I just happen to have a copy of the F&G rules right here beside me...
There are two exceptions to the hour before sunrise and two hours after sunset rule for trout:
1. Ammonoosic R. (Littleton to Bath) Brown Trout may be taken 24hrs a day.
2. Androscoggin R. (Dummer to Berlin) Brown Trouy may be taken 24hrs a day.
I know in Maine you can take at least Brown Trout 24hrs a day on most rivers, but I'm not sure about lakes and ponds or other species.
So Keith, if young T Bone is fishing the Pemi 2 .1 hours after sunset, Heide has his bacon right? I spose he could try lieing his way out saying he's pout fishing though I don't see her buying that story.
If he does not have any trout in possesion then he can slide through I reckon.
That would be my understanding. As long as he is not keeping the trout he would be free to fish for bass, pout, mermaids, or what have you. Since we next to never keep fish I would say that 90% of the time we would be unaffected by this rule. It would be nice to hear the official F&G rulling from the field. (So let me see young man; you are fly fishing with a salmon streamer, in a designated salmon/trout area but you say you are trying to catch bass?? Turn out your pockets and hold out your hands palm up....<SMACK!> )
Keith
We have to get a straight answer on this one before the lad ends up in deep sheeeeet! I don't see them sending him up the river to do hard time with "Bubba", but Danbury could be a real possibility. Fellow inmate: "Hey, what you in for man?" Our T Bone: "I got caught fondling a trout after hours."
On a more serious note, I'd like to see him and any of our family members on here out of the Pemi say about a half hour before dark. Them rocks are slicker en barnowlshit and if a dunk happens in the dark, well we could find the cold corpse down at the dam in Franklin come mornin. That's if it don't get hung up on something on the trip down.
Worse yet, since all this global warming crap started we now have a sky full of buzzards circling around. I'm not up for havin my bones picked clean by them vultures for no fish.
If you're gonna fish in the dark do it the safe way like me and Karl Wester used to do for bass. We'd be in a 16 foot canoe with a cooler full of "Tall Boys" pitchin Jitterbugs out in the black of the night prayin we heard a splash so's we'd know the bug was in the water and not the trees. When of a sudden the gurglin stopped and a sound like a beaver slappin his tail happened it was yard up on the rod for all you were worth.
On the rare occasion that the friggen canoe flipped over on one of them vicious strikes it was a scramble to save the remaining Tall Boys before they sank
Hell, the water was only 3 or 4 feet deep and we could have waded the place but then we'd have been in an out of the water to fetch another cold one and all that spashin woulda skeered the fish And, we were mid 20's then
Cool. Thanks!
I'll be waiting.
T_Bone