Each year about this time, the Maine Warden Service urges us to use extreme caution before venturing out onto any ice that may be covering Maine’s waterways. This is timely advice. Last winter three night-time snowsledders all perished in one night on Rangeley Lake when they and their machines broke through thin ice. Many of […]

Sportsmen love their toys. Of course, they prefer to consider these toys as indispensable tools for the outdoors. Sometimes the best gift one can give to an outdoorsman is a tool or device that he might not either think to buy for himself or feel comfortable buying. For example, my mother­in­law always had an uncanny […]

At long last, the Maine deer are coming back! On opening day, my wife Diane saw six does in our new hunting area. According to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIF&W), all of the anecdotal evidence and scientific wildlife management indices underscore the good news. It has been a long time coming. […]

It’s a warm, rainy morning here at my new home on Branch Lake. Foggy, too. A scud layer is moving in from the nearby coast and the once-bright foliage has begun to fade. It would be a good day to still hunt deer, to sneak silently through a cedar bog, but deer season is still […]

Most sportsman who have spent much time trying to find good places to hunt or fish have experienced bad roads. I mean really bad roads. I have seen my fair share. Their memory doesn’t keep me awake at night, but some of the worst roads left an impression. Back in the 1970s, when I was […]