WILTON — Finding open water on ponds and lakes for fishing April 1 — the traditional day to start open-water fishing — may be impossible without a flamethrower. Those waters are still buried under several feet of ice and snow. Just after 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, one lone ice angler on Wilson Pond trudged through nearly […]
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Warm temperatures make for comfy fishing derby in Norway
NORWAY — Anglers, both young and old, male and female, hit Pennesseewassee Lake on Saturday, each hoping to catch the biggest fish on the first of the annual two-day Norway-Paris Fish and Game Association fishing derby. “It’s usually not this easy; we were kind of excited,” said Association President Sylvia Bosse of the first fish […]
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Maine biologists seek data on trout population
FAIRFIELD — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is preparing to release some 2,000 brown trout into the Kennebec River as part of a study of trout populations in a stretch of the waterway. The Morning Sentinel reports that state biologists asked for input from local fishermen during a meeting in Fairfield on […]