Wiscasset waterfront: Lobster fisherman Terry Ashton
Terry Ashton holds onto the hoist as he moves from the deck of Top-Notch to a Wiscasset harbor dock Oct. 5. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Fishing buddies: Terry Ashton, Dace and Puck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Terry Ashton and Maria McGuiggan deal with the bait, pogies. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Dace catches some sun on the dock before the family’s lobster fishing trip. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Maria McGuiggan prepares to lower a load. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Terry Ashton receives a load for his boat Top Notch. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Time to leave. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Heading out. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset waterfront Oct. 5. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Terry Ashton holds onto the hoist as he moves from the deck of Top-Notch to a Wiscasset harbor dock Oct. 5. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Fishing buddies: Terry Ashton, Dace and Puck. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Terry Ashton and Maria McGuiggan deal with the bait, pogies. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Dace catches some sun on the dock before the family’s lobster fishing trip. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Maria McGuiggan prepares to lower a load. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Terry Ashton receives a load for his boat Top Notch. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Time to leave. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Heading out. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset waterfront Oct. 5. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
In Wiscasset harbor Saturday morning, the Wiscasset Newspaper found Terry Ashton, 44, of Wiscasset and Boothbay doing what he’s been doing since he was 11: Going fishing for lobster.
He used a skiff then; now, the 29-foot Osmond Top-Notch. His late father Charles Ashton had it built in 1994. On Saturday, as the frosty morning warmed into a sunny day, Terry Ashton’s girlfriend of 21 years, Maria Mcguiggan of Wiscasset, lowered loads of the bait, menhaden, or pogies, to Ashton on the dock.
The couple’s dogs, Dace and Puck, moved about dock, deck and ramp.
“It’s warm now,” Ashton observed as he and McGuiggan prepared to head out with the dogs to work on the water.
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