County Fishing report
The Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department’s issued this April 8, 2016 fishing report for Aroostook County.
If you are planning to go fishing in the northern part of Aroostook County, you are going to have to wait a bit longer.
“We had two mornings early last week where the temperature was below zero,” said Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife biologist Frank Frost, “and we still have full ice cover on our lakes and ponds.”
Rivers and streams have opened up, but most are still too high to fish. It also may take a while for rivers to subside to a fishable level as there is still two feet of ice on lakes and ponds and snowpack to the north and west.
About the only area that you can fish is in the Fish River below the falls. There are also some very minor ice openings in areas where tributaries flow into lakes.
With all this cold weather, when will the ice leave?
“Probably the first week of May, depending on the weather. For the last 20 years or so, that’s generally been the week of ice out,” said Frost.
