A Sporting Year in Maine - by Tom Roth (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Like most outdoorsmen and women, Tom Roth tries to pack as much into each season as he can. As a 25-year regional columnist for The Maine Sportsman, New England's largest outdoor publication, Tom wrote of his adventures month by month. In A Sporting Year In Maine, Tom walks you through each month, detailing what the great state of Maine has to offer, complete with how-to, some where-to, and a healthy dose of humorous events that happened along the way. Written in his folksy, conversational tone, Tom brings the reader along on all his forays and will entertain sporting and non-sporting folks alike. His book also includes chapters on his home base of Sebago Lake where he guides anglers, dogs that came and went, boats and motors and traveling adventures. If you want to to know what a real Maine outdoorsman does all year, pick up a copy of A Sporting Year In Maine and see for yourself.

Review Quotes

"a fan of Tom Roth from the time he wrote his first column for the magazine. Reading Tom's book reminds me of sitting around the table at camp with friends, discussing fishing, hunting and Maine life in general. His book has a folksy, conversational tone that will appeal to readers of all stripes."

-Tom Seymour, columnist and author of Tom Seymour's Forager's Notebook, Getting Your Big Fish - Trolling Maine's Waters, and other books.

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"A columnist for The Maine Sportsman for twenty years, Tom Roth has acquired his knowledge of the outdoors over a lifetime spent in the Pine Tree State's fields and forests and on its water. In A Sporting Year in Maine, we get to accompany Tom as he chases snowshoe hares behind a eachmonth of the calendar, telling true stories from his years of experience in the woods and fields, and on the waters and ice, of our great

-Will Lund, Editor of The Maine Sportsman.

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"This book will bring back many of your own memories of hunting and fishing adventures, as Tom shares his own great stories, organized by month and he also offers a lot of good how-to advice. It took me a while to read this because Tom inspired me to put the book down and write my own stories. You should do that too!"

-George Smith, author of A Life Lived Outdoors, Maine Sporting Camps, A Lifetime of Hunting and Fishing, former Director of The Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, outdoor writer, television host and regular columnist and blogger.