Monthly Archives: December 2014

We’ll never hunt on Sundays in Maine

  We’ll never hunt on Sundays in Maine. On April 25, 2011, the legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee unanimously killed LD 910, sponsored by Rep. Stacey Fitts, a bill that would have authorized landowners to hunt on their own land on Sundays. It was the best Sunday hunting bill of that session, and the […]

Ice Shack Raffle Promises Better Fishing

You may win an amazing ice fishing shack. And you will definitely contribute to an improvement in Maine’s fishery. Raffle tickets are $10 each or three for $20, and the lucky winner gets a very creatively constructed ice shack. All who buy tickets contribute to the good work of Maine’s Fishery Improvement Network (FIN). “There […]

Correcting PETA’s Myths About Deer

On Friday morning, November 18, 2011, I nearly choked on my breakfast cereal when I opened my morning newspaper and saw, spread all across the top of the op-ed page, a diatribe against deer hunters by Paula Moore of PETA, a radical national animal rights organization. Given the fact that Maine sportsmen just spent more […]