Author: Judy Harrison, Troy R. Bennett

Worthing’s Smelt Camps in Randolph had three of its 81 shacks on the Kennebec River on Friday. The ice was good that day, but there were ice jams and too much water in the river, so owner Jim Worthing wasn’t renting out his camps. Worthing blames the 1999 Augusta dam removal for the ice jams. The river has been unpredictable ever since, and it has ruined his business, he said. He has had shacks for 53 years. The James Eddy Smelt Fishing camps in Dresden on the Eastern River will not be open at all this year, Sharon Eddy said…