Posted on Monday, July 27th, 2009 by Maine Sportsman
With the advent of spring, Region B biologists have taken to the field, undertaking open water evaluations of a wide variety of lakes, ponds and streams throughout the Midcoast.
While it is often referred to as “the Midcoastal Region,” Region B encompasses about 4,000 square miles, extending quite far inland from the coast. At the coast proper, the Region extends generally from the Androscoggin River on the west to the Penobscot on the east. Going north along the Androscoggin, the region reaches Livermore Falls before turning northeast in a somewhat ragged line roughly following the Kennebec\Franklin and Kennebec\Somerset county lines to Canaan. From there, it heads north to Cambridge, again east to Garland, then southeast to the Bangor area and the Penobscot River.
Throughout the region, there is a great variety of aquatic habitat types. Indeed, there are more than 300 named lakes and ponds and about 3,000 miles of permanent and intermittent streams. Region B is somewhat unique in that most of its waters are relatively easy to get to. A pond considered “remote” in this neck of the woods might be all of a half-mile walk. But, that quick hike might provide a pond or stream that one angler has all to themselves. In short, there as many types of fishing to be found here as there are anglers.
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Tags: Central Maine Fishing Report • Categories: General
Posted on Monday, July 27th, 2009 by Maine Sportsman
By now much of the angling public is well aware that the MDIFW is working on a brand new consolidated fishing law book that will include both open water and ice fishing regulations in the same book. This initiative was undertaken as a cost saving task and should be be printed for use in the spring of 2010. In addition to consolidation efforts, there will also be a number of water-specific management regulation changes proposed in southern Maine, as well as other management regions. Many of the water specific regulation changes proposed in are relatively minor and are “house keeping” in nature, while others are more substantive. Below I have summarized many of the additional regulation changes proposed for Region A.
•Eliminating existing special regulations (noted in “( )”), where they no longer support stocking and management goals: Mine P, Porter (2 trap limit) / Lone P, Waterboro (ALO, closed to ice fishing) / Ingalls P, Bridgton (no taking smelts) / Stanley P, Porter (no taking smelts) / Little Clemmons P (no taking smelts).
•Removing “closed to fishing” from a number of private ponds (mostly private): Pipedream P (Cornish) / Legion P (Kittery) / Big Rock P (Waterboro) / Sunken P (Sanford) / Sand P (Limington).
•Standardize and apply restrictions on Region A wild brook trout ponds like, closed to taking bait, close to all fishing from Oct 1 – Mar 31, no ice fishing, closed to taking bait….. In addition adopt the following regulations (noted in “( )”): Cold Water P, Kennebunk (ALO, must release trout < 6" and greater than 12"), Kennebunk Plains P / Kennebunk (ALO, C&R), Spicer P, Newfield (open April 1).
•Establish 12 PM smelt dipping closure consistent with NH on NH-ME border waters: Kimball P, Fryeburg
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Tags: Southwestern Maine Fishing Report • Categories: General
