Deer Season in Maine

[jkfirefighter]

Well, deer season for Maine residents starts this coming Saturday. I'm extremely excited this year, as I had a really short season last year.

October 27, 2007 the season opener for Maine residents and I was tagged out by 8 a.m. with a nice fat 8 pointer. It was exciting, yet dissapointing at the same time due to the fact that I had waited all year long for my vacation. I had planned a week in the North Maine Woods in the Allagash I had everything packed and was all prepared. I never got to attend.

With the winter kill last year I don't think i'm going to plan on a trip that far north because of the low deer density. I was witness to the limited number of deer a couple of weeks ago when I went with my friend to Ross Lake Maine up near the Canadian border for a moose hunt. The moose and grouse were plentiful we got our limit of 4 birds a piece per day, got a medium 750 lb bull but after over 1,000 miles traveled on my truck and 6 days of driving the dirt roads I saw one single deer track (believe me I was looking). So to any of you planning a trip to northern Maine this year, you might want to put that off for another season, unless you can't get away from the fever.

Good luck to all, I hope you have a safe and successful deer season, it all ends too quickly. I hope some of you post your stories on here, I love reading them.

Jerod - Maine

[Brandon-K]

Good luck to you too, muzzle loading starts sat in NH!

[captcal]

Taking a week northwest maine. I believe W-NW of moosehead...

Its an annual trip for the guys and I got an invite. Personally it will
be good to get away.

Here's out in my own back yard. Got a nice little area out there with my
camera.

My buddy lives 2 streets down and we were out a week before last. Nice 4 pointer at 155lb dressed. Funny though. my buddy kept calling me and telling
me to look left. I didn't see him...

We got a solid 8 out there. I've run into him twice now in darkness on my
300 yard walk home to my door. Grunting at me like he was some pissed off.

got to shrink my pictures before I can upload them... One doe that standing there. One ?? behind her that I can make out. The does there had been in a threesome last week. 2 bucks and three does passing under us in one night.

When I get a picture of him tonight I'll post as soon as can download from
the camera. I hope...

[jnj]

I'm sure the Family that owns Ross will be thrilled with your post on Deer pop's this is one of the Bad things computers are used for.

[Brandon-K]

It dosn't look like a bad post to me, that info is readily available any where. Most hunter know of the bad winter last year and the high loss of the herd.

From seacoast online:

With the deer numbers down because last winter's deep snows, the state issued fewer permits to hunters to shoot antlerless deer during the 2008 season as part of a management strategy to help deer populations rebound from last winter. The state issued 51,850 any-deer permits for the season, a 23 percent reduction from last year.

Read it here.

If I was spending hard earned $$$$$$$, I would want to know what I was getting.

Its no different than a fishing report!

[jnj]

I guess I'm refering to Just nameing the camp . Hunting in northern Maine has been that way since they stopped snaring coyote's along with weather ,habitat loss etc, etc, We surely don't need any reminding that the Deer hunting is hard in the north..

[oddfish]

Just better bragging rights whan you get the deer. No worries.

OD

[Scunz]

I recall a deer trip I and 2 buddies took near Ellsworth around 20 years ago.......hired a guide who was the ex-president of the ME guides assoc......made great chowder and told good stories......but none of us even saw a tail running away from us for 7 days.....good lesson in doing solid research before hiring a guide......bumped into a couple of guys hunting the area at a bar one night as we were wrapping it up.....they said all 7 or so of them tagged out.......which means to me you absolutely need to know where the deer are in those big woods.......as a side note I was speaking to a bear guide in northern ME last year and he told me he wouldn't even take my money for a deer hunt up there and if any guide does he's ripping you off......just my .02 FWIW.

[oddfish]

Maybe we should start a deer import business from PA to ME, VT and Northern NH. We could train a bunch of coyoteys, as herd dogs, and drive them right down 84 up to 495 then push them up 16.Dr oppin' Bombs.



Oddfish

[jkfirefighter]

I apologise if you took it that I mentioned the name of the camps up there. I did not, ross lake is the name of the lake for short, it is really a much longer name....yes the name of the camps up there is ross lake camps, but I did not mention them. I apologise, i actually stayed at a friend of ours camp on ROSS LAKE. besides, i wouldn't want anyone to spend all of that money going up there without knowing what they're getting into first.