In the small Northwestern Colorado town of Maybell, the morning came on with low-lying dark clouds, rain and fog. For cow elk hunters, including Diane and myself, the nasty weather was a welcome respite from a week of too much sun and too much heat, even up high in the magnificent Danforth Hills. After a […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Missing persons cases never easy
Maine is a big place, especially its vast woodlands. If you don’t believe it, fly over northern Maine sometime. Even with its elaborate system of lumbering roads, the North Woods is a proverbial sea of fir thickets, hardwood ridges and meandering heaths and dead waters. Not to mention more than 5,000 lakes, ponds and thousands […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Grouse hunting days are upon us
Ahhh, October. Frosty mornings and flaming foliage. Grouse days are upon us. In Maine, next to whitetail deer, there is no other game species that draws as much attention in autumn from hunters, residents and nonresidents alike. Deservedly. Can you think of any other game bird that so challenges a gun dog and a shooter? […]
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Outdoors in Maine: No more chocolate for Yogi
We can all heave a huge sigh of relief. Finally, the live-free-or-die state neighboring New Hampshire has put in effect a new rule that bans the use of chocolate of any kind in bear baits. The new ban reads in part: “For the 2016 black bear baiting season and for all subsequent black […]
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Outdoors in Maine: This one is for the ‘Bread Ladies’
As you get on in years you’ll discover many new things about yourself — I mean besides wrinkled skin and age spots. Some things in your life take on a different perspective: food, for example. The question, “What’s for dinner?” seems more important than it might have been a few decades ago. So it only […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Which is Maine’s most popular sport fish?
If you had to make a guess, what would you say are the three most popular, or sought after, freshwater fish in Maine? There is an answer, a clear, unequivocal answer to this question, and it is not based on guesswork or cracker barrel sessions with sport fishermen. It is an authoritative answer arrived at […]
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Outdoors in Maine: One man’s (very short) bucket list
My son Scott put this question to me the other day, after he confirmed that I was, indeed, getting on in years: “Dad, what’s left on your bucket list?” I told him that life had been generous with me, especially with hunting and fishing adventures, and that there really wasn’t anything that I am burning […]
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Outdoors in Maine: The wild turkey outlook
When it comes to Maine sportsman and wild turkeys, there are two distinct groups: those who hunt ’em and those who hate ’em. Count me among the former. Having hunted them with a shotgun and a bow, it’s beyond me why anyone who loves to hunt is not enjoying this spring opportunity. There is a […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Simplifying Maine’s fishing rules a good place to start
Some of us fish to get away from it all, to escape from all of the trappings of modernity. And let’s face it, in this new century we are awash in rules and regulations. Sport fishing has not been immune to the times, either. In far too many cases, the fishing law book is a […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Escaping winter with stone crabs
In the Florida Keys, comfortably removed from one of the worst winters New England has known, there are plenty of diversions beyond watching the weather channel and enjoying the plentiful sun-drenched days, ocean breezes and soaring birds. My son-in-law, Jacques, and I have taken up stone crabbing. Stone crabs are a delicacy — an expensive […]