A rich fishing tradition continues year-round

A rich fishing tradition continues year-round (HM2CL1)

Location: Weston, ME 04424 Aroostook County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 44.249', W 67° 52.541'

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Guides, sport and fishing camps

of the old-time Down East angling experience is your Maine Guide frying up a mess of fish and potatoes over a campfire.
Skilled Outdoorsmen, independent, colorful characters: In the 1940's, Essie "Cast-a-Mean-Fly" Graham began running Mushy's Camp [built in 1902] year-round on East Grand Lake. Here [in top right photo], she holds a Landlocked Salmon.
Right, Trolling flies or "Streamers" tied by Tom Mutch who ran Greenland Cove Camp in the 1940's. His famous "A A" Special shown at top.
Pete "Barefoot" Spencer ran a camp at Greenland Cove in the 1940's.
[Bottom right photo captions read]
Rideouts' Lodge (right) started in the 1940's at Butterfield Landing, one of the first sporting camps on this side of the Lake. [Far] Right, Landlocked Salmon [sic - photo reads "String of Lake Trout (Togue)]
Fishing, anyone?
Most sporting camps, guides, outfitters, and some stores sell Maine hunting and fishing licences. Or online, visit:
www.maine.gov/IFW/license_permits/fishing.htm
or call 207-287-8000
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Date Added Monday, October 22nd, 2018 at 5:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)19T E 587469 N 5065495
Decimal Degrees45.73748333, -67.87568333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 44.249', W 67° 52.541'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 44' 14.94" N, 67° 52' 32.46" W
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Area Code(s)207
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 341 US-1, Weston ME 04424, US
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