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About a Guide: Jonathan Gardner

We are continuing our regular series of stories getting to know Maine Guides and this month we’ll meet Jonathan Gardner, a shipwright at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Recreation and Fishing Guide, Outdoor Educator, and Parent. Jonathan joined MWGO in 2020 and has recently become the chair of our Education Committee. You can look forward to Jonathan’s…
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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…
