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A Report from MWGO’s Canoe Poling Workshop
We met Lisa DeHart (https://www.3minutesmaineguide.com/) and her husband Jeff at the West Gardiner Rod and Gun Club at 8am. After some on land discussion of poling, pole styles, and what makes a good poling canoe, we piled into Lisa and Jeff’s trucks and headed to the Cobboseecontee Stream, about 5 minutes away. We unloaded the boats…
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Spring Training Starts Now!
The Sox are in Florida for their their Spring Training, but you don’t need to travel that far for your spring training! In fact, you don’t even need to travel at all for some training opportunities! That’s right, spring time means guides around the state are brushing off their non-winter gear and preparing for the…
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Maine Canoe Symposium 2023
By Jonathan Gardner, MWGO Board Member and Education Chair This year’s symposium will be remembered for April weather in June. After almost a week of 90-degree temps, the weather transitioned to the high 40’s with rain with a raw northeast breeze coming off Bryant Pond for Saturday and Sunday. The bugs were at bay as…
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Maine Canoe Symposium a Success
On June 12th, MWGO sponsored the 36th annual Maine Canoe Symposium, held for the second year at the University of Maine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center at Bryant Pond. The event was well attended with roughly half of attendees being MCS veterans and the other half were first-timers. A total of about 80 enthusiastic canoeists enjoyed the day developing paddling, poling,…
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Canoe Poling Class Hosted by MWGO
MWGO hosted a canoe poling class May 1 on the Bear River near its confluence with the Androscoggin River in Newry. We hope this will be an annual event. Canoe poling is a heritage skill rarely practiced these days; even many Guides are unfamiliar with the practice. But before there were outboard motors it was…
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