Massachusetts and New Jersey have two of the largest fly fishing shows on the East Coast, despite the fact Maine has far and away the better trout waters. So it’s about time Vacationland got its own fly fishing show. And the folks putting on the first Maine Fly Fishing Show today in South Portland said […]
Deirdre Fleming
Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
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Collared and tracked
UNE students stalk gray squirrels to gather information.
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Club’s deer food plots thicken
A Rangeley group tries to grow the herd with two 4-acre thickets of specially developed clover.
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Class B Volleyball: Yarmouth shuts out Bucksport
After playing a schedule with many Class A teams, the Clippers rule Class B.
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Boys’ soccer: Falmouth denies Fryeburg
The No. 2 Yachtsmen get two late goals to secure a spot in the Western Class B final.
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In whose gymnasium will the banners hang?
Volleyball: Scarborough stands in Greely’s way in Class A, and Yarmouth faces Bucksport in Class B.
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Deirdre Fleming: Hunters’ breakfasts introduce youngsters to the sport
Before Trenton’s fire department began hosting the town’s annual hunters’ breakfast, hunters gathered at the local elementary school. That tradition ended with an ordinance against firearms in school, but the hunters’ breakfast tradition Down East lives on. In fact, while licenses that permit deer hunting in Maine have dropped the past decade from 231,888 in […]
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Greely seeks return to championship form
Volleyball: Another unbeaten season behind them, the Rangers now eye another state title.
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Deirdre Fleming: Moose-gut studies help determine population’s health
This fall, Maine wildlife biologists want the guts. For the second year, state biologists will be collecting cow moose gut piles — as many as they can get from the 750 hunters who have cow-only permits in northern Maine. The study is a new effort to determine the health of Maine’s moose population. And if […]
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Volleyball Notebook: Down East trips provide Clippers great experience
Yarmouth’s move to Class B this year has meant more games for the Clippers against Down East teams. But for fifth-year coach Jim Senecal, that’s not a problem. Even before this season, Senecal favored trips to that part of the state. For the past four years, a team trip to Eastern Maine has been the […]