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Fishing report for item #251.

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"Want to catch a big largemouth?" Dave Ganter at Kittery
Trading Post says he has the right solution. "We have people in here
that are consistently catching huge largemouths. Here's their program,
which entails a combination of both stealth and live bait. Catch some
small leopard frogs. Look in shallow ditches and swamps. Keep them cool
and wet but not just floating in water. In a canoe or kayak, quietly
fish the weedy shorelines at dusk or very early in the morning. Be
prepared to catch a fish large enough to tow your canoe or kayak around
a bit," he laughed.
Dave also mentioned that the stretch of the Kennebec River between
Waterville and Sidney had been red hot for smallmouth bass and that
stripers were hitting very well along the Kennebec River outlet,
especially at Popham Beach. Also, one angler had hooked about a hundred
stripers fishing around the Route One Bridge over the Merrimack River in
the Salisbury, Newburyport area using cut herring.
Carroll Cutting at Jordan's Store in East Sebago just got back from
a trip to his camp on Indian Pond in the Moosehead area. "It was too hot
for fly fishing for trout and salmon, but our friend "Crab" did catch
some nice bass and a couple of salmon by trolling four to five colors of
leadcore line. Here on Sebago Lake the surface water along the beach got
up to 82 degrees but has since cooled off because of the winds."
One of Carroll's favorite customers and longtime Sebago fishermen,
Roger Bacon, was in the store, and we had a chat with him. "Last week, I
lost one of the best salmon that I've seen in a long time. It jumped
three times and finally threw the hook. The fish had taken a copper
Mooselook Wobbler with a red stripe at 30 feet. This morning, we had no
salmon hits but did catch one decent togue (lake trout) about five
pounds. We've been finding the togue in relatively shallow water, about
40 to 45 feet depth. That's apparently where the thermocline has set
up." (Roger likes to use wire line, which he marks every fifty feet with
tape, which he colors with fingernail polish.)
"I fished Big Kezar Lake again this weekend," Dave Garcia at Naples
Bait on Long Lake said. "We found the smallmouths on the ledges and
since the water has been warm, we downsized our tube baits and with a
bit of Smelly Jelly as an attractant, did very well. Here on Long Lake,
the trolling for brown trout in the five to seven pound range has been
excellent. There's also been some real quality salmon being caught--fish
that will go from 18 to 24 inches. DB Smelts fished on downriggers down
25 to 30 feet and fished very slowly has been the program. Over on
Sebago, togue fishing is still steady, but it's not the fast activity of
years past. They have a lot more baitfish now."
Rusty Harvey at River's Edge Sports in the Rangeley area was guiding
on Mooselookmeguntic Lake last week. "We probably landed close to 70
trout and salmon, but many of them were short. But we had several fish
that were from two and a half-pound to three pounds and one we caught
over four pounds. Most of our fish came on DB Smelts and sewed-on bait
trolled 40 feet down and slow, in the 1.2 to 1.8 mph range. The river
fishing has been slow, with the Magalloway below the power plant at
Wilson Mills providing some good action when the outflow of the dam is
right," Rusty noted.
At Saco Bay Tackle, Garon said to fish at night with pollock. "We
had a blast and caught stripers to 43 inches on live, cut and even dead
whole pollock. During the day, the fish we catch are a lot smaller. The
fish have moved out of the river because of warm water but there's
plenty out around the islands."

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