The weeks, or months, (or, in many cases, years) of waiting are nearly over. On Saturday, hundreds of Mainers and vacationers “from away” will gather in the western mountains to find out if they’ve won a coveted permit that allows them to take part in the 2012 moose hunt. And I’m happy to tell you […]
Jasper Walsh of Newburgh joined me on Sunday for the 10th annual BDN Outdoors drift boat trip down the East Outlet of the Kennebec River. More details to follow later this week; after a busy 15 hour day that began at 5 a.m., when Jasper and I headed to Greenville, and just wrapped upon our […]
Last week I received an email that would have been commonplace just five years ago: It showed a smiling youngster holding a small striped bass, which he caught in the Penobscot River between Bangor and Brewer. Alas, things have not gone well for the striper fishery over the past half decade, in Maine as a […]
Before I bash you over the head with the admittedly heavy-handed message of this column, I’ll give you a few moments to enjoy the beautiful photos that accompany it. Everyone loves a good critter photo, after all. And when the critter in question is a beautiful baby deer, all the better. In the photos, you’ll […]
How do I say this delicately? Hmm. Here goes: I get a lot of … um … odd phone calls at work. One time, I had a lady call and ask me what kind of critter had been prowling around behind her house the night before. Disclaimer: I wasn’t there. I had no idea. But […]
In other places, folks might call their summer abodes “cabins” or “cottages.” Here in Maine, many of us simply call ‘em “camps.” Big or small, rustic or more refined, they’re just camps. If you’ve been around these parts for more than a summer or two, you know that Mainers love their camps. Heck, comedian Bob […]
Ideally, we’d do all of our fishing out of spotless, shiny boats with motors that always start on the first try, or while standing in the middle of a beautiful river, clad in brand new, high-end waders — or at least in waders that don’t leak. Alas, that’s not how it works. We’re Mainers. We […]
