Maine has some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the US. We literally have hundreds of lakes and ponds with thriving populations of smallmouth bass, and many of them see hardly any fishing pressure. The Downeast region is probably the best-known area for traveling anglers to journey in pursuit of smallmouth bass. And lakes like Spednick, Junior, Rocky, East Grand and the Grand Falls Flowage all have well-deserved reputations as consistent producers of quality fishing. But
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Maine Has World-Class Smallmouth Bass Fishing
Monday, September 5th, 2011Preliminary 2010 Deer Harvest Numbers Show Increase
Monday, March 14th, 2011Preliminary 2010 Deer Harvest Numbers Show Increase
Augusta, Maine – Preliminary deer harvest numbers show an increase of 11 percent from the 2009 harvest with an initial tally of 20,063 deer taken by hunters.
“The winter of 2010 ranked as one of the mildest winters in the past 60 years, a stark contrast to the terrible back-to-back winters of 2008 and 2009,” according to MDIF&W Deer Biologist Lee Kantar. “The 2010 winter certainly provided a much-needed break to deer and explains
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March Madness: Late Season Ice Fishing
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011This has been a tough year for ice fishermen so far. The weight from all the snow we’ve had has produced lots of slush and tough traveling conditions on many lakes around the state. And it seems like many weekends have been bitter cold or snowy. Hopefully, the second-half of the ice fishing season will be more user-friendly.
The ice fishing season on most Maine lakes opens January 1, so by the time March rolls around, many of the traditional hotspots have been fished fairly hard. In
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Fall Fishing
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010People are creatures of habit and generations of Mainers have been raised to put away their fishing rods (and get out their shotguns) when the calendar turns to October. Fact is, some our best cold-water fishing occurs from the time when the open-water season traditionally ended (Sept 30) until things freeze up sometime in December. In the past ten years, the folks at Inland Fisheries have put lots of effort into fall stocking and now actively promote extended seasons on many fisheries
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Pre-Plan Increases Odds of Bringing Whitetail Home
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009Posted by David R. Knightly, Jr., Registered Maine Guide
The firearms season for whitetail deer is fast approaching and with it will come thousands of hopeful sportsmen and women like yourself with dreams of encountering and taking one of those large-bodied, heavy-racked bucks famous in Maine. Unfortunately, the odds are against most as hunter success rates in the Northeast states average around 17 percent to 22 percent annually. The reasons for the lack of success are numerous and
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