Column: Getting dates in order during the slow season

SUN JOURNAL • March 30, 2024

Open water fishing season starts April 1. Spring wild turkey hunting begins April 29 and goes until June 1. Bear season starts with a youth day on Aug. 24 and the general bear season starts the following Monday, Aug. 26. For bow hunters, the deer season kicks off in the expanded zone on Sept. 7. The firearms season for deer begins Nov. 4 this year and extends until Nov. 30, with a statewide muzzle loader option on its heels Dec. 2. The 2024 grouse season will open on Sept. 28 and run until Dec. 31. That Saturday of the grouse opener is also the last day of Maine’s first moose hunting week. ~ V. Paul Reynolds