Recent content by Jeff Reardon

Tell them if they want to spend time with you, they need to help. Many hands speeds up sanding, among other things.

True, but do I really want to give someone in Jersey or Florida my credit card? No offense to the Jersey or Florida members, of course. You all seem like perfectly nice people. ;)

I have heard good things about Online Outboards. I was lined up to buy an 8 HP Suzuki from them, but my local dealer came close enough to matching their price that I was willing to pay a little more to avoid the hassle of shipping--which would have been free, but required me to be at home when...

Thanks, Billy. I'll pass this on to my friend Garrett if that's OK with you. Let me know. He's looking at one at a dealer somewhere, I think in Bangor.

Great stuff as always, Steve! This caught my eye in the catalog pages you shared: You definitely qualify as a "trained graduate artist" and your birds are "specially hand painted" "with perfect detail. Hope you are charging more than an inflation adjusted version of 54 cents per bird.

At least this site--unlike some of my favorite trout and striper sites that went over to Facebook--does not have AI bots making half the posts in an attempt to driver more traffic to the sites that get traffic. Eric and mods--we know you can't keep the world from changing, but please keep this...

I bought an old sculling boat, built in Maine but exiled to Delaware. It had been built to hunt the waters near my home, an on an impulse, I made an E-bay bid and ended up with it. Drove ~12 hours south to pick it up--on an unknown trailer, in somewhat worse conditions than the Ebay photos had...

A friend is considering purchasing a used 2014 Polar Kraft Outlander 20. It's got a 4 stroke Yamaha 115, set up as a center console. His intended uses include lake fishing, striper fishing in protected ocean waters, and family cruising, and duck hunting, including some limited sea-ducking...

Are you talking about this? Why is it a big secret if it's in the newspaper? More importantly, how does an appointed politician charged with taking bribes to award state contracts undercut the value and integrity of professional federal scientists? Or is there some other story about "cooking...

Are there any northern states that have an early teal season? We've never had one in Maine. I think we are also going to 3 pintail limit, which would exceed the total number of pintails I have shot in ~20 years of duck hunting. I did get one nice drake two season's ago, and an immature one a...

I did a spring trip to the Smokies every year when I lived in Michigan a few years after college. Snowbird in the spring was spectacular. Maybe the prettiest place I have ever caught brook trout. But in Jersey, where I lived a few years before I was in Michigan, Van Campen's is pretty...

I'm jealous, so my only response is 60 IS REALLY OLD! We did a family trip to Marathon Key last spring, and all I managed to do was break off two very large snook in a mangrove creek we could kayak to from our rental. The third morning a manatee cow and calf show seemed to spook all the fish...

For info on canvas over wood restoration, check here: https://www.woodencanoe.org/ I hope more photos are coming as you progress. Wood deck on a metal hull is something I've not heard of before. Someone here may know something about the origin/history of such craft.

I set up for ducks last fall under some tall pines on the river bank and there must have been 25+ turkeys roosted in the trees above and behind me. We have a fall season, and they'd have been legal to take, but all the ones who flew down in range were before legal shooting. Had to chase the...