Maine Memory Network

Clear Spring Trout Ponds, Bar Mills, 1924

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1924-09-03 Location: Bar Mills Media: Glass Negative

Clear Springs Trout Ponds hatchery, Bar Mills, 1924

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1924-09-03 Location: Bar Mills Media: Glass Negative

Butler residence, Northeast Harbor, 1987-2014

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987–2014 Location: Mount Desert; Mount Desert Client: Gilbert Butler Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Butler residence, Mount Desert, 1996-2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1996–2003 Location: Mount Desert; Mount Desert Client: Gilbert Butler Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Raising Fish

Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"… in Porter Lake are the landlocked salmon and lake trout, brook trout, rainbow smelt, smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"The biggest trout caught during this time period was caught in Rangeley, and it weighted 16 pounds. Can you imagine? Blue Ledge on the Sandy…"

Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.