MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Jake
What was the biggest fish you caught, Brook Trout and Salmon?? Some of the salmon look a little thin, is this because they were hold overs?? Nice to see the fishing is picking up up your way.
Lee
P.S. Jake I edited your post and made the third picture the same size as all the others. Edit the post yourself and see how that was done.
Nice fish Jake . Hey I would have let those people on the other site just keep talking before I let them see what you caugt them on. Now you should get some sponser money for promoting their product Dave V
Quote by: LeeGoldsmithJake
What was the biggest fish you caught, Brook Trout and Salmon?? Some of the salmon look a little thin, is this because they were hold overs?? Nice to see the fishing is picking up up your way.
Lee
The biggest fish was the bass but one salmon was close in length about 18 inches and one brookie was 17. the salmon were all native. We can tell with salmon because they clip a fin off of the salmon before stocking them so we know when and where the were stocked. Every year the clip a different fin and that gives us and idea of how old they are as well. They are thin because the river was very low this winter because they let all the water out of Moosehead through the East Outlet. This caused the salmon to loose food because of the low flows. As far as the brookies it is very hard to tell if a brookie is stocked becuse they do not clip the fins of the fish. So if a brookie has been in the river for a year or two or three they will look like a native fish but migh have been stocked at some point usulay in the 8- 12 inch range. I call these adapted fish and if a brookie in this watershed is over 15 inches it is a good catch. One over 20 is a trophy whether it is stocked or native. I can usulay tell if the brookies are stocked or native by the colors and sometimes the fins are worn from being in the concrete runways but that is not a sure way of telling. If a fish has bright colors like this
it is native.
If it has dull colors and worn fins like this
it is stocked
and if it looks like this
it is a trophy I didn't catch this a biologist did electofishing but wat a brookie huh?
I hope this answered some questions Lee
Jake
That sounds good to me Jake.
Lee
Well in my fishing report I said the West Outlet was fishing good, I should have said it was fishing great!!! My friend Shawn and I caught 26 fish in tw hours and none of them were the recently stocked fish. Most of them were native fish with the exeption of a few hold overs from the last two years. We used a rubber smelt immitation that you will see in a few pictures. I usulay take it out before I take the pictures but I did this ti shut up some people on other forums that accused me of using live smelts. Wich I only do during Icefishing season. I do sometimes use crawlers but that is during the clold water period in the month of April and early May. But any way here are a few pics from the day we had.
this guy had been caught before his upper lip is split