The Fisherman's Guide to Maine - Hardcover

Maine fishing guide, but the vintage kind: Earle Doucette on brook trout, landlocked salmon and where he found them, reissued from the original.

Good to know

This is a reprint of an older book, not a current handbook. Seasons, limits and access rules have all moved since it was written, so check with the state before you go.

What survives is the part that does not expire. Where the water is, what lives in it, and a writer who plainly spent his life standing in it.

Details

The first half is organised by species and the second by region, which is the right way round for anybody planning a trip rather than reading for pleasure.

Regional chapters cover the big northern waters and the eastern coast counties, with maps drawn for the original edition.

The reissue also commissioned a fresh introduction covering how the sport itself developed.

From the publisher

This is a vintage guide to fishing in and around Maine, America. It contains entertaining and informative anecdotes of the author's extensive personal experiences, as well as detailed descriptions and helpful advice complete with full page maps of the area.

Contents Include: "Part One: What to Catch and How to Catch Them - In General", "The Brook Trout", "The Landlocked Salmon", "Atlantic-Salmon", "Bass, Pickerel and Perch", "Salt-Water Fishing", "Part Two: Where to Catch Them - The St. John River-Fish River Lakes Region", "The Moosehead Lake-Katahdin Region", "The Rangeley Region", "The Washington County Region", etc.

Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of fishing.

More of the region in our northeast travel guides.