Is it still hunting (as opposed to shooting) if you use a drone to find game? Is it ethical? Is it legal? (The answer to that last, at least in New Hampshire, is no.) This is the topic of conversation in this mini episode, filmed on location, between Ed and Max, with Brian returning to the podcast to lend his thoughts as well. (We were in Brian's w…

April is here and that means salmon season. Max and Ed talk about the opening day on Lake Winnipesaukee. Another topic is the abundance of coyotes and a horrifying experience an acquaintance of Ed’s went through involving coyotes and her dog. By the way, do you say “Kai-Yo-Tee” or “Kai-Oat”? Let us know in the comments. Ed also explains how modern …

Our good friend Brian is the guest on this episode of The Woodsman’s Podcast. Viewers of the YouTube channel will recognize him from numerous videos, and also the intro to most videos shows him planing an ash log to make a long bow. Brian has spent a lifetime learning his craft and can carve wood, stone, ivory, bone, antler, ice, and pretty much ev…

On this episode of the Woodsman’s Podcast, Ed and Max talk about ice fishing and the results of the Great Meredith Ice Fishing Derby. They also recap an overnight rabbit hunting trip Ed took recently (that video coming Saturday 2/16). They also revisit squirrel hunting to answer a subscriber’s question. The Meredith Rotary Ice Fishing Derby http://…

It’s the first podcast of 2019 and Ed’s focused on ice fishing, even though the ice on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee isn’t quite thick enough yet to be out on, especially not with any equipment. Still some of the smaller lakes are solid enough and plenty of fishermen are out there. Max has an update on oak trees to follow up on last month’s di…

The ups and downs of this year’s whitetail deer hunting season is the topic of the latest episode of The Woodsman’s Podcast. The “atlatl” or spear thrower to use a less interesting name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower “If” by Rudyard Kipling: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if— **PODCAST** Please subscribe to The Woodsman’…

Bear hunting is the main topic of episode 6 of the Woodsman’s Podcast, as Ed tells Max about the unique bear he was fortunate enough to harvest while on a hunting trip in Maine. Special thanks our generous sponsors at https://patreon.com/workingclasswoodsman Mack_Galvin (https://www.youtube.com/user/spence0324) Brian Farni Jay Hyland (https://www.y…

In episode 5 of the Woodsman’s Podcast, Ed and Max are joined by Marc Patterson of Wildwood Guide Service. Marc is a Registered Maine Guide (so is Ed) and after talking about their day of fishing for native brook trout Marc and Ed talk about what it means to be a guide, along the way explaining certain terms and scenarios to a perplexed Max. Marc i…

What fish are native or indigenous to New Hampshire? Specifically, Lake Winnipesaukee. Well, it’s your lucky day because Ed (the Working Class Woodsman on YouTube) has the answers. He also lets Max know about the deal with the eel, particularly American Eels that make their way from Lake Winnipesaukee to the Atlantic Ocean and into the Sea of Sarga…

In this special bonus episode of The Woodsman’s Podcast, Max and Ed finish going through the 2018 Maine Sportsman’s Opinion poll, which they had started in episode 2. Please check out Marc Paterson’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHHd_wrkBpbjil1NBNsZADQ?sub_confirmation=1 **PODCAST** Please subscribe to The Woodsman’s Podcast: i…

In episode 2 of the Woodsman’s Podcast, Max and Ed discuss the 2018 Sportsman’s Opinion Poll in the June edition of the Maine Sportsman. Questions range from “Did you hunt with a crossbow in the past year,” to “Do you believe global warming is a real environmental threat” to “should the state end the recreational trapping of bears?” We got through …