General Ice Thickness Guidelines – For New, Clear Ice Only: 2″ or less: STAY OFF 4″: May allow ice fishing or other activities on foot 5″: Often allows for snowmobile or ATV travel 8″ – 12″: Supports most cars or small pickups 12″ – 15″: Will likely hold a medium sized truck. Get more information on […]
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Ready, set, go ice fishing in Maine!
You won’t catch anything without a quality ice rod and reel. These come in different lengths and actions. For panfish, an ultralight to light action rod between 20 and 30 inches in length will suffice. For walleye, a medium-light to medium rod between 24 and 36 inches will suffice. For trout or pike, a medium-heavy […]
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Open-water anglers won’t be wetting lines by April 1
WILTON — Finding open water on ponds and lakes for fishing April 1 — the traditional day to start open-water fishing — may be impossible without a flamethrower. Those waters are still buried under several feet of ice and snow. Just after 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, one lone ice angler on Wilson Pond trudged through nearly […]
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Maine program to provide fresh fish to the hungry
AUGUSTA (AP) — Needy families in Maine will receive donations of fresh fish caught at ice fishing tournaments this winter. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is expanding the Hunters for the Hungry Program to include fish caught at ice fishing derbies in New Gloucester in January and Sebago Lake and Kezar Lake […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, River Valley, The Franklin Journal
Ice fishing starts early on Roxbury Pond
ROXBURY — January temperatures arriving this month and in November, coupled with the lack of a thaw, helped set up ice earlier than usual on Roxbury Pond, Darla Patneaude said Thursday afternoon. Patneaude works at Ellis Pond Variety at 1255 Roxbury Notch Road. “The ice is thick enough, and we’ve got people out ice fishing […]