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Years ago I saw fly fishermen on snowshoes up at Sourdnahunk Deadwater on the West Branch. The snow drift one of the fisherman was standing on collapsed and the fisherman went into the West Branch. My friend, Ken York, lowered the end of his canoe down to the approaching fisherman. He grabbed the canoe, pulled himself into it and several men pulled the canoe up the bank with the fisherman in it, just like a toboggan. I never heard whether the fly rod was saved intact. There are not many places where you need snowshoes to fly fish.
Open water season started today. Ice fishing should have closed yesterday in the northern section but we still have so much solid ice the state kept the season open through April 16.
I missed standing in Grand Lake Stream this morning. I didn't want to deal with snowy banks and the gray weather. Maybe tomorrow while it's sunny.
I checked the water surface temp of the small stream that runs next to the property; for the last 7 years it was a year long stream, however last summer/fall it dried up. Anyways, the temp was 27-28 degrees.
Too cold for great fishing. Not saying you can't catch them. However this stream never sees any sunlight really, I'm going to take few more readings at larger brooks and rivers this week, see what more sunny locations are at. I plan to start fishing when the water surface temp gets to 37ish, or the DFW/whatever they call it stocks the local ponds and rivers, whichever comes first.
A friend drilled a hole in Mattakeunk pond yesterday. There was 8 inches of white snow ice on top and 18 inches of hard clear ice under that. No water on top of the ice. There are several lakes that have ice-out contests. On Moosehead they get it down to the date and time. Moosehead has a lot more ice than our 26 inches. Ice-out is when you can boat from one end of the lake to the other end. Ice-out is not ice free. huge sheets of ice can move and totally block a cove so you cannot get back to camp by boat.
Smelt season may be a little late this year.
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