MAINE GUIDE EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
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✔✔Body of water number - ✔✔Elevation above sea level
✔✔Inlet - ✔✔Water flowing in; counter lines pointing away from body of water
✔✔Outlet - ✔✔Water flowing out; counter lines pointing toward from body of water
✔✔Confluence - ✔✔where 2 streams join
✔✔Mouth - ✔✔Where a stream/river enters a larger area
✔✔Declination - ✔✔difference between true north and magnetic north
✔✔Calculate a bearing - ✔✔T + D = M (true north + declination = magnetic north)
✔✔Azimuth - ✔✔A bearing expressed in degrees
✔✔Back azimuth - ✔✔opposite of an azimuth. +180 if bearing < 200, -180 if bearing >
200
✔✔Closest scale to 1" to 1mi - ✔✔1:62,000 (Alaskan)
✔✔What is grid north - ✔✔North that is established by vertical lines on a map
✔✔How large is a township - ✔✔36sqmi
✔✔What does T2R4 stand for - ✔✔Township 2 Range 4
✔✔WELS - ✔✔West of the easterly line of the state
✔✔Township size - ✔✔Larger south - north
✔✔Range size - ✔✔Larger east - west
✔✔Name the 5 fins of a fish - ✔✔Dorsal
Caudal
Anal
Pelvic
Pectoral
, ✔✔Name 5 types of baitfish - ✔✔Common shiner
Golden shiner
Emerald shiner
Rainbow smelt
Fathead minnow
Lake chub
✔✔Common dry flies - ✔✔Adams
Wulff
Elk hair caddis
✔✔Common wet flies - ✔✔Egg fly
✔✔Common streamer flies - ✔✔Clouser deep minnow
Woolly bugger
Black ghost
✔✔How many points considered a single hook - ✔✔1-3
✔✔Fly line direction - ✔✔(backing) - Fly line - leader - tippit
✔✔Knot to tie from fly line to leader - ✔✔Nail knot
✔✔Knot to tie leader to tippit - ✔✔Blood knot
✔✔WF6F - ✔✔Weight forward, 6, floating
✔✔Types of flies - ✔✔Level
Weight forward
Double taper
✔✔How are flies weighted - ✔✔By grain
✔✔True or false: bait is allowed in the north zone - ✔✔False; south
✔✔True or false: there is a limit on bass in the south zone - ✔✔True
✔✔ALO/S-6 - ✔✔Artificial lures only
✔✔FFO/S-5 - ✔✔Fly fishing only
✔✔S-4 - ✔✔No live fish as bait
✔✔S-33 - ✔✔Max length on landlocked salmon and brown trout is 25"
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔
✔✔Body of water number - ✔✔Elevation above sea level
✔✔Inlet - ✔✔Water flowing in; counter lines pointing away from body of water
✔✔Outlet - ✔✔Water flowing out; counter lines pointing toward from body of water
✔✔Confluence - ✔✔where 2 streams join
✔✔Mouth - ✔✔Where a stream/river enters a larger area
✔✔Declination - ✔✔difference between true north and magnetic north
✔✔Calculate a bearing - ✔✔T + D = M (true north + declination = magnetic north)
✔✔Azimuth - ✔✔A bearing expressed in degrees
✔✔Back azimuth - ✔✔opposite of an azimuth. +180 if bearing < 200, -180 if bearing >
200
✔✔Closest scale to 1" to 1mi - ✔✔1:62,000 (Alaskan)
✔✔What is grid north - ✔✔North that is established by vertical lines on a map
✔✔How large is a township - ✔✔36sqmi
✔✔What does T2R4 stand for - ✔✔Township 2 Range 4
✔✔WELS - ✔✔West of the easterly line of the state
✔✔Township size - ✔✔Larger south - north
✔✔Range size - ✔✔Larger east - west
✔✔Name the 5 fins of a fish - ✔✔Dorsal
Caudal
Anal
Pelvic
Pectoral
, ✔✔Name 5 types of baitfish - ✔✔Common shiner
Golden shiner
Emerald shiner
Rainbow smelt
Fathead minnow
Lake chub
✔✔Common dry flies - ✔✔Adams
Wulff
Elk hair caddis
✔✔Common wet flies - ✔✔Egg fly
✔✔Common streamer flies - ✔✔Clouser deep minnow
Woolly bugger
Black ghost
✔✔How many points considered a single hook - ✔✔1-3
✔✔Fly line direction - ✔✔(backing) - Fly line - leader - tippit
✔✔Knot to tie from fly line to leader - ✔✔Nail knot
✔✔Knot to tie leader to tippit - ✔✔Blood knot
✔✔WF6F - ✔✔Weight forward, 6, floating
✔✔Types of flies - ✔✔Level
Weight forward
Double taper
✔✔How are flies weighted - ✔✔By grain
✔✔True or false: bait is allowed in the north zone - ✔✔False; south
✔✔True or false: there is a limit on bass in the south zone - ✔✔True
✔✔ALO/S-6 - ✔✔Artificial lures only
✔✔FFO/S-5 - ✔✔Fly fishing only
✔✔S-4 - ✔✔No live fish as bait
✔✔S-33 - ✔✔Max length on landlocked salmon and brown trout is 25"
