Yesterday while waiting at the Thomaston public landing for my afternoon striper fishing party I saw something that I had only seen once before. An osprey dove and successfully caught a herring. While he was flying off with his prize an eagle appeared and began to harass the osprey. For several minutes it was quite a display of aerial ability with the more maneuverable osprey seeming to be able to avoid but not escape the eagle. After repeated dives from the eagle and an equal number of successful rolls twists and dives. The osprey gave up and let go of the fish.
Several people had mentioned to me that they had seen my picture in the Northwoods Sporting Journal this month. I had no idea whether I was really in or not. I knew that I had not been interviewed but thought that maybe I had been mentioned for being involved in some outdoor issue and an old picture placed with the story. Or perhaps I had been at a hearing or meeting this winter and simply got into the background of a picture.
Capt. Barry Gibson writes each month about saltwater fishing in Maine in the Maine Sportsman, one of the two major monthly outdoor publications in our state. Barry attended the public hearing on the proposal that would have brought a saltwater fishing license to Maine. The opposition was significant and offered a variety of good reasons not to implement the proposal at this time. From the Sportsman article ”Well known Master Maine Guide, Capt. Don Kleiner of Warren (yes he got the town wrong) opposed the license as well and made an excellent point.
