Posted on August 09 2006
“While sharing a small pond in the Moose River drainage with a loon, I found out first hand that they are better at fishing than me (no surprise). The point was driven home as I stood in my canoe stripping a Mickey Finn streamer fly through the clear water.” Rex Turner tells the origin of the loon’s name and the current threats to this symbol of the wilder parts of northern climes in Maine Today.