Mainers love brook trout, and in fact, in different surveys through the decades, brookies reign as this state’s No. 1 target species. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIF&W) conducts some of the polls and sees other ones, and officials in this agency answered the call.

When I was 5 years old, my mother dragged me into the woods 10 to 14 days before Christmas to cut a tree for the living room. In those years, she was more anxious than her son to put up a holiday evergreen, an ancient custom passed down from pagan cultures before Christ’s birth. While […]

Deer hunters get one more chance.

deer success If a hunter’s yardstick for success means tagging a deer most falls but that plan usually fails, then the following tactic may improve the odds. Ideally, this new approach begins with preseason scouting to find deer trails with heavy daylight traffic as opposed to strictly night use. Then, the hunter places a tree […]