After a long gestation period, Minnow Mania has just opened in downtown Passamaquoddy. The town is ecstatic. The BassPass line is selling out by 10:30 in the morning and the standby line wraps all the way passed SandDollar Ella’s Castle. As one of the earliest riders I gotta tell you its all worth the wait. While I know its important to avoid spoiling the attraction for anyone, I have no moral compass so I’m ready, willing and able to spill all the beans.

When you first arrive at the Buoy Store, the first thing you notice is the whole thing has been redone… They painted the parking stones and hung fishing lures on the Lions Club sign by the entrance to the town. As you can tell, the theming is first rate.

As you enter the attraction queue, you realize that you are no longer in the real world… You have been shrunk down to the size of a small hermit crab. The queue winds in and out of an old tackle box. You walk around – and children play on – a giant bobber, giant rubber worms, and most enjoyable, rusty old fishing hooks, large enough to catch your clothing as you walk by. Several people have already been hospitalized! Very exciting.

But the highlight of teh queue has to be when you reach Grumpy “Old Man Tater”. Tater sits on a stool several feet before the attraction load-in and yells at everyone who is ‘misbehaving’. For anyone who knows Tater, he always thinks everyone is misbehaving. He shouts out things like “Whadya Doing! Get off Dat Ting!” “Kid in the blue hat, that chain ain’t a seat. You see a cushion?” He’s even gone so far as to remove his glass eye to frighten some people in line!

Finally, when you get to the ride vehicles, you sit in a long bench that holds four. They hand you an empty bucket and the ride rolls forward into the dark. In the first room you have too scoop your bucket in the water, and catch a load of minnows… You only have 30 seconds before they send you on to the first challenge!

There you’ll find yourself emerged into the world of the game.. This time, you stop in front of a frat house and several soberly challenged students charge at you and you must throw your freshly caight minnows into their open mouths!