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PublishedDecember 10, 2011
ON HUNTING: It’s redleg season
They come on whistling wings in the gray light of dawn, inundating the estuaries and rocky coastline from central Maine to Cape Cod. The redlegs are coming.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2011
SNOWMOBILING: Don’t forget safety as another season approaches
There are a number of things you can do to ensure that your first trip on the sled is a safe, legal and fun one.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2011
DEIRDRE FLEMING: Start the year with a hike
It's serendipitous that New Year's Day falls on a Sunday this year, given the Maine State Park's newly announced push to get folks outside and recreating on the first day of the year.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2011
FLY TYING: Tying it together
YARMOUTH -- Evelyn King has tied flies for more than 20 years. But two decades of hackle and bucktail doesn't guarantee the company and conversation you get in a fly tying class.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2011
ON HUNTING: Time to gear up for muzzleloader season
The regular firearms deer season is over, and for some it means the end of another hunting season. But many who still haven't filled their tags will put away the deer rifle and dust off the old smokepole for the two-week muzzleloader season.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2011
ALLEN AFIELD: Fast winter pollock fishing begins here and now
Even though it's looking like winter in this state, imagine fishing the Atlantic now and feeling confident of catching fish for dinner.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2011
FOR THE BIRDS: Welcome resource for tracking species
In the last column, I sang the praises of eBird, the website maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and National Audubon Society. This site serves as the depository for bird sightings from birders and ornithologists throughout North America and beyond.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2011
WHAT’S UP IN DECEMBER: 5 major planets will put on show
The winter solstice will arrive at exactly 12:30 a.m. Dec. 22. This marks the longest night of the year for us in the Northern Hemisphere as the sun reaches its lowest point in our sky. There are several interesting highlights in December if you can brave the cold weather.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2011
BOB HUMPHREY: Scents important too
In order to beat the whitetail deer you've got to have an edge. They're out there, in the woods 24/7. They are intimately familiar with their surroundings and well equipped for survival with their keen eyes, ears and noses. And it's that nose, more than anything, that will signal your presence more often than not. Fortunately, there are ways to counter that factor.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2011
KEN ALLEN: Black-powder shooting captures his soul
In the early 1980s, my mother and I bought my father a Thompson Center Hawken .50 caliber for Christmas, a percussion-cap muzzle-loader that looked like Robert Redford's rifle in the 1972 movie, Jeremiah Johnson.
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