While most of the wild trout waters featured in Bob Mallard’s book, Squaretail, are in Maine and throughout our country, he does tell you about his fishing adventure on the little Minipi River in Labrador. That story brought back a wonderful memory I have of fishing the Little Minipi with my 16-year-old son Joshua. That […]
Linda and I have been avid birders for about 20 years, but I wish we had started much earlier than that. Checking out the birds adds to every trip and outdoor adventure. We started when a friend of Linda’s was birding in our yard. It turns out, because we’re surrounded by water and woods, that […]
Charlotte Crowder’s new children’s book, A Fine Orange Bucket, published by North Country Press, features a lobsterman whose orange bucket is washed into the sea and lost. It’s a great story that every child will enjoy. Jill Finson’s colorful drawings are very special too. About a year after it’s lost, the bucket is discovered by […]
DIFW fisheries biologists think that catch and release is hurting our fish. Deirdre Fleming’s story about this, in the Maine Sunday Telegram on August 11, was very provocative. Deirdre wrote: The widespread practice of catch-and-release in waters across Maine has thrown many ecosystems off balance, creating a vicious cycle; an overabundance of fish that leads […]
A friend who likes to fish a western Maine lake recently told me that the lake has more than two dozen loons and the loons are chasing anglers around the lake, grabbing their brook trout after they are hooked. The lake is only about a mile long so it seems very unusual to have that […]
Maine’s bear population has increased significantly in the last few years and is now estimated to be 35,000. The Fish and Wildlife Department considered several strategies to increase the annual harvest, and discussed them with the legislatures Fish and Wildlife Committee, but any decision was postponed until next year. The research has become important because […]
Heather H.J. Emerson has written and illustrated a wonderful series of children’s books featuring Silkie Sunshine, an awesome chicken, and important messages for our children. Heather knows what she’s writing about because in addition to working in her local public school as a special education and behavioral health professional, she and her husband Randy have […]
Last year Bob, from the DEW wild animal kingdom a mile from our house in Mount Vernon, picked up 286 dead deer, killed in collisions with motor vehicles on the roads within one hour of Mount Vernon. Bob feeds the deer to his lions. Yes, lots of wild animals are killed by motor vehicles on […]
Here’s another favorite column, written a few years after we bought our camp. As I cast a Brown Wulff to a Sourdahunk Lake brook trout that had risen about 40 feet from the boat, I was startled by a shout from young Joshua at the other end of the boat. “I got […]
If you like brook trout, you’ll want a copy of the book Squaretail by Bob Mallard. And if you are not a brook trout angler, I guarantee you will be after you read this book. Bob lives in Skowhegan, writes for national publications, and has fished in more than 100 fabulous places all over North […]
