If you had to make a guess, what would you say are the three most popular, or sought after, freshwater fish in Maine? There is an answer, a clear, unequivocal answer to this question, and it is not based on guesswork or cracker barrel sessions with sport fishermen. It is an authoritative answer arrived at […]
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Suppression program has coyotes on the run
Finally it can be said. The statewide effort to control Maine’s major deer predator – the coyote – is working. This is very good news! Coyote numbers have been excessive and the predators have been doing a number on wintering deer, already hard pressed by population drops, deep snows and prolonged cold spells. A two-pronged […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Amendment may not be ‘silver bullet,’ but it would be well worth it
The stark fact that the Humane Society of the United States has announced its intentions to make another run at banning bear hunting in Maine, as early as next year, ought to be triggering alarm bells, not just in rural Maine and urban Maine, but in the legislative halls in Augusta. Earlier this month, two […]
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Outdoors in Maine: The wild turkey outlook
When it comes to Maine sportsman and wild turkeys, there are two distinct groups: those who hunt ’em and those who hate ’em. Count me among the former. Having hunted them with a shotgun and a bow, it’s beyond me why anyone who loves to hunt is not enjoying this spring opportunity. There is a […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Simplifying Maine’s fishing rules a good place to start
Some of us fish to get away from it all, to escape from all of the trappings of modernity. And let’s face it, in this new century we are awash in rules and regulations. Sport fishing has not been immune to the times, either. In far too many cases, the fishing law book is a […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Escaping winter with stone crabs
In the Florida Keys, comfortably removed from one of the worst winters New England has known, there are plenty of diversions beyond watching the weather channel and enjoying the plentiful sun-drenched days, ocean breezes and soaring birds. My son-in-law, Jacques, and I have taken up stone crabbing. Stone crabs are a delicacy — an expensive […]
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Sugaring time is sweet time of year
“Maple Syrup” I remember coming to the farm in March in sugaring time, as a small boy. He carried the pails of sap, sixteen-quart buckets, dangling from each end of a wooden yoke that lay across his shoulders, and emptied them into a vat in the saphouse where fire burned day and night for a […]
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No patience or respect for Humane Society’s tenacity
The following history is important because it defines our enemy. In 2004, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) tried to use Maine’s citizen referendum process as a mechanism to ban bear hunting. Maine citizens, in a statewide vote, rejected the ban. Then in 2014, in an act of incredible arrogance and breathtaking audacity, […]
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Corn belongs on the cob not in your gas tank
Corn is OK in its place. It’s great on the cob with salt and butter. Corn makes a good chowder when mixed with potatoes, onions and heavy cream. It’s also good for fattening up our Western beef critters. But mixing it with gasoline is just plain dumb — even if it makes the Green Movement […]
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Augusta like a three-ring circus that never stops
When it comes to prospective new state laws related to hunting and fishing, state lawmakers are one step ahead of Barnum and Bailey. There is a stack of bills, some worthy of discussion, some transparently self-serving, and a few just plain silly, if you ask me. Here are some of them. You decide into which […]