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Best Moose Guns

BY Tom Kelly   Well, it finally happened! I have finally been fortunate enough to have been chosen for a moose permit. It is to be an antlerless permit in Zone 4 at the end of October. I have guided hunters on moose hunts. I hunted with Hal Blood when I was producing the S&W … Continued

Moose Hunt Preparation

By Homer Spit Question: What’s more exciting than winning a million dollars in Power Ball? Answer: Winning a moose hunting permit in the Maine Moose Lottery. If you are one of the lucky 2,080 moose permit winners for 2017, a word to the wise: plan ahead for your fall hunt. I mean REALLY plan ahead. … Continued

First Deer Contest Winner

WINNER OF MY FIRST DEER CONTEST!!! My First Deer To my chagrin, as the blast reverberated, the whitetail whirled and vanished. While I attempted to conceal my disappointment, we thoroughly inspected the doe’s initial position. Editor’s note: This is the winning entry in Northwoods Sporting Journal’s My First Deer Contest. This winner will receive $100.00 … Continued

The Big Eddy Drifter

By V. Paul Reynolds Izaak Walton in his iconic angling book, The Compleat Angler, made the observation that even if you spend a lifetime casting flies upon the water, fishing and fish behavior can never be “fully learnt.” Persistence and patience will not deliver full mastery of angling success and a total understanding of trout … Continued

Accessing Stripers

By Al Raychard If you want to fish for striped bass this season there are a couple things to keep in mind. As with all types of fishing, be it freshwater or saltwater and whether fishing quiet back bays and small tidal creeks and estuaries with a fly rod and flies or hitting the beach … Continued

Living with Grizzlies

By Polly Mahoney I lived amongst grizzlies for many years and have a very healthy respect for them! The first ones I was around was when I worked at big game trophy hunting camps. I used to see them commonly when I was alone in the wee hours of the morning either on foot with … Continued

Light at Grand Lake Stream

      BY John Tozer The sun rises slowly over Grand Lake Stream in June and July. Not dramatic, just steady, a thin line of light behind the spruce, pushing the chill back one degree at a time. The water was already very low this spring, and the lack of significant rain means low … Continued

Yukon Yearning

By Polly Mahoney Growing up in Maine, I had no interest in being inside especially the kitchen! When I was starting my life in the far north in northern BC and the Yukon I was drawn to the mountains and wanted to spend as much time as I could in the bush. When the opportunity … Continued

Green Drake Finale

By Homer Spit A Hex, or if your Latin is good, a Hexagenia limbata, is a bomber-size Mayfly that shows up on Maine trout ponds in mid-summer, usually early July. For a trout, they area turkey dinner with all the fixin’s – a chance to get the most amount of food for the least amount … Continued

Fishing the Belgrades

by Dennis Bolduc Ever since I was a kid growing up in Waterville, fishing in the Belgrades was a topic I heard often. Unfortunately, my family did little to none when it came to fishing. I was very fortunate to have lived next door to some great neighbors who always took the time to take … Continued

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"Good morning, I have to write this…because your magazine deserves it.  Every couple last winters my family has gone up to Maine after Christmas for a couple days.  This always coincides with a stop at KTP, where I buy a copy of your magazine. Well, this Christmas I asked my kids for one gift, a subscription to NWSJ. I’m 57 years old, I grew up cutting and chopping cords of wood every year for my family’s two vermont castings stoves, and fishing and hunting extensively. especially loved tying my own flies and selling them in my local Connecticut hardware store when I was 12.  When not doing those things I was salivating over field and stream, outdoor life, fin and feather, you understand…those were great mags, but I don’t like how they’ve changed over the years…they’re selling to the masses now, not to who I think is their core audience. You guys are different, and good different.  You’re old school.  You actually do not care what people think of what you’re writing, and that reeks of important values like HONESTY, COMMON SENSE, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND KNOWLEDGE. Your articles are SO good that I refuse to read more than one at a time.  no joke; I leave each issue open on my kitchen table, and read one article a day.  Why? Because every single article is fantastic!  I don’t want to ruin the digestion of the last one by reading the next one too quickly…yes, you guys are that good. So here it is, my first feedback; you have the best outdoor magazine I have ever read..and will continue to read it till I can’t read. "

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I had also enjoyed the mountain and knife-edge trail twice when I was in my late 40s - early 50s. It’s an unbelievably beautiful environment. The quiet is God-like. Thanks very much. Keep up the great reading. I look forward every month to the Sporting Journal."

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