UPDATE: We can still save this bill! Click here to find out how you can help! The entire hunting, fishing, and sportsmen’s conservation community has been championing the Sportsmen’s Act of 2012, and while the bill had a lot of support going into the final vote in the U.S. Senate, partisan politics reared it’s ugly [...]
Maine Fishing
Should the Appalachian Trail Be Extended to the Gulf of Mexico?
The Appalachian Trail is perhaps the most famous hiking route on the East Coast, and some think that it needs an extension. The Trust for Public Land has started a campaign to buy up land along the Chattahoochee River to get the trail to the Gulf of Mexico. Currently, the 2,184-mile trail starts in Maine and ends in [...]
Sandy Snapshots: Superstorm Pummels East Coast
As Sandy moves westward, causing some major snow in West Virginia and dumping rain through the Great Lakes, people from Florida to Maine are dealing with cleanup, flooding, and no power. Here at GoFISHn headquarters, we lost power for most of the day yesterday, but escaped with no damage. But countless fishing piers, in Ocean [...]
Maine Ice Fishermen Facing Live Bait Ban?
As long as there have been fishermen there has been live bait. But, the Maine ice fishing community is facing a ban on bait, and there aren’t many who are happy about that. “I am afraid if this passes, you are going to see worse than bait fish in these waters. I don’t think anyone [...]
Does This Whale Know English?
This beluga whale might not be reciting the Gettysburg Address, but it was getting one step closer, as it could apparently mimmic the human voice, much like a parrot. According to National Geographic, for 30 years, a beluga whale lived at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego, Calif., and apparently it could mimmic [...]
In Maine, Poachers and Largemouth Bass are Biggest Problems
It’s not a stretch to think of poachers as being a huge problem for any fish and wildlife management task, but largemouth bass? That’s what Maine weekly newspaper, the Irregular (whose tagline is: “Serving the western mountains of Maine where the kids grow straight and tall and the women are all good looking”), is saying. According to their [...]
Orvis and Trout Unlimited to Open 1,000 Miles of New Trout Waters
Wild and native trout face a lot of obstacles, and Trout Unlimited and Orvis are trying to remove some of those barriers. Starting with Murphy Brook in Vermont and Tabor Brook in New Hampshire, both tributaries of the Connecticut River system, TU is overseeing the construction of reconnection projects on both streams thanks to funds raised and [...]
New Reality Show Featuring Maine Fisherman Premiers
Reality television has made people from the Jersey Shore, housewives, and aspiring musical artists famous. And the fishing industry isn’t far behind. And now there’s another fishing reality show to join the ranks of Deadliest Catch, Hillbilly Handfishing, and many others. The History Channel picked up the show, which features the lives and work of men [...]
Maine to Conduct Lottery for Valuable Eel-fishing Licenses
Elvers, a small eel that was once common in Maine, are growing increasingly popular among recreational fishermen. Maybe that’s because the fish fetch as much as $50 million annually, putting them behind only lobsters as Maine’s number-1 money fish. The fish are sold, typically, on the international market and are considered a delicacy in Asia. [...]
Are the Days of Brook Trout fishing in Maine Numbered?
When you think of Maine, if you’re a fisherman at least, you picture crystal clear streams full of stunningly beautiful native brook trout. Our grandchildren, however, might consider it a pike and smallmouth state. Invasive species such as carp, pike and bass pushing brook trout out of their natural habitats could have a big impact [...]
