SUN JOURNAL • November 26, 2022
Bass have purportedly been discovered in Maine’s fabled and premier trout water, the Rapid River. As you might imagine, bucket stockers are as elusive and ghost-like as the controversial mountain lion in Maine. They just don’t get caught or convicted. A recent caller on my Sunday night radio program, Maine Outdoors, reported that bait fish, which he did not stock, showed up in his new farm pond. His theory is that waterfowl, herons and the like are transporting fish eggs on their feet from other bodies of water. Interesting theory, and one that I had never heard from either fisheries biologists or waterfowl experts. ~ V. Paul Reynolds