Central Maine Fishing Reports
March 30th, 2006 by Fishing admin
CENTRAL MAINE FISHING REPORT - If the warmer weather conditions continue at their present trend, we are going to see many lakes and ponds loose their winter coats just in time for the first day of open water fishing season. This Saturday holds a great promise of having significantly more open water than most seasons past. For many anglers, the opening day is a tradition to just get out and wet a line. In general, many anglers that do venture out to fish opening day are very seldom rewarded with any fish. If you are one of those anglers who always thought about wetting a line on opening day, this may be the year to give it a try.
With last fall’s rains and this year’s ice conditions, there will be many more fish susceptible to open water anglers. As is usual, last fall the department stocked fall yearling brook trout for the upcoming ice fishing season. The rain that we encountered during the fall could have played a major role on harvest and movement of those stocked fish. Some of the trout might have been attracted by the high flows and moved into the inlets or the outlets of the waters stocked.
The results from our winter creel census work showed low harvest rates for these fall yearling fish. This, in return, means more trout for the open water anglers. I would suggest that you take a look at the fall yearling stocking report at:
http://www.maine.gov/ifw/fishing/fishstockingreports/2005/index.htm, to see the whole list of stocked waters. Then try some of the outlets of the various waters that were stocked last fall with fall yearling brook trout.
A few that come to mind would be Lake St. George (Liberty), Wassookeag Lake (Dexter), Long Pond (Belgrade) and Great Moose Pond (Hartland).
– Scott Davis, Fisheries Biologist Specialist