Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
-
PublishedFebruary 11, 2012
Leading the way
AVON — With a makeshift air gun fashioned with duct tape and a gas engine on a home-rigged backpack, the biologists with the Department of Marine Resources laughed as they blasted holes for hatchery eggs into a rocky tributary of the Sandy. But their work could be a part of a long-sought Atlantic salmon solution.
-
PublishedFebruary 11, 2012
OUTDOORS: He’s planning for the future, including winning a tying contest
Seventh-grader Sam Kenney of Dixmont is heading to Pennsylvania to compete today, but not for a traveling basketball or hockey team. The 12-year-old is going to the Pennsylvania Fly Tying Championship.
-
PublishedFebruary 4, 2012
The trail less traveled
EAST ORLAND — For more than a decade, Peter Kenney of Bar Harbor has been trying to grow the sport of snowshoe racing in eastern Maine.
-
PublishedFebruary 4, 2012
DEIRDRE FLEMING: Quality of ice fishing really depends on your locale
Based on reports by state fisheries biologists this winter, the ice fishing season is either going great or hardly going.
-
PublishedFebruary 2, 2012
Sebago ice-fishing derby canceled for lack of ice
The big prize of $100,000 for anyone who breaks the 54-year-old state record for togue now applies to all lakes around Maine on March 3 and 4.
-
PublishedJanuary 31, 2012
Moose lottery odds improve for non-winners
Moose hunting is an annual tradition that’s uniquely Maine, one in which families plan trips that will create stories told for generations. Yet some Maine hunters have walked away empty-handed from every state-sponsored lottery for moose hunting permits.
-
PublishedJanuary 31, 2012
New moose hunt lottery will favor past losers
Moose hunting is an annual tradition that’s uniquely Maine, one in which families plan trips that will create stories told for generations. Yet some Maine hunters have walked away empty-handed from every state-sponsored lottery for moose hunting permits.
-
PublishedJanuary 28, 2012
OUTDOORS: ‘The Baxter Line’
MILLINOCKET — It took a half dozen questions, first with the reverend, then the carpenter, next the restaurant owner. Finally, the name for this peculiar phenomenon that takes place in a parking lot in Millinocket every January came clear.
-
PublishedJanuary 28, 2012
DEIRDRE FLEMING: If you’re on the Baxter Line, you join a special group
This is part inside story and part full disclosure, and while I’m at it, I should say that in 20 years of journalism, I have never looked to personally benefit from a story.
-
PublishedJanuary 21, 2012
Fly Fishing Gets Cold
KENNEBUNK — Dan Dykstra couldn’t wait to wade into the cold water of the Mousam River. So he asked fellow fisherman Kevin McKay to pull over for a taste of the brown trout fishery after they drove down from Bangor earlier this month. And didn’t the Old Town fisherman get into a mess of brown trout?
- ← Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 75
- Next Page →