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For the past several years my friends and I have spent President's weekend icefishing on Winnisquam, but decided to move our trip up one weekend sooner for the fishing derby. I'm hoping we'll have enough ice. Anybody familiar with the area around lexington and shore? How is that looking? Also, Winnisquam is stocked for the derby, right? How does that work? Like, do they only stock one or two places on the lake limiting the location of the fish, or do they spread the stocking around? Thanks, Bob
Capt. Black, Aquaassassin, I just went to the Derby website and did a little reading. I was under the impression that the Rotary stocked the lakes with tagged fish just prior to the Derby and only for the derby. That's not the case. Right? We've actually never caught a rainbow through the ice. Just a few lake trout. Bob
If Im not mistaken, the tagged Rainbows get stocked month(s) prior to the Derby so that they have a chance to spread out/move.I heard that in the early years they used to stock them a week or two prior and the fish never really go a chance to disburse, and stayed right near the stock sites. It makes sense that they'd want the fish to spread out, so that there is the possibitlity of catching a tagged rainbow anywhere throghout the lakes.
Thanks WG. I've never fished it, thinking about hiking that way to wet a line