Ice Fishing, Bobcat Hunting, and the Upcoming Sportsman’s Show
Ice fishermen rejoice at warm weather, thick ice, and long days – a perfect way to wrap up the winter. We mark this optimistic season with a cover photo showing Yeti, our favorite pure-white Samoyed, accompanying his master on an auger-and-jig expedition on one of the region’s largest lakes.
And while you are enjoying the longer daylight, make plans to join 8,000 of your closest friends at the State of Maine Sportsman’s Show at the Augusta Civic Center, Friday through Sunday, March 27 – 29. Rick Labbe and The True North crew will be on hand, as well as Mr. Drew and his Animals, Too, and the First Annual Maine “Ride for a Cure” Invitational Cribbage Championship, happening on Sunday.
And inside the March issue, we’ve got shed antler hunting, by Nate Fenderson; Fly-Rod Crosby, by David A. Woodbury; Reader poll results and trends (p. 16); ratings of five Kennebec River-area smelt camps (Christi Elliott); and bobcat hunting, with Rick Labbe.
We also offer triple snowmobile coverage, from Retired Lt. Warden Doug Tibbetts, Monson riderGlenn Poole, and veteran writer Steve Carpenteri.
This month we celebrate Maine’s successful moose hunters, listing the names – and showing some of the trophy photos – of the newest members of the Maine Sportsman Moose Patch Club.
Neil Pendleton tells how he earned his place in the Biggest Bucks in Maine Club. Our “Shooter’s Bench” columnist, Col. JC Allard, focuses on the Winchester Model 94 – “the Gun that Won Maine.” And Bill Sheldon covers coyote hunting in the Jackman region.
Columnist Ethan Emerson (p. 67), whose family has a hunting camp near the Magalloway, wonders aloud about conservation organizations that purchase land and then impose strict new hunting rules.
All this, plus the best jokes and cartoons north of East Waterford, and south of West Paris.
See you at the State of Maine Sportsman’s Show!
