No matter who or what you are, stealing sometimes can be costly. I received this photo in my email in box with little explanation other than the person saying the photo was taken by Sharon Barker. I failed to come up with any verification or identity of the suggested author of the photo.

Needless to say, I thought the photo was worth sharing. If anyone has any proof of where this was taken and by whom or details about it, please share in the comments section below.

Tom Remington

Here’s another photo of a “Whatzit”. Some of you I know will know what it is and others probably have never seen anything like it before in your life. I can tell you that I believe, if this photo was taken where I think it was, my Great-Grandfather sat upon that thing.

Milt Inman took the photo and sends along this hint: “Down South neverbe; Up North usetobe”

Tom Remington

Tom Remington

J.J. Tabor of Thibodaux landed the below picture grouper from his secret fishing hole in the Gulf of Mexico. It weighed 359 pounds and he caught it in 400 feet of water. Tabor says he guesses the fish is around 33 years old but is sending an inner ear bone for testing.

The world record for grouper is 436 pounds and 12 ounces caught in 1985 off the coast of Florida.

Tom Remington

I have a series of 17 photographs that arrived in my inbox the other day. The title said it was a Canadian National Railroad train stuck in the snow in Northern Maine. I think it looks like Northern Maine, I believe it looks like a CN train and I know that white stuff is snow.

For obvious reasons I didn’t post all the pictures on this page. Click this link and view the entire gallery of 17 photos.

Tom Remington

These are pretty remarkable photographs of which I have very little information. Can’t find anything on Snopes or Truth or Fiction. This is the caption that came with the photos.

“This is Brooks Falls just upstream from where the Brooks River flows into Naknek Lake in the Katami National Monument, Alaska. Have you ever seen a Wolf fish for salmon?”

Real? Photo Shopped? Got any info?

Tom Remington

Tom Remington

By Milt Inman
Milt Inman is chief photographer for Skinny Moose Media and U.S. Hunting Today.

Some days ago, I was at a body of water taking photos of anything that looked interesting to me. I got pictures of birds, animals, reptiles, flowers, landscapes and people. Then I saw a man standing up in a boat move into a cove near me. I wondered what he was looking for. He was not fishing as near as I could tell but every once in a while he would throw something out in the water that would land with a soft whispering sound and disappear into the water.

After a few minutes, he pulled on a rope and hauled a mess of white stuff into the boat, shook it out and threw some things back into the water, which in turn were gobbled up by a large bird that followed the boat around.

Now this happened over and over again, so I thought he must be fishing with a net of some kind. I am from the state of Maine where net fishing like this is not legal and being in Florida seeing this done is all new to me.

I was told by some natives that this way of fishing was called Net Casting and the big bird was a pelican.

It takes a lot of time and practice to be able spread this large net out and land it flat on the water. A beautiful sight to see. Thats why I call it “THE ART OF NET CASTING!”

Milt Inman

Self-made millionaire Roxanne Quimby, who recently sold her last shares of her company Burt’s Bees and has been on a mission to buy up a lot of northern Maine land, also continues to block access to that land, most often prohibiting hunting, trapping and fishing. While completely legal to close her own land, the acts have left many Mainers angry.

Last year the state of Maine secretly negotiated a land swap deal that would give the state a 6,000-acre piece of land that included Lake Katahdin near Baxter State Park. Part of the deal divided the land into two segments. The lower segment included Katahdin Lake and about 4,000 acres which was made part of Baxter State Park and has very limited access. The northern parcel of about 2,000 acres is now being managed by the Maine Department of Conservation and is open to everyone – although now that Quimby has further blocked access, Mainers now have no real way to get to that land, used by some for hunting.

That deal angered many of us who were willing to look beyond the pretty piece of land and see the lopsided swap arrangement, the limited access and the many problems that would face Maine residents owning land next to Quimby. Also at issue was whether or not Quimby was involved in those secret negotiations that some of us believed would result in more land closures and virtually no access to land owned by the state. Much of Quimby’s land is around the Baxter Park and Katahdin Lake parcels. Although denied by those involved, many of us thought that the MDOC and Quimby secretly negotiated land deals, all of which still remain unrevealed to the citizens of Maine.

Over the weekend, I received photographs from reader Steve Lane and a brief message that read as follows:

Well…..its official. Roxanne Quimby has blocked access to her land in the Katahdin Region. Here are the photos I took today when I tried to take my daughter to some of our traditional hunting spots.

The first picture, as Steve captioned it, is of the gate blocking the Kellogg Mountain Road.

The second picture shows the Sandy Stream access road now closed by water bars and huge boulders.

The third picture reveals signs limiting access to her “Nature Sanctuary”.

Tom Remington

Too often we hear about the great fishing in the west, eastern Canada, Alaska or down under but some of the best fishing can be found in the state of Maine as the below photos and captions attest.

Dennis Bolduc Photo – This picture was taken by Dennis’ brother-in-law, Don Bessey. They were fishing Wyman Lake in Bingham on Dennis’ birthday, June 11th, 2007. This beautiful rainbow trout was caught and released near the end of the day. It weighed 6.2 lbs and was 23 and a half inches long.

Dennis Bolduc Photo – This first picture was taken by Dennis on May 2nd, 2007. It is a 6 and a half pound ( 25 inches long ) landlocked salmon caught by Steve Day of Madison. It was caught in Sebago Lake.

Tom Remington

Back in June of this year, Steve Day of Madison, Maine took a day to fish the Upper Androscoggin River from Gilead to Bethel. He had no idea what lay in store for him that day.

State of Maine Record Rainbow Caught by Steve Day on Upper Andro

The Upper Andro area is a peaceful and tranquil area with great scenery and a diverse opportunity of fishing choices for all who come to try their luck.

On the morning of June 5th at approximately 9:30 a.m., I caught my second fish of the morning while throwing a white Zonker from my 9.6 ft spin rod. This huge Rainbow trout was one of 12 that I landed this day between Gilead and Bethel but I knew immediately that it was much bigger than what I expected to catch that day.

After a 15 minute fight including three long runs and several shorter ones, with a couple of jumps and cartwheels, the huge Rainbow was brought to hand. The length and girth of the fish was 24″ x 14.5″ and weighed in officially at 6.52 lbs. When it was officially weighed 9 hours later the huge Rainbow broke the record by a half pound.

Steve Day
Madison Me

Tom Remington

Kevin Emerson has been kind enough over the last couple of years to send along to me pictures and brief recaps of his annual family fishing trips to his father’s fishing lodge on Parmachenee Lake in Maine.

Over the weekend, Kevin sent me this year’s pictures and story to go along with them. I would like to share those with readers.

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Here are some pictures from our annual trip to Parmachenee Lake, Maine.

This year we spent ten days at my Dad’s lodge located on Parmachenee Lake in Oxford County. This year’s trek was full of first for our family.

We had two family members making their first trips to Maine. Our son-in-law James made his first trip to camp memorable by landing a beautiful 15 1/2″ brook trout in his final hour of fishing before heading home.

Our son Tim was married in March and his new bride, Brittany made her maiden voyage to camp. Brittany caught a nice 14 1/2″ salmon on her first night of fishing in Maine.

Tim also landed a beautiful 18″ landlocked salmon.

Our little girl Lacey (3) also caught her very first brook trout which she named Timmy Trout. We ate “Timmy” for breakfast the following morning with Lacey taking the final bite. Lacey
named every fish we didn’t catch and release. She came up with Sammy Salmon, Samantha
Salmon, Terri Trout, Tubby Trout to name just a few… She also enjoyed seeing many moose.

I managed to catch the biggest fish again this year, an 18 1/2″ salmon, but the biggest fish was the one I didn’t get in the boat. It was a huge salmon, about 25″ long that I hooked the last night of fishing. I got him up to the boat and could see the fly was precariously resting at the edge of his mouth. I managed to get the net under him and just as I started to lift it into the net he flopped out leaving only the fly tangled up in the net. Oh well, hopefully I’ll get another chance next year.

Kevin Emerson

Posted by Tom Remington