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About a Guide: Tomas Dundzila
This month, we continue our regular series of stories getting to know Maine Guides. As most know, Registered Maine Guides can be recreation guides, hunting guides, fishing guides, sea kayak guides, tidewater fishing guides, whitewater rafting guides, or some combination of the above. Additionally, a Maine Guide can be certified as a Master Guide in…
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About a Guide: Reid Anderson
This month, we start with our first installment of a regular series of stories getting to know Maine Guides. As most know, Registered Maine Guides can be recreation guides, hunting guides, fishing guides, sea kayak guides, tidewater fishing guides, whitewater rafting guides, or some combination of the above. Additionally, a Maine Guide can be certified 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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Polly Mahoney Honored With Legendary Maine Guide Award
Article and Photo Courtesy of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Polly Mahoney, a longtime guide from Newry, was recently honored by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife with the Wiggie Robinson Legendary Maine Guide Award. The award was presented by MDIFW Commissioner Judy Camuso at the annual Maine Professional Guides Association Banquet…
Maine Wilderness Guides Org.
An Association of Registered Maine Guides