Things That Caught My Eye With The New Law Book

[MGK]

1)(Open Water) Boundary waters Between Maine and New Brunswick,
  Daily Bag Limits

On landlocked salmon, trout, and togue: 5 fish, not to include more than 2 salmon, 2 togue, all 5 may be trout. Total weight of these fish not to exceed 7.5lbs
Love this because all the "Big" Togue must be released as I read it

2) It is now legal to keep 1 whitefish that exceeds 18" on Eagle Lake, Churchill Lake, Spider Lake....


Did anyone see anything that caught their eye?

[Turnbuckle]

I don't understand the new Sebago regulations. Looks like they are protecting the togue 23-33 inches now as all have to be released, you know the ones that are eating all the smelt and overpopulating the lake. I don't get it.

[Derik]

I think the idea behind the sebago togue slot is that the will be able to still produce those large fish that everyone invariably wants, while removing the smaller togue before they are able to reproduce and reduce competition for forage that way.  Page 53 has a little blurb about it.

[The Rusty Crab]

I didn't notice that but I just looked and on page 51 number 5 says the 7.5 does not apply.

[Turnbuckle]

I think the idea behind the sebago togue slot is that the will be able to still produce those large fish that everyone invariably wants, while removing the smaller togue before they are able to reproduce and reduce competition for forage that way.  Page 53 has a little blurb about it.

The smaller togue are the 23-33 inchers. Give me a couple hours and I'll fill your pale. 

[The Rusty Crab]

They did change from 1 line to 2 lines per person open water. Yeah.

[MGK]

I didn't notice that but I just looked and on page 51 number 5 says the 7.5 does not apply.

They did change from 1 line to 2 lines per person open water. Yeah.

Ok now I see that. Thanks for letting me know.

[blacktrap]

I don't understand the new Sebago regulations. Looks like they are protecting the togue 23-33 inches now as all have to be released, you know the ones that are eating all the smelt and overpopulating the lake. I don't get it.

I posted the quote from the bio that wanted the restriction in another thread.  The reason they are doing this is to "weight the togue population towards larger fish in order to control the smaller togue and reduce the population of them".  The bios believe that the larger togue will eat the smaller ones and result in an overall reduction in the togue population.