They even crowned a Shrimp Princess!

A group of fun-loving Boothbay Region High School seniors showed up before the start of school on Tuesday, May 31 dressed in oil skins and toting a barrel of bait. As a class prank, the group then held a Fishermen’s Festival bait shoveling contest in the traffic circle in front of the school. A group of underclassmen stood on the front steps of the school, laughing at the shenanigans and cheering on the contestants.

Within minutes, BRHS Principal Dan Welch came out of the school to announce that the first classes were about to start. He walked over to the seniors’ “competition area” with a smile on his face. He asked where they got the fish and “ring leaders” and senior fishermen Matthew Burnham and Sherm Brewer told him it was “their lobster bait.”

Presumably — though the Register wasn’t able to witness it — the seniors also held a Fishermen’s Festival codfish race around the school during locker break.

Boothbay Harbor Police Officer Larry Brown, who was directing traffic at the school entrance during the bait shoveling, said it was a fun morning for the kids.

“I would rather see them doing that than out doing something illegal,” said Brown. “This senior class is one of the nicest classes I’ve been involved with.”

Oh, and the unofficial 2016 Miss Shrimp Princess was Genevieve Taylor. But I don’t think you’ll see her in the upcoming Windjammer Days parade! But, don’t count this class out!