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June 2012 Almanac 16 May 2012 | 07:55 am
June Means Fishing in Maine Sure, Maine’s outdoors folks have a jillion options now, no exaggeration, because this state’s outdoors offers diversions that many folks have never heard of – say fishing ...
June 2012 Issue 16 May 2012 | 07:40 am
One of the primary directions we give to columnists who write the regional columns in The Maine Sportsman is to give you lots of specific information about where to fish and techniques that work....
May 2012 Almanac 18 Apr 2012 | 02:49 am
May Changes Dramatically From Beginning to End In the 1990s, an annual phenomenon proved quite consistent. May 1 would kick off with no black flies, but by the May 4 or 5, they’d start swarming. Turke...
May 2012 Issue 18 Apr 2012 | 02:08 am
You could call May a challenging month for the average Maine sportsman, challenging because there are so many different activities to choose from. What will it be for you? How about rising before dawn...
April 2012 Almanac 20 Mar 2012 | 04:10 am
Snow and Ice No Deterrent, Or Is It? Dozens of times in this writer’s life, April Fool’s Day began well before daylight – an early start to get to one of the few fishing hotspots in the state. Back th...
April 2012 Issue 20 Mar 2012 | 03:41 am
Every year, the April issue of The Maine Sportsman brings a little extra excitement with it, because it contains the trout and salmon stocking list for the entire state. Just looking over the list to ...
March 2012 Almanac 15 Feb 2012 | 06:51 am
Here Come the First Timid Steps of Spring! Each March in the South Country, the month begins like winter, though astute observers notice a hint of spring on morning breezes. By mid-March, though, spri...
March 2012 Issue 15 Feb 2012 | 06:05 am
Perhaps you’ve got it into your head that March is an “in-between” month for sportsmen, with nothing much to do in the great outdoors. If that’s what you think, reading this month’s issue of The Maine...
February 2012 Almanac 19 Jan 2012 | 06:29 am
February Offers Superb Winter Fun, But We Pine for Spring On Dec. 22 during the winter solstice, we had less than nine hours between sunrise and sunset, but by Feb. 1, 40 short days later, that time e...
February 2012 Issue 19 Jan 2012 | 05:54 am
Is Maine having trouble with deer numbers in the northern and eastern parts of the state? Sure is. Are there still plenty of big bucks roaming the hills and valleys of the Pine Tree State? Absolutel...