Randy Spencer guides fishermen on the Canadian border waters of Downeast Maine. He has written and published three award-winning books. His first, Where Cool Waters Flow: Four Seasons with a Master Maine Guide, won the New England Outdoors 2010 Book of the Year award. His second, Wide and Deep: Tales and Recollections of a Master Maine Fishing Guide, won the same award for 2015, as well as Best contemporary nonfiction of 2015 from the New England Society in the City of New York. In addition, Wide and Deep won National First Prize in Nonfiction from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. It was released in paperback in the spring of 2017. Randy’s third book, Written on Water: Characters and Mysteries from Maine’s Back of Beyond, released last year, has been nominated for several awards.
Portland Magazine has named Spencer one of the Ten Most Intriguing People in Maine. Yankee Magazine included him as one of the 25 people you need to meet most. He has been the subject of features on CBS Sunday Morning, Boston Channel 5’s Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, and ESPN2. Randy, and his wife Shelley, with their two English Springer Spaniels, divide their time between Grand Lake Stream and Holden, Maine.
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