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RANGELEY — Members of the Native Fish Coalition will be the guest speakers at the October Rangeley Region Guides & Sportsman’s Association meeting. The meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 18, at the clubhouse on Old Skiway Road in Oquossoc.
The potluck dinner will start at 5:30 p.m. The program will begin after a brief business meeting. Bob Mallard and Emily Bastian of Native Fish Coalition will discuss Maine’s State Heritage Fish waters.
Mallard will talk about state heritage lakes and ponds, a national treasure that provide excellent fishing for wild native brook trout. The 578 legally designated waters throughout the state contain self-sustaining populations of brook trout or arctic charr that have never been stocked or have not been stocked in at least 25 years.
Mooselookmeguntic Lake is one of them, along with many other lakes and ponds in the Rangeley Lakes Region.
Mallard is author of several books, as well as national NFC vice chairman, Maine board member and founding member of the organization, publisher, Northeast regional editor and a regular contributor for Fly Fish America magazine.
Bastian is a founding member and chairwoman of the Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition, and will provide a summary of NFC’s State Heritage Fish informational sign initiative, an ongoing volunteer effort co-sponsored by Sportman’s Alliance of Maine and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, with the goal of posting signs on all the state’s legally designated State Heritage Fish waters.
The initiative aims to help protect these ecologically, economically, socially and recreationally important resource by trying to prevent the introduction of invasive fish species.
The public is always welcome to attend RRG&SA monthly meetings and programs. For more information, visit www.rangeleyoutdoors.com.
