BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 2, 2024
Deklan Taylor, 12, and his grandfather pursued a large bear the youth nicknamed “Pie Plate” for four years. They monitored game cameras to figure out his movement patterns, and bemoaned that he liked to show up between midnight and 1 a.m. But Deklan of Mars Hill finally had success this year on his birthday, and brought down the 392-pound boar that made pie plate-sized paw prints. It’s not Deklan’s first special bear. Last year he killed a 360-pound sow and the year before the state pulled a tooth from his bear and aged it at 32 years old.