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More tourism in the summer. They want them to last through the winter.
Oh i know, don't have to register an auger or pay additional fees to catch them through the ice is the real reason! State can't make nearly as much $... i get the Sebago regulations, as the salmon are native there and deserve to be protected, but Thompson is an artificial salmon fishery...
Why do you want to ruin the open water salmon fishing ?WQhen the lake was closed in March except for artificial lures and only 2 lines the open water salmon fishery was great.Now many salmon are destroyed in the winter and the spring fishery is poor
It's not whether stocked salmon are second class. The state stocks fish to provide fishing opportunities for anglers. When they prohibit taking salmon through the ice but they allow it from open water they are saying ice anglers are second class citizens.
Bingo, thank you.
The state stocks salmon to feed the pike...
At least we got some action out there . The togue there are a different color than from Sebago.
Togue been in there since last iceage.
Now that they feel that they are lots of small salmon in Sebago, maybe they should reduce stocking there and put those into the surrounding stocked waters. Thompson, long, and tricky could all see some more salmon put in. Then remove the special restrictions on Thompson. Fewer stocked salmon in Sebago could benefit the native population that is hopefully growing. Then if people actually harvested the togue all the better.
Stock new Atlantic Salmon or coho stock. State had a better hatchery 50 yrs ago than they have now, Get the politics out of way...….
Is a stocked salmon somekind of a second class citizen ?
A number of years ago I read in the maine sportsman that the only remaining true strain of sebago salmon were in so america, chile I think it was and were reaching tremendous size there. They were put in a river system and I believe are self sustaining. I would think they would retrieve that native strain. And why they ever stocked lake trout in 1 of the greatest landlocked salmon lakes on the planet makes zero sense to me.