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New Hampshire’s Fishing, Fisheries and Firsts

Posted on 25 April, 2013 by Janice Brown

“Where, in many straggling group,  Gnarled and crooked willows By a chaffing streamlet stoop, And their yellow branches droop,  Tow’rd its tiny billows; Near the banks are little whirls,–  Whirles of fretted water,– And beneath those rings of pearls  Trout … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire: Celebrating the Shark

Posted on 14 August, 2012 by Janice Brown

Perhaps “celebrating” is not the word that quickly comes to your mind when you hear of a shark being spotted in New Hampshire waters. As recently as July 9th of this year, one of these fearsome beasts was reportedly roaming … Continue reading →

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Poem: The Bloodless Sportsman, by Sam W. Foss

Posted on 19 October, 2006 by Janice Brown

.The Bloodless Sportsman.
   by Sam W. Foss

 ”I go a-gunning, but take no gun;
    I … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know About Alewives

Posted on 15 July, 2006 by Janice Brown

Alewives… they are not barmaids, nor spouses of beer drinkers…

So what are they, and how did they get their … Continue reading →

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Alewife

Posted on 19 June, 2006 by Janice Brown

ale-wife (aylwife) “Pomolobus pseudoharengus,” a small river herring found along the Atlantic coast and in certain landlocked lakes of North … Continue reading →

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