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supposed to be cold here this coming week. (normal march weather). below freezing at night with snow showers all week long. we might be able to fish right till the end of the season here. got over 100 w. perch yesterday with some big yellows and even caught 2 legal salmon we werent targeting.
We have some white perch spots like that. Caught a couple hundred several times at Sebasticook thinking they's be good lobster bait. It didn't work. I heard some guys will use them on halibut trawls. One other thing; whites are heavy bio-accummullaters as they feed pretty high on the food chain and live a long time. Yellows, along with crappy and whitefish are among the lowest in toxin content as they eat much lower on the food chain with diets leaning more on insects and invertebrates. I have come to avoid high end consumers. [/color
I can tell you from 1st hand experience as I just fished Moosehead Lake (walk on only) on 3/12 and 3/13. The ice on Moosehead Lake in Northern Maine is extremely sketchy, average ice thickness we found was 12", however that thickness was compromised by 3" of black honeycombed ice on the bottom with 4" of junk ice on top, effectively there was only 4"-5" of solid black ice, pretty scary when your standing above 80' of water. Not only that but with unusually warm spring Temps the Northern Lakes are losing 1" of ice per day! When we were on Mooshead last week we both agreed we just barely made it to the end of ice fishing that lake this year!
I was on 14" to 15" of good ice on Saturday.
1st thing. Moosehead isnt northern Maine. im on the Canadian border where rt.1 begins. it would take me 3.5 hrs driving s.w to get to the northern part of Moosehead. there is 16in. of blue ice right now up here. shorelines are starting to open in a few places but if your careful where you get on, it isnt a issue. this weeks colds going to preserve it longer. couldnt ask for better fishing conditions right now.
where did you hear that? id think big togue and muskie would be ones to be boi accumulators. i dont think any perch would have this issue. these whites showed up 6-7 years ago so none older than that and the fish river chain has some of the cleanest water in the state. there were no mills other than saw mills ever on these lakes. luckily fishing for them is getting popular because of how easy it is to catch a bunch of them. that should control their numbers so they dont stunt, overpopulate and out compete the natives. i wont give out my favorite cold water species spots but i will gladly drill a hole for anyone, right next to me to fish for perch. more the merrier! see big groups with kids running like crazy for flags. that warms my heart to see. what was a bad thing might be a a blessing to pass the love of fishing to the young ones and keep them off the net and get some fresh air in the outdoors.
I was on 14" to 15" of good ice on Saturday. [quoteWhere? Prove your point because that is bad advice and most of that ice is rotten from bottom up and top down. Somewhere in the middle is barely 4"-5" of solid black ice. With warm spring temps Lakes lose 1" of ice per day. What you call "Good Ice" is most certainly not!
were you out with the boy scouts? thats why Matt was fishing with me. didnt want to get mobbed.
Quote from: MarkNFish on Mar 18, 2024, 06:58 AMI was on 14" to 15" of good ice on Saturday. [quoteWhere? Prove your point because that is bad advice and most of that ice is rotten from bottom up and top down. Somewhere in the middle is barely 4"-5" of solid black ice. With warm spring temps Lakes lose 1" of ice per day. What you call "Good Ice" is most certainly not!I was in northern Aroostook County. I didn't give any advice to anybody. I was simply responding to the original post that asked if anyone was still ice fishing in the state. I've been ice fishing for for almost 50 years and have stayed above the ice that entire time. I know good solid ice when I see it. JackSmelt (who was fishing a couple of lakes away) reported driving a UTV on 16" of ice the same day.
Nope. I was all by myself except when JDK stopped-by for a bit. Where were the Boy Scouts?
squa pan.
went back a few days ago. still about 14in. of good blue ice. unfortunately, all this snow is going to turn it into a slush pit. im done with the hardwater. all the rivers are already opened up so plenty of places to hit after apr. 1, mid 40's again next week so the snows going to go quick.
Yeah, I put all of my ice fishing gear away. No sense to fight the deep snow at this point.