By Will Tuell

On a bright sunny day in late July, the last place you would expect to find a group of ten junior high school boys and girls is waiting for a school bus at 6:45 a.m. Yet, it was just such a day on July 24 when the very bus that delivers many of them and their friends to and from Elm Street School in East Machias during the school year rolled up to take the youths and their four chaperones on a mackerel fishing trip none will soon forget.