Keywords: Line Fishing
Item 61871
Four men line fishing from a dory, Swan's Island, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Item 101545
Fishing at the pumping station, Woolwich, ca. 1918
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1918 Location: Westport Island; Woolwich Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work
"Seine fishing (hand line fishing) was one form of fishing used by island fishermen. These fishermen were mostly fishing for herring."
Site Page
"Better fishing practices were also adopted; around 1871 the hook and line method was replaced with seining."
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
