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By V. Paul Reynolds Covid preoccupations notwithstanding, this past year in Maine was unusual in more ways than one.

By V. Paul Reynolds Over the years, Maine’s moose harvest numbers have varied from fall to fall.

By V. Paul Reynolds For many Maine winters, weekend camping and ice fishing trips to my favorite North Woods lake helped pass the dark months and brought immeasurable fun and memories for me and my family.

By V. Paul Reynolds Somebody said that statistics don’t lie, but statisticians do.

By V. Paul Reynolds The Wild West had its collection of fast guns that are part of legend: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Pat Garrett to name a few.

Recently, on my Sunday night radio program, Maine Outdoors, my show co-host and fishing buddy Bob Leeman stirred up a piscatorial hornet’s nest. Leeman, a knowledgeable and confident sort, especially when the subject is fish or fishing, got us on the subject of the spawning habits of native Maine fish.

June is the cruelest month in Maine Contributed • May 11, 2021 By V. Paul Reynolds Before Covid, and the mandatory wearing of the cussed masks and all of the state-imposed protocols, April used to be the cruelest month in Maine, as T. By V. Paul Reynolds Before Covid, and the mandatory wearing of the cussed masks and all of the state-imposed protocols, April used to be the cruelest month in Maine, as T.S. Eliot understood. It was the cruelest month because, after a long, unrelenting w...

Maine doesn’t need additional gun control Contributed • April 20, 2021 By V. Paul Reynolds Maine hunters of every stripe — who pay little or no attention to the Biden-era efforts to erode Second Amendment gun rights — do so at the peril of their hunting heritage. By V. Paul Reynolds Maine hunters of every stripe — who pay little or no attention to the Biden-era efforts to erode Second Amendment gun rights — do so at the peril of their hunting heritage. In a recent address to...

Hot Dog Heaven can be found on a frozen Maine lake Contributed • March 2, 2021 By V. Paul Reynolds My late father, desperate for work during the Great Depression, toiled in a hot dog factory. By V. Paul Reynolds My late father, desperate for work during the Great Depression, toiled in a hot dog factory. He would never eat a hot dog. “You wouldn’t either,” he said, “if you knew what they were made of.”  Things, including the  Great American Hot Dog, do evolve, I guess. A mo...

Maine moose lottery application process is open Contributed • February 23, 2021 By V. Paul Reynolds In the annals of North American big game hunting, nothing, in my opinion, – not even a Rocky Mountain Colorado elk hunt – eclipses a Maine  moose hunt in the North Woods. By V. Paul Reynolds In the annals of North American big game hunting, nothing, in my opinion, – not even a Rocky Mountain Colorado elk hunt – eclipses a Maine  moose hunt in the North Woods. Having done both,...