice fishing is the lazy way to fish. Just like regular fishing you need to have patients but I think you need more. The weather makes it extra annoying to be waiting. The wind is cold and with the wind getting the channeled by the lake sides and the ice of the lake. At the end of the day you always end up with a wind burn and if its sunny sun burn. That might seem weird for a winter day. For those who live down south or those who haven't seen snow, winter is when the worst sunburns happen. The snow is the best reflector of sunlight.

David Boucher

David was a long time supporter and member of the Maine fisheries and wildlife department. He was awarded the highest honor the Anderson Award. He was awarded this posthumously. "Dave began his career as a student research assistant for IFW while he was at the University of Maine in the early 1980s. After short stints at IFW’s Palermo Fish Hatchery and the Department of Environmental Protection, Dave was hired as an assistant regional fisheries biologist in the Belgrade Lakes Region in 1988, where he worked until he transferred to the Rangeley Lakes region in 1995.

In his 17 years in the Rangeley Lakes region, Dave became well known for protecting and enhancing the area’s trout and salmon fisheries. In 2006, he coauthored “Maine Landlocked Salmon: Life History, Ecology and Management.” During that time, Dave also directed the fisheries dive team, and was the Department’s lead researcher on landlocked salmon."(source: Department of Inland Fisheries and wildlife)