As fall progresses the amount of color in the leaves changes almost daily and peak foliage is a fleeting moment at best. Over the last week the color has come steadily and we have gone from a red tree here and there to maybe a quarter of the trees in bright color. 
This picture was taken at the beginning of the week from the boat launch on Seven Tree pond in Union.
October means grouse hunters for me and a lot of running for the dogs. One of the challenges in late September is always clearing enough time in my day to do a little walking in the woods with each dog. I have been managing to squeeze in a couple of hours here and there over the last few weeks.
I’ve been fishing Seven Tree, Round and White Oak ponds quite a bit this season. A pike was taken through the ice last winter and the regional biologists reported a couple in North Pond a little further down river last fall. Consequently I have been watching pretty closely to see if any more would show up this summer. Every pickerel was getting a careful look over to be sure it was not a pike. I guess that I did not need to watch so closely. This afternoon a pike of seven pounds and twenty nine inches was caught on light spinning gear by one of my clients.
