BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 4, 2020
Last week, I saw the light. Honestly, I did. Thanks to a longtime angler with a boat and a plan (and plenty of accumulated knowledge), I learned that catching American shad was simple. Easy, even. Then, on Tuesday, I headed to my own home river to try out the lessons I’d learned from Willie Grenier. Caught bottom. Snarled my leader. Never caught a thing. Back to the drawing board.