2014 SAF Maine High School State Championship will be held in Orrington for the first time. Brewer Lake will be the location. The state championship is a two-person team event for students in grades 9-12. Registration for anglers and their “coach,” who will provide the boat they compete in, is online at HighSchoolFishing.org. Check-in is […]
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Rules released to reduce whale entanglement
PORTLAND — Federal officials are releasing new regulations for commercial fishermen designed to reduce the number of whales caught in fishing gear off the Atlantic states. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the regulations Thursday. NOAA officials say the measures focus on reducing the number of vertical lines in areas where whales are the […]
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Fishery council asking feds to increase haddock limit
PORTLAND — The New England Fishery Management Council is asking the federal government to consider allowing fishermen to catch more haddock in the Gulf of Maine this year. The council voted Wednesday to ask the National Marine Fisheries Service to raise the haddock catch limit for the 2014 fishing year. The fishing year began May 1 […]
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Outdoors in Maine: ‘Retriever’ a special fly
Trust me on this. I am not one to jump to the conclusion that a fly is a “killer fly” just because it happens to bring me a few fish to the boat. In fact, in all the years of writing about fishing, only a couple of flies that I can recall got any of […]
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Warden service finds body of fisherman
RAINBOW TOWNSHIP — The Maine Warden Service has recovered the body of a 60-year-old man who failed to contact his wife while he was alone on a fishing trip. Game wardens began searching for Roland Mayhew of Hampden after he didn’t call his wife on Wednesday, two days after he began a trip to local […]
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Regulators to consider next Maine shrimp season
PORTLAND (AP) — Federal regulators will hold a meeting in New Hampshire to consider whether there will be a commercial fishing season for northern shrimp in 2014-15. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission scrapped the shrimp season in the Gulf of Maine for 2013-14 for the first time in more than 30 years, after shrimp […]
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Photos: Maine anglers catch some great shots of trout
Where volunteers are needed: Locate the ponds that are part of the 2014 brook trout survey on an online map and see the list of what ponds need volunteers to conduct the survey. Tracking down Maine’s brook trout: State gets a hand counting thriving brook trout population Like they say” The native brook trout is a beautiful […]
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State offers free fishing this weekend
AUGUSTA — Officials are encouraging fishing novices to try their hand at it this weekend for free. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says anyone can fish on Maine’s waterways without a license on Saturday and Sunday. Free fishing is allowed for everyone except people whose license has been revoked or suspended. The department […]
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Tracking down Maine’s brook trout
State gets a hand counting thriving brook trout population On one thing just about everyone agrees: The native brook trout is one beautiful fish. “It’s really a jewel,” said Chandler Woodcock, commissioner of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. “When you see them in their fall colors, it’s just breathtaking.” Native brook trout were […]
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Survey project depends on volunteers
What do anglers like almost as much as catching fish? That’s an easy one: looking for fish. And so it is that, in its fourth year, the Brook Trout Survey Project has signed up 850 volunteers, of which more than 200 have actually made it into the field, surveying ponds where brook trout seem likely […]