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The biologist stopped in to talk to us that day and filled us in on the plight of the smelt population and gave us some numbers on the overblown size of the togue population.
Fill us all in on the #s and info please
Going to try to get up in that area during open water this year.
Seems like a bad precedent to me (wholesale killing of togue/ recommendation to use them as fertilizer or leave on the ice/ messing with the water levels to kill the eggs). Why couldn't they take some of them that were caught during the tourney, put em in a truck, and release them in a water short on togue ( they've done this in the past)?
thank you for the #s I personally like to hear stuff like that prob also explains why even I caught fish at moosehead this year lol
Good posts kai, lots of times I don't take the time to read long posts, but it was a good story of the weekend on the first post and good info in the 2nd. Sounded like a great time at Moosehead. Going to try to get up in that area during open water this year.
Seems like a bad precedent to me (wholesale killing of togue/ recommendation to use them as fertilizer or leave on the ice/ messing with the water levels to kill the eggs). Why couldn't they take some of them that were caught during the tourney, put em in a truck, and release them in a water short on togue ( they've done this in the past)? And what happened years ago when there was little or no fishing pressure there and the togue were spawning at will? I don't think they were all stunted and starving were they? Won't the togue feed on the small ones if the get hungry enough?
Now you got it. You're fitting in rather nicely on the Shanty, Jeremy.
Can you name me one lake that is short on togue? Anyways, it's highly illegal to move one fish from one lake to another. That's the number one reason we have so much trouble with a lot of our lakes now.
Can you name me one lake that is short on togue? Anyways, it's highly illegal to move one fish from one lake to another. That's the number one reason we have so much trouble with a lot of our lakes now.I couldnt find the stocking list but I'm positive there were a few lakes that the state stocked with togue last year. I dont know how conceivable it would be to try to keep them alive ice fishing in order to transport to a different lake. I cant imagine wasting them like that though, they're the perfect size for eating.
I believe one lake in Maine was stocked with togue last year. Lake Auburn.
I dont know if I missed any but here a few: sebec, nahmakanta, nickerson, auburn, millimagasset, millinocket and clear. Thats just the lakes the state could afford to stock, there are probably plenty more lakes that could support higher togue #'s