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Maine => Ice Fishing Maine => Topic started by: FishingPhil on Jan 21, 2013, 08:57 AM
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Fished up at Kezar Lake this passed weekend. Few good togues, bunch of small salmon as well. One of the togue threw up 2 large skinny bait fish, about 8-9" long. Almost look like alewives. Interesting to say the least.
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Threw up these two along with eating a 6" sucker! Pigs!!
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Thanks! I'll give it a shot
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There are a ton of Smelt in Kezar. Some of them get pretty big.
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Just posted some pics after figuring out how to do so. Not sure if they are smelts. Bait shop thinks they are alewives or herring that might of been stocked?
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Those are healthy looking togue and it looks like they are eating good. ;D
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That last pic looks like smelts,healthy looking fish @)
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That last pic looks like smelts,healthy looking fish @)
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The fish that came out look completely different from the smelt I buy at the bait shop. Are there different versions of smelt? I did reuse one of the part digested bait, but no luck ;-)
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big smelts nice fish.
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Jacks melt. They get up to 14 inches
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Very nice fish, congrats
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Nice fish!! :tipup: How much ice did you guys have?
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Nice fish!
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Thanks for the compliments, hopefully more big fish this season. There was 5-7" of black ice. Quads and snowmobiles on the ice. Should be back out there in 3 week or so. Unless Jordan's Bay freezes over in the next 3 weeks
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Hey Phil, what part of the lake was you on? I'm headed to the north end tomorrow morning. just came in off the lake, snowmobiled around it today.
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North end. By the second island and the point. 60-80 feet of water. Good luck!!
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out in front of rattlesnake island? I live on the west shore.
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Yup! I set up on the north side of rattlesnake island since people were already set up off the point. There is a shelf that goes from 40-88 feet that I was set up on. Yes it's deeper right off the point but people were there already. Good luck! I'll be back in a few weeks
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I'm not concerned one bit. If I can help someone catch more fish then so be it! I don't own the lake. If people catch and release it's all good. These fish are constantly on the move. I dont understand why people are so tight lipped on here. We should work together not against each other
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bring them on, far as spots go, is'nt a spot on the lake i have'nt fished, I don't fish weekends, to many green horns around. takes me 5 minutes to get on the lake. I'll meet you there.
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I'll be up in three weeks. Unless Jordan's Bay freezes over in the next few weeks.
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I'll be up in three weeks. Unless Jordan's Bay freezes over in the next few weeks.
we'll be there this saturday.2nd time this year.pm me when you go . me and the boy will try to hook up with you. there mite be a spot on sebago froze by then. we'll have a maine vs mass fishing derby. looser has to eat a bait fish..my kid is 13 and wants to kick some mass butt...
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I'll let you know next time I'm up. I stay in naples so if sebago is frozen in going there instead!
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I'll let you know next time I'm up. I stay in naples so if sebago is frozen in going there instead!
k cool.
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Connectuit people are welcome but mass peoples arent. That is just an extension form New York ;D
your welcome to. i'll pm you.
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There are some huge togue in that Lake. I Saw a picture from 2 years ago of a 30"laker. When he cleaned it He found a 10" salmon in its stomach. What a pig.
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where is there access to get on the lake? fished it years ago
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Nice job.
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Nice looking healthy lakers. The smelts are large, and were obviously healthy until encountering brother laker.
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Place has great lakers in it i love to fish there but after last year when my buddy and his dad went through on their wheeler it makes me nervous. But im sure when im home on school break ill venture out
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I've been staring at this picture of the two baitfish for awhile. The fish has an elongated upper jaw, an upward oriented eye, and it also has a dark lateral line. Very dace like traits. I know Kezar does not list it but that bottom baitfish has to be a dace, probably a monster black nose or a pearl. Or it's a longnose sucker with its mouth at a relay funny angle.
-Dylan
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I've been staring at this picture of the two baitfish for awhile. The fish has an elongated upper jaw, an upward oriented eye, and it also has a dark lateral line. Very dace like traits. I know Kezar does not list it but that bottom baitfish has to be a dace, probably a monster black nose or a pearl. Or it's a longnose sucker with its mouth at a relay funny angle.
The top fish is a smelt, no doubt. You must be referring to the bottom one. I can't tell from the picture whether the jaw is supposed to be that way or has been messed up through being eaten, smashed, or partially digested. The dark line on it actually looks like dark muscle (the same line of dark meat you find on most fish right along the skin) rather than a dark line of scales on the outside of the fish. Based on the apparent subterminal mouth and the slightly robust body, I would suspect that it is a fallfish.
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No doubt. Watchin em run at boulder is a sight.
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Alot of big words on here :woot: ;D ;D
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I never thought that we might be looking at a fish without skin. Its really annoying me that we can't figure out what that fish is in the bottom of the pic. I accept that theres a chance that it might be a fallfish, but the gill plate doesn't have me convinced, the whole head and body shape look more streamlined and tighter than a chub. I change my vote to it being bigfoot. I'll never figure it out based on this pic.
-Dylan