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Posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 by Maine Sportsman
The warm temperatures of the past two weeks has been great for the winter fuel bills, however it has done little for ice conditions except deteriorate them.
We are hearing from and seeing very few anglers so far this year. This past weekend biologists surveyed Schoodic, Seboeis, Molunkus, Upper Cold Stream, Webster, Matagamon, and Scraggly Lakes. Each body of water was checked at least one day during the weekend. Only three parties were observed, and questionable ice conditions limited our ability to fully cover several of the lakes. Hopefully, the temperature will continue to cool down and more ice will form so all the winter anglers chomping at the bit to do some ice fishing will have safe conditions to do so.
The few fishing reports that we have received from around Region F have been good. The low angling pressure early in the season should produce some excellent ice fishing throughout the region later in the season. Here are a few highlights.
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Posted on Friday, January 18th, 2008 by Maine Sportsman
There are no current fishing reports for this area.
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Posted on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 by Maine Sportsman
Although another general law open water fishing season is drawing to a close, there still is time to enjoy the remainder of a productive season and get ready for some fall action on selected waters. With surface waters cooling down, salmon, trout, and togue are coming to the surface and providing some good top-water action. Anglers have reported good action for salmon on East Grand Lake, Pleasant Pond and Cold Stream Pond. Both salmon and splake have been very active in Seboeis Lake. Baxter State Park waters are very productive for brook trout during this part of the season.
Don’t put the fish poles away yet. There are two categories of waters open during the extended fall season. First are waters with a special S-23 designation. These waters are open to fishing from October 1 – October 31 using artificial lures only and all fish caught must be released alive at once. This regulation generally applies to coldwater lakes that are stocked with salmon or trout and allows an angler to fish for these species through October. Some good Penobscot Regional waters are West Lake, Pleasant Lake, Deering Lake, Millinocket Lake, Millinocket Stream (in T1 R8 andT3 IP, from Millinocket Lake Dam downstream to the town line) and the Pemadumcook Chain of Lakes.
The other category is S-24, in which the waters are open from October 1 – November 30. In these waters all trout, salmon togue and bass must be released alive but an angler may keep perch and pickerel. These are generally warmwater lakes and ponds that have good perch and pickerel populations that are productive through the fall season. Some Region F waters in this category are Seboeis Lake, South Branch Pond, Saponac Pond and the Penobscot River from Medway to the Veazie Dam.
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Posted on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 by Maine Sportsman
On Monday, with the help of our fin clipping crew, staff from other hatcheries and regional fisheries offices and our research office, we will begin the annual fall fish marking at Cobb Fish Hatchery in Enfield. This crew will mark more than 90,735 Brook Trout and 20,350 Splake. In a week’s time, 111,085 fish will be netted out of the raceways, loaded onto a truck and transported to a holding pool. Then the fish are netted out, placed in a trough with an anesthetic, and then the anesthetized fish are then are netted and placed in a trough to be clipped. After this, they are sent through a pipeline back to the pool were they started. In most cases, the fish go through this complete process in about 15 min. It is quite a process to see. If your happen to be in the Enfield area this week stop by.
After this week of fin clipping, the hatchery staff here at Cobb Hatchery will begin the task of stocking more than 116,260 fall fingerling brook trout; 4,950 fall fingerling splake; 17,900 fall yearling brook trout; 1,600 fall yearling splake and 5,000 adult brook trout. It is truly an amazing feat that they can stock over 145,000 fish in less than two months. The start of fish marking signifies to us here in the office that summer is over and fall is here. Lets hope for some great fall weather with plenty of rain to bring the flows up in the streams and rivers as well at the water levels up in the lakes and ponds. Get out and enjoy the great fall weather. The trees will be turning soon.
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Posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 by Maine Sportsman
How do we keep track of more than 1,000,000 brook trout, lake trout, landlocked salmon, brown trout, and splake after they are stocked? By applying an individual fin clip to a percentage of the fish stocked in Maine each year, that’s how. During the week of September 10, over 120,000 fish will be marked at Cobb Fish Hatchery in Enfield by a very dedicated group of fin clippers from the Enfield and Lincoln area. This is the largest effort statewide to mark fish for later identification. An experienced fin clipper can mark approximately 400 fish per hour, so you can see that it takes a while to clip 120,000+ fish. Similar marking programs take place at all Maine State Hatcheries during the spring and fall each year.
Why do we clip all of those fish? We have a 4-year (11 year rotation for lake trout) fin clip schedule set up for all of the species of fish that we stock Maine, so that each year a different clip is applied. By looking at a marked fish from any lake, pond or stream in Maine that we stock, we can immediately determine what year that fish was stocked. Otherwise, we would have to take a scale or otolith sample of that fish and analyze the data at a later date. Although it takes a long time to mark 120,000 fish, it is a real time saver later in the process of evaluating our hatchery programs.
Based upon this age and growth information, decisions about numbers of fish stocked, length limits, bag limits, gear restrictions and access issues are more effectively made. This is very important information that will provide us a great deal of insight as to the success of any of our stocking programs and management initiatives.
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