Fish size, quality appear to be good

Journal Date: May 7th, 2009 | Filed Under: News

Editor’s note: Open-water fishing season is under way, and this week, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife previews Region F, Penobscot County. For previous fishing previews, from Regions A-E, and to purchase a fishing license, visit www.mefishwildlife.com.

Last week’s wind and rain, followed by the fantastically warm weather earlier in the week, has caused most of the lakes in Region F to shed their winter ice cover. In fact, many of the lakes in central Penobscot County have been ice-free for more than a week.

The ice at East Grand Lake in northern Washington County was breaking up last Thursday, and the entire lake should be ice-free by now. East Musquash Lake and the other lakes along Route 6 east of Lincoln have been ice-free for more than a week. The ice went out of Schoodic last Tuesday and Cold Stream Pond a week and half ago read more………

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