From mooring disputes to Jet Skis, the state’s great ponds are seeing an uptick in disputes related to ever more use.
Wilson Pond
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Gone fishin' in Wilton
Friends Scott Heikkinen, foreground, and Wayne Knowles Jr., both of Wilton, fish Wednesday morning at Wilson Lake in Wilton. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal) Friends Wayne Knowles Jr., foreground, and Scott Heikkinen, both of Wilton, fish Wednesday morning at Wilson Lake in Wilton. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal)
Posted inFranklin
Reward offered after ice shack damaged in Wilton
WILTON — Marc Willett of Chesterville is offering a $200 reward to anyone with information leading to the prosecution of the driver who heavily damaged his ice shack on Wilson Pond last week. It appears the shack was hit by an SUV or a truck, Game Warden Kyle Hladik said. Apparently at least one of […]
Posted inFranklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser
‘Amazing’ day for fishing at the Rowe Memorial derby in Wilton
WILTON — As the wind picked up and whipped across Wilson Lake on Saturday afternoon, hardy anglers kept checking lines, hoping for a prize catch. Most reported the fishing was slow, but derby organizer Sharon Borthwick said Saturday’s weather made for the “best day in the last five years.” The annual Michael J. Rowe Memorial […]
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Bristol lobsterman catches salmon on Wilson Pond in Wilton
WILTON — Salmon and brook trout were taking bait fish on ice-fishing trap lines Friday morning on the eastern end of Wilson Pond, while most anglers waited out the wind inside their vehicles parked onshore. Wind chills were near zero with the air temperature 26 in and out of snow squalls coating the ice with […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Ice fishing can continue after March 31; fishing shacks must be removed by April 1
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is encouraging ice anglers to continue fishing come April 1, the traditional day when they’d have to stow their ice-fishing traps and augers. However, ice anglers who use fishing shacks must still remove them from lakes and ponds by Tuesday, April 1. Portable shelters are […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Maine, The Franklin Journal
Open-water anglers won’t be wetting lines by April 1
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 […]