Londynn Langley and her grandfather waited almost two hours in a ground blind approximately 30 yards from a bait site the family has been using for about nine years.
The winning fish for the Fort Kent International Muskie Derby broke the all-time record for the 22-year-old tournament, organizers said.
The public will be able to weigh in on proposed changes to fishing rules for some of Maine’s lakes and ponds during a hearing in July.
The names of those who were successful in getting a Maine moose hunting permit through the state’s lottery were read one at a time Saturday afternoon in Riverside Park in Fort Kent.
Ploye Festival revelers had begun Friday with kids games involving ployes — Acadian flatbreads made of buckwheat — and the cooking of the world’s largest ploye that night.
The Maine Bureau of Public Lands received permits in May 2023 to construct storage buildings at the Chamberlain, Churchill Dam and Michaud Farm ranger stations.
Darcie (Campbell) Ingraham, 25, and her brother Skyler Campbell, 21, both got their hunting grand slams this year, all while working full time.
There is snow in parts of western Maine, as well as in the western highlands and Allagash.
Courtney Levesque shot an eight-point buck weighing 211 pounds that catapulted her into the Big Buck Club for the first time.
State officials will use numbers to determine whether its first two-day youth hunt was a success, but the people at tagging stations who registered the kids’ deer see it as one now.
