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Stocking Fish, Burning Spots & Why Maine is So Awesome

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Stocking Fish, Burning Spots & Why Maine is So Awesome

A few weeks ago, RIDEM placed 2,000 brook trout into four regularly stocked ponds: Barber, Silver Spring, Meadowbrook and Wyoming. Depending on who you ask, stocking hatchery fish is contentious, necessary, a nuisance to local wild fish populations, tax funded fishermen assistance or a wicked good reason to huddle over a frozen February pond. At least in this case the home schooled fish are brookies but Nature is not on their side when it comes to surviving a winter foraging for pellets dropped from on high.

Fishing For Salt Ponds and Public Access

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Fishing For Salt Ponds and Public Access

Salt ponds are teeming with ducks, geese, stripers and bait fish. Roads have cleared, parking has eased, boat ramps are open and there’s plenty of big pond-side windows with their shades drawn down ‘til Spring. An impending few months of relentless northwest winds will make you pick your day and earn a spot over rock piles and slightly warmer waters but there are holdover stripers in there so if you have the patience, gear and the right partner, this is the time to go fishing.

Bay Scallop Season & the Bright Green Lawns Which Destroy It

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Bay Scallop Season & the Bright Green Lawns Which Destroy It

While the fleet worked hard October bottom offshore, baymen rowed dories and sailed skiffs to drag dredges with rusty iron teeth meant for scanning sandy bottom teeming with shellfish that swim. The season was a savior for working men and women who relied on some endless bounty but history shows natural cycles, habitat degradation and the heavy hand of man all pressed on a tiny mollusk, the bay scallop.

Even when fishing gets complicated Capt. Rene Letourneau finds the fish

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Capt. Rene Letourneau finds the fish

Fishing and weather can be complicated.
In the wake of a lethargic swirling post-cyclone tropical whatever, waters have largely cleared and the fishing has finally turned back on. Stripers, blues, sea bass, scup, fluke and racing hardtails are feeding in the face of changing waters and shorter days. From The Sakonnet to Watch Hill, there are striped bass and blues to fight with spinning gear or on the fly but the best lure just might be a couple of characters.