The weather outside might be frightful, but the articles inside the January issue of The Maine Sportsman are delightful.
This month features our annual special fly fishing section and in the lead article you will get expert advice how to cast further and with accuracy. Long distance casting will help all your fly fishing, but it you want to fly fish in the salt, it is crucial.
We’ve got all sorts of great tips on how to and where-to go ice fishing this months, but the article that really caught our attention tells you all about East Grand Lake’s jumbo lake trout.
You know we are always featuring outstanding hunting and fishing accomplishments in the pages of The Maine Sportsman and the January issue continues that tradition. You find an article and photo that shows how the new state record was set for taking a bull moose with bow and arrow. Oh, and you’ll discover this demanding record was set using a primitive long bow, instead of a modern compound.
Add to all that our usual mix of columns written by the best crew of Maine Outdoor Experts ever assembled between two pages. Whether you want to learn how to tie a fly or where to fill a bucket with delicious crappies, you’ll find it in The Maine Sportsman.
Posted on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 by Maine Sportsman Categories:General Tags:January 2010 Issue
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Posted on Sunday, November 29th, 2009 by Maine Sportsman Categories:General
–December Offers Rest, Or Intense Activity, The Choice Is Yours–
True baby boomers born in 1946 remember when December passed as the lazy man’s month for outdoors activities. During December, from World War II to the early 1970s, the hunting, fishing and outdoors life in general passed slowly for folks who found this month a grand time to eat leisurely meals with fruits from the forests and water or, better yet, for many of them to sit in kitchens with friends while telling stories of past hunts and fishing successes and failures. It was indeed an unhurried time before the holidays when women did the lion’s share of Christmas shopping and other domestic chores.
Here’s a quick snapshot of outdoor pursuits in those years: • Ice-fishing for trout and salmon didn’t start until Feb. 1. • Coyotes didn’t arrive in full force until the 1970s, so no one hunted this wild canine until at least then, and many didn’t get the idea of sitting and calling on field edges until the 1980s. • The fallen price of fox fur pretty much had ended hunting this canine then, often done with a trusty fox hound in those days. • Coastal winter smelting attracted a handful of folks, but it didn’t hit full swing until the mid or late 1970s when entrepreneurs started smelting businesses in places such as Bowdoinham and Dresden. • Muzzle-loading for December deer started in the early 1980s. • Rabbit hunting was indeed as popular as it is now, maybe a little more, but serious hare enthusiasts needed to invest in a hound or two. Many folks lacked this commitment – then and now. • Snowmobilers got out as soon as snow flew around their homes, but traveling north for sledding would develop in the 1980s. • Serious photography started in the 1970s with the advent of big box stores selling discount SLR 35mm cameras and all the lenses and filters. Shooting color transparencies really took off then because box stores sold a 36-exposure roll of slides for a tad more than $1 and charged about $2 to develop them. Folks could burn lots of film – and did – at that price. Read the rest of this entry »
December … the leaves have fallen; with luck, you’ve got your deer; the snow is likely to stay.
Time to turn your attentions to ice fishing! The Maine Sportsman focuses its attentions to angling in winter with “how-to”, “where-to” information on catching togue, pickerel, perch and bass.
Muzzleloading enthusiasts will want to check out our section on black powder bucks — tips and techniques that will help you bag a trophy buck!
Winter in Maine means snowmobiling, too. We help you get ready for another great season of sledding with a number of articles, including one focused on women in snowmobiling!
Winter is a great time to get outdoors. So pick up your copy of The Maine Sportsman at your local newsstand or subscribe today.
The weather outside might be frightful, but the articles inside the January issue of The Maine Sportsman are delightful.
December … the leaves have fallen; with luck, you’ve got your deer; the snow is likely to stay.