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richs

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I've been out on the ice up here in Western Maine since the 3rd week of December. The fishing for me (and many others I talk to) has been horrible thus far!!....a few early brookies and bass, then very, very slow everywhere :confused:

 

One theory from some of he old timers up here is that we had and extremely fast, drastic cool down. It went from 20's-30's to well below zero practically overnight. Some say this has sent the fish deep (even the trout) and made them very sluggish. All I know is that I'm not doing anything different and nothing seems to be working.

 

I didn't even bother going today. Will be back at it later next week...

 

I did manage this 16.5" rainbow Thursday (on the only flag I got after 5 hours as I was starting pull my traps :shock:).....first decent fish in a while....

 

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Also, that is a sick video!!.. I suggest watching on mute as the dude is pretty annoying :D

 

I love crappies and we have some pretty good waters, but they are considered a 4-letter word up here in trout country. Fine with me and hopefully I'll be icing some soon....:th:

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yea my season hasnt been great. the past few times ive gone out. my buddy has been chasing flags . like this one pond my buddy  loves. he kills it., i go out there ill get a flag or 2 while hes chasing flags all day. 



we went out to this pond on saturday. we had a lines going through this cove. i set up in the middle. i had one flag all day.  my buddies on both sides were getting fish, while i was waiting and waiting and waiting.  



they let me pull one of their flags. but thats if they had 2 flags up and a 3rd pops. they would check to see which one is running the fastest. id get the one that wasnt running.



so everytime i dont go they kill it. like my buddies went in december for 3 weeks, every weekend. murdered it. 40 fish day. i go, i caught 3. 



give this place a break. ice gets safe. my buddy catches 15 his first day out,  i meet him after work. i catch one.  my buddy catches 20 fish, i meet him there i catch 1. 



drives me crazy. 



cuz ill go to a different pond and slay the fish. 


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was out a couple weeks ago locally for a few hours. couple flags and iced a couple pickerel. missed a few jigging.

might be out this coming weekend depending on how the precip sets up for saturday.

the following week i will be out a few times and fully expect to be eating fresh fried perch nuggets as one of the picking dishes for super bowl sunday.

you been out Rich?

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Took a dozen people from the school fishing club out on Big Swartswood today. 1 pickerel. :(

 

Kids had fun though, and we're all hoping for another shot at the ice soon.

NOBODY here has a pass to blow out someone else's candle in order to make theirs shine brighter. TLDig[

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