September 2006 Almanac
This Month: Check Out All These Hunting and Fishing Dates
“Try to remember the kind of September/When life was slow and oh/ so mellow,” Harry Belafonte crooned in the 1950s, and most people living in Maine thought for sure he was thinking of this state when he sang it. These days, though, life is anything but slow paced in pine-tree land.
The last day of the general fishing season ends Sept. 30, and all month long, folks who think fall fishing produces solitude haven’t fished the Roach, Kennebago or East Outlet of the Kennebec in recent years.
We still have hundreds of waters open in October and November, but many options close on Sept. 30.
Northern brookie ponds cool in the ninth month, and action picks up for startlingly colorful trout.