Is Your Catch Stocked or Wild?
The crisp morning air fills your lungs with oxygen and your soul with serenity and anticipation all at once. The water is flat and calm, depicting a perfect mirror image of the brilliantly colored foliage intermixed with deep evergreen that skirts the lake and makes you feel like you just fell into a watercolor painting. Each time you cast the line your heart jumps a little with anticipation of a bite and a sense of wonder surrounding what you might pull in from the depths.
A New Fishing Tool: FLOAT
I’m sure many of you have hit the road at the crack of dawn to start a fishing trip and realized you didn’t have your fishing lawbook. Did you go out of your way to stop by a gas station or town office hoping they’d be open and have a copy? Or turn around to head home and waste even more of your precious fishing time? To me, neither of those options are ideal, and I’d rather not worry about remembering the lawbook along with my fishing gear, life jackets, snacks, sunscreen, bug spray…the list seems endless. I guess I could put a copy in my boat that never leaves the boat and remains in pristine condition? Yeah right!
Brook Trout Protection - Blog One
By Tim Obrey, Regional Fisheries Supervisor, Moosehead Lake Region
Brook Trout Protection - Blog Two
We had two focal areas as we discussed the current Moosehead Lake brook trout fishery:
The Legends of Lily Bay - Blog Three
By Tim Obrey, Regional Fisheries Supervisor, Moosehead Lake Region
Brook Trout Protection – We All Play a Role - Blog Four
By Tim Obrey, Regional Fisheries Supervisor, Moosehead Lake Region
No More Sweat, Blood, and Tears – Youth Fishing Can Actually be Simple, Convenient and Comfortable
By Fisheries Biologist Wes Ashe
In early May, I decided it was time to take my toddler son on a remote fishing trip. Greyson was a relatively proficient caster, earthworms no longer freaked him out, and he was big for his age. I was certain he was ready for the Maine outdoors. Plus, I already had my kayak stashed alongside a Heritage brook trout pond that only required a milelong roundtrip hike. What could possibly go wrong?
Should Anglers Catch and Release or Harvest Their Catch?
By Fisheries Resource Biologist Liz Thorndike
When to be Concerned About Finding Dead Fish on Maine’s Lakes, Ponds, and Rivers this Summer
By Fish Pathologist David Russell
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