Love the Fishing (Bangor: how much, live, eat)

[maineborzoi]

Love this daily fishing in this Glorious Weather!

Please share your fishing events.

We have been going to Lewy Lake, Mettebemps lake, and Grand falls flowage the most. This fishing is great and totally love the relaxing time.

Small mouth bass, Land locked Salmon have been wonderful in Lewy Lake. The white perch run hasn't started yet- but we are waiting. And the fish are delicious ! ( maybe should start a thread on fish recipes

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Salmon just after ice-out taste great and they are hungry. The newly oxygenated water makes them energetic. If you are unfamiliar with them, get a few weeping willow spoons and some Swedish pimple **** in silver or gold colors. They may seem like funny names, but they work.

Hmm. The site doesn't like the name of a metal lure that is usually abruptly raised and allowed to flutter down.

[maineborzoi]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

Salmon just after ice-out taste great and they are hungry. The newly oxygenated water makes them energetic. If you are unfamiliar with them, get a few weeping willow spoons and some Swedish pimple **** in silver or gold colors. They may seem like funny names, but they work.

Trying to figure out why censored post... Do you have a picture of it?

[Coaster]

I'm curious, too, altho I think I know what he's referring to. Try posting the name with asterisks b*e*t*w*e*e*n the letters.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

j*i*g or j*i*g*s

A fishing lure you yank, jerk or twitch horizontally or vertically.

[bangorme]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

j*i*g or j*i*g*s

A fishing lure you yank, jerk or twitch horizontally or vertically.

Yeah, that's an old fashioned racial slur that I hadn't heard in 40 years lol.

[maineborzoi]

Originally Posted by bangorme

Yeah, that's an old fashioned racial slur that I hadn't heard in 40 years lol.

I am well over 50 and never heard in that fashion. Though I have heard it used as a form of Irish dance

[TheKezarWoodsman]

If i may ask, hows the mercury levels up in mid/northern maine, is it high, or low?

[bangorme]

Originally Posted by wolfhelm

If i may ask, hows the mercury levels up in mid/northern maine, is it high, or low?

Depends on the river. The Maine fishing regulation book contains a listing of how many fish you can eat out specific waters. PCB's are also a problem in certain areas, like watersheds that go through where the old Loring Air Force base was located.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Mercury levels in fresh water fish are perfectly safe. Some tuna has been found to have slightly elevated levels. Tuna travel great distances and I don't know where they go. Our other salt water fish are OK.

There was a furor over imagined dioxin problems several years ago. Then they showed that dioxin is natural and it is formed when old trees die and decay in the forest. Old trees that die a natural death are a good thing according to environmentalists so dioxin was no longer an issue. When is the last time you have seen an environmental organization issue an alert on dioxin?

People in Maine live longer than people in other states. Look at our obituaries and you'll frequently see people over 100 and many in their 90s. They ate locally grown food, local fish and fowl all their lives. One problem is that we are now able to measure parts per trillion of anything you want to measure. It's like the ozone hole over the North Pole. They sent a U-2 from Bangor to the North Pole and measured ozone. After one flight they issued a press release that the "ozone hole was bigger than ever before". Of course after one measurement there was no data for "before" and the newspapers just printed the article without ever asking such questions as "how much bigger? How big was it last year? How low did it used to be?