Western Maine
 

Made it up to Maine for a quick trip. The weather had been lousy with three days of rain but today it broke. I got out around 8am and the fog was just starting to lift, temp was about 40 when I got there and climbed through the morning. Several spots already had trucks parked at them so it took a little bit to find one that wasn’t hunted already. I walked a couple miles of logging roads but no action. I figured the birds were still drying out. I went to another spot and walked the road edge for a few hundred yards then my dog got a little birdy so I followed her into some thin growth and after about 15 minutes one bird flushed but I couldn’t get a shot. We walked down another old logging trail into a gulley and boom, about 6 birds flushed from some spruce. I could only get a shot on one but I was happy. It was a nice day.

Fog lifting.

I’m over in eastern Maine 40 miles north of Houlton and a mile from the Canadian border. These guides really know where the grouse and woodcock are and they’re not on the logging roads… they’re in the slash and where there’s food like wild apples and high bush cranberries.





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Sorry. The pictures are all messed up. I can’t figure out why they are turned sideways.

I’m going to try to get up there again in a couple weeks and try some areas around Rangely.

I was in Downeast Maine last week. Few woodcock, but by far more grouse than the past few years. It was DRY and crunchy and warm then the last day it poured non stop all day, so a lost day without more than a mudbat or two. Heading North again this Sunday, north central maine.

We had woodcock everywhere in eastern Maine.
Thank goodness for the woodcock for without them we would have had very little activity on the grouse. They were there but only 1/4 the number of woodcock we saw.





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