Animals in Maine

[cbbase30]

Getting ready to buy some land up in maine, and thinking about getting my guide license, who can tell me what animals are up there. Is there any wolf and mountain lions up there in the northern part? thanks

[stweedie]

http://www.state.me.us/ifw/

This site may help answer some of your questions.

[Moose]

Depends on who you ask. You can't hunt either wolf or Mountain lion. What type of guiding you looking to do? Don't get me wrong I love Maine but I would think its a hard place to break in a new guide service. Hunting seasons are short up there and if your looking to spend money other parts of the country maybe a bit easier to establish a new buisness. Good Luck

[cbbase30]

No im not hunting for wolf or Mountain lion, i just hear tells that they where there and some tells that they was not. I will be working on getting my registered guide license to do guide for the moose, bear, deer and turkey. Plus i have not went up there to see my land yet im buying, and im just buying it for hunting, never been up there yet and was just wondering what type of animals are there, not to much here in ohio at all. thanks again

[bigbuck200]

I thought Ohio has all of these huge bucks! One interesting thing I heard about Ohio...If you get permission to hunt a property, you also have to get signed permission by the surrounding landowners in case you hit a buck and it crosses onto another parcel. Anyone else here about this?

[cbbase30]

I think here if you hit one, the law has to be called and i think sometimes they let you have it, if its worth eating. Yes theres alot of deer here and pretty easy to take a bow out and get them, well i know its pretty easy for me because i use a crossbow, i just want to hunt different animals for a change. Now the turkey, i gave up on them lol, toooooooooo hard to hunt.

[stweedie]

I thought the challenge was the reason we hunt! Not too many hunting season's here in Maine where you have try to be invisible with ten pound mosquitos and blackfly swarms chewing you to pieces while you wait for a gobbler to get into shotgun range.

[aroostookbasser]

Lots to hunt...but shoot all the coyotes you see!!!!!!!

[kenton6]

I'll second part of what Moose said.
Depends on whose version you want to listen to. The official one or one from the natives.
And yes, stweedie gave you a link that will lay out the different kinds of wildlife that the MDIFW manages.
Where's you land you are buying. Maine is a long state, north to south and makes for a wide range of weather and wildlife.

[cbbase30]

Im buying 200 acres up in North Amity Maine, and Im buying 60 acres up in Washburn Maine. Now let me guess the weather will be something big up in them parts, how about the wildlife? thanks