Weatherby’s Media Archives, magazine article and writing about Weatherby’s Fishing and Hunting Lodge in Grand Lake Stream, Maine.
Downeast Magazine 2008 Grand Decision By WAYNE CURTIS - One day last summer I was walking past Weatherby's fishing resort in Grand Lake Stream, and I heard a dull rhythmic pounding sound coming from behind one of the log cabins. This seems worth investigating, so I wondered up the cedar steps from the stream and found Jeff
Fly Rod & Reel - January-February 2007 Downeast Bass Fishing By JIM REILLY - Jeff McEvoy has his hand on the outboard's throttle as he steers the canoe across Third Machias Lake. I'm sitting on the floor of the canoe to cut down on wind resistance and so McEvoy has a clear view of the water in
Donald Bain 1998 Hooked at 50 - How I Got Started Fishing By DONALD BAIN - "Trust me," he said. That was the line I heard countless times from my agent but never from my daily luncheon companion, or E.Z. Filler, (a dentist and that was his real name). He had just convinced me, a non-fisherman, to
Fly Rod & Reel Magazine - 2000 .1000 On Grand Lake Stream By CLIFF HAUPTMAN - I have no aversion to bats, unless they are hooked at the end of my fly line. I have seen pelicans on Deerfield pier in Florida grab squid baits and get the hooks stuck in their throats, flying off on
Women Outdoors - Summer 2004 The Women of Weatherby's By KAREN LEE - The name Weatherby's has a sophisticated ring so the thought of spending a week in one of Maine's most traditional fish camps scared the heck out of me. I pictured stodgy white-haired man in smoking jackets enjoying cigars after a day on the stream,
DownEast Magazine - 1997 A Stream Runs Through It By JEFF CLARK - The village of Grand Lake Stream has spent a century earning its reputation as a haven for anglers, and it needs to hold onto it. In Grand Lake Stream, the stream itself is the loudest sound in town. The tiny village of less than
Sports Afield 1984 The Salmon Camp By Jerome B. Robinson - There is a special charm about old-time fishing camps, one that has to do with traditions which allow fishing to remain a relaxing form of recreation and not just a race to the fish. At all old-time camps, you still find men using split bamboo rods,
Small Boat Journal 1983 Dr. Canoe and Mr.Motorboat By Jay Sperling- "Almost at the center of the old Passamaquoddy tribal lands," wrote Minnie Atkinson in 1920, "... (lies) a tangled chain of lakes and streams like trinkets of silver on the deep green earth". West Grand Lake is near the middle of this multicolored jewelry. This is a
The Maine Thing - Outdoor Life 1971 By Joe Brooks I had fished in this very spot 25 years earlier, and the stream hadn't changed. The fast water talked merrily as it rushed into the pool, but off to the side the surface was slick, with a circle here, a circle there, and a plop
Weatherby's Featured in Outdoor Life in 1965 Landlocked Break-Out! It was the Fourth of July, the traditional time for fireworks, and, as though by arrangement, the water in the vicinity of my trolled streamers suddenly exploded. My fly rod bucked, and some 70 feet behind the canoe a gleaming landlocked salmon made like a rocket.
