Monthly Archives: January 2016
You’ll want to trout fish in all 25 of these places!
From the stunning photographs to the many details that can make your fishing trip easy and fun, Bob Mallard’s landed a trophy with his new book: 25 Best Towns – Fly Fishing For Trou, published by Stonefly Press. After a long career as a fly fisherman and fly shop owner, Bob has become a prolific […]
Relations between sportsmen and landowners getting new attention
A new Landowner Sportsmen Relations Advisory Board has been selected by DIF&W’s Commissioner, Chandler Woodcock, who greeted the group at its first meeting on January 22. The group has extraordinary authority and challenging issues. In the early 2000s, the legislature created the first Landowner Sportsmen Relations Advisory Board, and it took Governor John Baldacci two […]
Lions are roaring just up the road from my Mount Vernon home
When I go out to get the newspaper in the morning, I can hear the lions roaring. Must be feeding time at DEW Animal Haven, just a mile from my Mount Vernon home. The Haven is an amazing place, and is amazingly featured now in a series called Yankee Jungle on the Animal […]
What can you shoot and when can you shoot it? Part Two
Labrador is a brook trout angler’s dream – Photo Essay
Harvey and Betty Calden are veteran sporting camp owners who offer the very best in hospitality and outdoor experiences, focused on hunting and fishing. Tim Pond Camps in Eustis, Maine was always Betty’s project while Harvey focused on their camps in northern Quebec and Labrador. In August of 1999 I took my son Josh, when […]
Some provocative and interesting columns about Maine fisheries and wildlife
You need this unconventional-sawbuck if you harvest and/or prepare firewood
It’s an astonishing invention and you are going to want one. At the annual meeting of the Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine, I met brothers Charles Buzzell of Milo and Harold Buzzell of Smithfield, who had a booth at the event to promote several of Charlie’s products including the sawbuck. Both are retired but […]
Will Maine’s Constitution include a right to hunt?
Probably not. Last session the legislature rejected four Constitutional amendments submitted by sportsmen’s groups. Two would have prohibited citizen ballot initiatives on fisheries and wildlife issues. The other two sought to guarantee the right to hunt and fish. But a resolve was also enacted giving the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife an opportunity, this session, to […]
Sportsmen step up to support extending firearms background checks
Two accomplished and popular leaders of sportsmen have stepped up to support extension of background checks to all gun sales in Maine. Bucky Owen and Bill Vail, former Commissioners of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, will lead a group of sportsmen who support the initiative. At a Tuesday morning press conference, representatives of […]