BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 4, 2024
Mya Wolfinger, 8, of Shapleigh has been working on her goal of catching Maine’s seven major game fish in the salmon family since she was 4 years old. She caught a brook trout and a brown trout in a tributary of the Saco River when she was 4. Her father Justin Wolfinger planted the idea for her to catch a landlocked salmon and the other trout species found in Maine. Mya caught a rainbow trout when she was 5. Then she caught a splake. This year she caught a landlocked salmon, lake trout and most recently, an Arctic charr or blueback trout. Her salmon, brown trout and lake trout were all in the 18-19-inch range. The only fish in the salmon family native to Maine she hasn’t caught is a whitefish, which she has in her sights.