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1-1-1980 Maine Open Water Fishing Regulations, 1980 Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

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OPEN WATER FISHING REGULATIONS

DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES'ANP.WILDLIFE SUBSCRIBE NOW TO MAINE FISH AND WILDLIFE MAGAZINE A WORD ABOUT FISHING A quarterly publication, well illustrated, containing articles of last­ RATES IN U.S. ZIP CODE AREA In d icate subscription ing interest— not only to the outdoorsman but to youngsters and Single copy $ .75□ wanted.. Do not send REGULATIONS others of all ages. One year 2.50 □ stamps, please. Make check Two years 4.00 □ or money order payable to Statewide fishing laws and special regulations on individual Three years 5.50 □ Treasurer, State of Maine, waters are subject to annual changes. To determine what is legal FIRST NAME INITIAL LAST NAME fill in coupon completely on any body of water, you must check in three places: □ NEW □ RENEWAL and send to address below. (1) . Look for an entry for the water you are interested in under the appropriate county listing on the bottom of this side of your law STREET OR ROUTE OR BOX NUMBER folder and on the opposite side (see exceptions, below). Waters RATES NOT GUARANTEED LATER THAN JUNE 30, 1980 003 with names like “Third Mud Pond” will be listed alphabetically as Circulation Section “Mud Pond, Third.” Waters in more than one county are normally POST OFFICE ADDRESS Maine Fish and Wildlife Magazine cross-referenced to the first county alphabetically. 284 State Street, Sta. #41 (2) . Also check immediately below the county heading for any Augusta, Maine 04333 regulations that might apply on a county-wide basis. STATE ZIP CODE (3) . Read the general fishing laws on the top of this side of the folder. When any variance occurs between the general laws (3) and the special regulations (1 & 2), the special regulations supersede. FISHING LICENSES GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS Special regulations mean that the water listed differs from the RESIDENT FISHING TACKLE: It is illegal to fish with anything other than general law in the manner noted. All waters without special regula­ 16 years and older...... $ 9.50 single-baited hook and line, artificial flies, artificial lures, or spin­ tions are open to fishing under the general laws. Combination...... 16.50 ners. It is illegal to fish with more than two lines at Ihe same time. Exceptions to (1), above: For your convenience, there are 3 -d ay *...... 9.50 PROHIBITED IN TAKING FISH: Explosive, poisonous, or stupefy­ several exceptions to alphabetical listing of waters with special Leave or furlough * * ...... 5.50 ing substances; fish spawn (except Atlantic salmorr or landlocked regulations. Special regulations on border waters with New Hamp­ salmon eggs), grapnel, spear (see SUCKERS, below), spear gun, shire and New Brunswick are listed under separate headings. Also, NONRESIDENT trawl, weir, gaff, seine, gill net, trap, or set lines; electronic, sonic, several counties have waters that remain open through October for fishing for species other than trout, salmon, and togue; in most Season: age 16 and older...... $30.50 or battery powered devices. It is illegal to use or have in possession cases they are listed as a group at the end of the county’s alpha­ 12-15 years inclusive...... 4.00 a gill net on any inland waters. (Depth finders and devices used to betical listing of waters. Atlantic salmon fishing regulations are 1 5 -d a y ***...... ,...... 20.50 locate fish are legal.) 7-day...... 17.50 FISH HEADS AND TAILS NOT TO BE REMOVED: Neither heads contained in a separate publication. 3-day...... 9.50 nor tails may be removed from salmon, trout, togue, or black bass * May be exchanged for resident fishing license only, on (unless the fish are being prepared for cooking) unless the dressed payment of clerk's fee. length is equal to or greater than the legal length; smoking does * * Combination hunting and fishing license for Maine residents in not constitute cooking. RECENT CHANGES IN REGULATIONS U.S. armed forces, stationed outside Maine; valid during year STORING FISH AT PUBLIC PLACE: Trout, salmon, togue, and of issue. Sold by town clerks in town of residence. black bass kept in any sporting camp, hotel, or public lodging This regulations summary contains a large number of changes. ** * This is the only nonresident license that is exchangeable; for place must have name and address of person catching same Read it carefully before going fishing. Among the more significant $10.50 it may be exchanged for a season license. attached thereto. changes that should be noted are the following: The possession of fishing tackle in the fields, forests, or on the JIGGING: Jigging means fishing for, catching, or killing with a hook 1. General law length limit on togue increased to 16 inches. waters or ice of the state by any person without license is prima or hooks manipulated in such a manner as to pierce and hook a 2. Daily limit on smelts reduced to 2 quarts. facie evidence of fishing in violation of law. License shall be kept fish in any part of the body other than the mouth. Any fish which is 3. New daily limits for cold-water game fish and bass (see upon the person while fishing or transporting fish and shall be hooked in any part of the body other than the mouth shall be table). exhibited upon request to any warden, employee of the Fish and immediately released and returned alive without further injury to 4. Establishment of 6-inch length limit on brook trout in Wildlife Department, guide, or landowner. the water from which it was taken. brooks, streams, and rivers in most counties. GUIDE LICENSES: Resident, $34.00; nonresident citizen, $130.00; ADVANCE BAITING: It is illegal to deposit meat, bones, dead fish, 5. Establishment of an 8-inch limit on brown trout and rainbow alien, $155.00. Guide licenses allow fishing and hunting. Guides or parts of the same, or other food for fish in any inland waters for trout in brooks, streams, and rivers statewide. who use motorboats must have a motorboat operator’s license. the purpose of luring fish. 6. The 14-inch length limit on salmon applies to all counties. RESIDENCY: Providing proof of residency is the license appli­ INLAND WATERS: All waters within the state above the rise and 7. In Aroostook County, on Square, Cross, and Eagle lakes cant’s responsibility. For information on residency determination, fall of tide. and their thoroughfares, the daily limit is now 5 fish but not contact any license agent or the Fish and Wildlife Department, TRIBUTARY: A brook or stream flowing directly or indirectly into a to include more than 2 togue and 2 salmon. Augusta office. lake, pond, or another stream. A lake or great pond (over 10 acres) 8. On most of the waters in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, REPLACEMENT: A duplicate for a lost or destroyed resident is not considered to mean tributary. The tributary to a great pond the daily limit is now 5 fish of the trout and togue species, license is obtained from the clerk who issued the original license. is not considered a tributary to the outlet of that great pond. not more than one of which may be a togue. Also, the mini­ Duplicate licenses for nonresidents are issued by the Fish and WATER THOROUGHFARE: A waterway, without flowage, connect­ mum length limit on togue in these waters has been raised Wildlife Dept., Augusta office. ing 2 bodies of water. to 18 inches. ARMED FORCES: Persons in the following category may obtain PONDS FORMED BY BROOKS, STREAMS, AND RIVERS: A pond 9. There have been several changes in regulations on border any resident fishing, hunting, or combination license: Member of 10 acres or lesp, formed on a brook, stream, or river is governed by waters between Maine and New Brunswick (see listing). armed forces of United States who is permanently stationed at a the same fishing law that applies to the waterway on which it is 10. There have been a number of changes in Atlantic salmon military base in Maine and that person’s spouse and children, situated, whether the pond is natural or artificial. fishing regulations which are contained in a separate publi­ provided that spouse and children permanently reside with that THOROUGHFARES AND BOGS: The general laws governing lakes cation. person. and ponds also apply to thoroughfares and bogs. 11. Regulations changes made for Sebago Lake and all tributar­ FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS: A resident license to hunt or SALE OF CERTAIN FISH PROHIBITED: It is illegal to sell or buy, ies. fish may be purchased by any citizen of a foreign nation under 21 directly or indirectly, any landlocked salmon, trout, togue, black years of age who is domiciled with a Maine family pursuant to any bass, white perch, or pickerel except that pickerel may be sold in cultural or educational exchange program conducted by any gov­ Washington County. ernment, educational, cultural, or religious organization. SUCKERS: Between April 1 and June 30, persons licensed or ATLANTIC SALMON FISHING REGULATIONS BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CAMPS, to fish in lake or pond adjacent to otherwise entitled to fish may take suckers by hand spear or bow camp: a blanket license (children not over 16 years of age) and arrow in all rivers, brooks, and streams which are open to Regulations on Atlantic salmon fishing are contained in a publi­ an enrollment of less than 50 campers $40.00 fishing. Any arrow used for this purpose must have a barbed or cation of the Atlantic Sea Run Salmon Commission. Copies are an enrollment of not less than 50 campers and prong point and must be attached to the bow with a line. available from wardens and license agents in the vicinity of Atlantic not more than 75 campers 65.00 CLOSED SEASON: During the period of the respective closed salmon rivers and from the offices of the Fish and Wildlife Depart­ an enrollment of more than 75 campers 96.00 season, it is unlawful for any person to fish for, take, catch, kill, or ment, Marine Resources Department, and Atlantic Sea Run Salm­ CAMP TRIP LEADER’S PERMIT have in possession any fish of any kind from such closed waters. on Commission. (Initial qualifying fee) 10.00 FLY: FLY means a single-pointed hook dressed with feathers, hair, A stamp is required to fish for Atlantic salmon in all internal (Subsequent annual renewal) 5.00 thread, tinsel, or any similar material to which no additional waters of the state. Stamp required in addition to regular fishing LICENSE NOT REQUIRED: Persons in the following categories weights, hook, spinner, spoon, or similar device is added. license. Fees: Maine resident, 16 years or older, $1; Nonresident, may fish without a license: FLY FISHING: To cast upon water and retrieve in the usual and 16 years or older, $15. Stamps may be purchased from the Fish Landowners: Any Maine resident or members of his immediate ordinary manner, an unbaited, unweighted, artificial fly attached to and Wildlife Department, Augusta office, or from clerks of certain family may fish on land where they are domiciled and which is used a line to which no extra weight has been added. Except as other­ larger cities, certain larger sporting goods stores, or regular exclusively for agricultural purposes. wise provided, it shall be unlawful to troll a fly in waters restricted license agents in the vicinity of Atlantic salmon rivers. Children: Maine residents under 16 years of age and nonresi­ to fly fishing only. dents under 12. FFO: Abbreviation used frequently to designate waters restricted Patients at Veterans Administration Center: In-patients at the to fly fishing only. Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus may fish without a NLFAB: Abbreviation used frequently to designate waters in which license within a 25-mile radius of Togus. Patients not under the the use or possession of live fish as bait is prohibited. SUMMARY OF LITTER CONTROL LAW direct supervision of a hospital representative must have a valid FISH IMPORTATION: No person shall import any live fresh-water (Refer to statute for legal wording) pass from the VA Hospital. fish or eggs into Maine without written permission of the commis­ sioner. (A full copy of Maine’s fish importation law is available from No one shall dispose of litter by any method on any public or COMPLIMENTARY LICENSES: Persons in the following catego­ the Fish and Wildlife Dept.) private property or in the waters or on the ice of this state—except ries are entitled to free licenses upon application to the Augusta HELICOPTERS RESTRICTED IN CERTAIN AREAS: No person in areas or receptacles designated for such disposal. The fine for a office of the Fish and Wildlife Dept. shall use a helicopter for the purpose of transporting a sports first offense conviction is not less than $25 nor more than $100; the Maine residents over 70 years of age: Application must be fisherman or a sport fish to or from any pond under 10 acres in size fine for subsequent offenses is not less than $100 nor more than accompanied by birth certificate or other certified evidence of birth or any beaver flowage. $500. In addition, the guilty person may be directed by the court to date and residency. pick and remove from the property any or all litter deposited there­ Maine residents who are blind: Application must be accompa­ on prior to the date of execution of sentence. nied by certified evidence that applicant is blind (details available No one shall dispose of litter from any vehicle on private proper­ from Augusta office or any warden). ty or the right of way of public highways or on public parks, Indians: Free fishing, hunting, and trapping license is issued to CLOSED AREAS beaches, waters, etc., except in a place designated for such disposal. The operator of the vehicle, as well as the person dispos­ any Indian over the age of 10 of the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, FISHWAYS: No person shall fish within 150 feet of any dam in Maliseet or Micmac Tribes, providing the Indian presents a certifi­ ing of the litter, shall be in violation in such instance. Such viola­ which a fishway is located, except as follows: A. This limit is 50 feet tions will count as points under the point system of the Motor cate from the respective reservation governor or the president of at East Outlet dam in Sapling (T.1,R.7, Somerset County) and Big the Association of Aroostook Indians stating that the person Vehicles Division, and the court may suspend the operator’s Squaw Mountain (Piscataquis County). B. This limit is 75 feet from license for up to 30 days. described is an Indian and a member of that tribe. For this the mouth of the fishways in the Woodland dam and Grand Falls purpose, an Indian shall be any member on tribal lists of the No one shall dispose of litter from a boat; operator and the powerhouse dam in the St. Croix River in Baileyvitie <\N ashington person disposing of the litter shall be in violation. Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Tribes, or a person on the County) and East Grand Lake dam in T.9.R.4 and Spednic Lake membership list of the Association of Aroostook Indians and who dam (Washington County). C. The limit does not apply at the Bath has resided in Maine for at least 5 years. Tub, so called, in Rangeley River (Franklin County). Certain inmates and patients: Supervised groups from nursing This section shall not preclude the taking of alewives and smelts homes, certain other licensed facilities, and certain state institu­ in the manner provided under the laws regulating sea and shore LIVE BAIT tions may fish within a 25-mile radius of those facilities. Free permit fisheries. issued on request by head of facility. (Details from Augusta HATCHERY POOLS: All pools of state fish hatcheries and rearing ILLEGAL SPECIES: It is illegal to sell, use, or have in possession, office.) stations and all waters within 200 feet of such pools are closed to either dead or alive, for use as bait for fishing, any pickerel, gold­ Disabled war veterans: Maine resident combat zone veterans fishing. (Exception: Grand Lake Stream). fish, yellow perch, white perch, bass, sunfish, crappie, hornpout, with service-connected disability of 75% or more. INDIAN RESERVATIONS: It is unlawful for any person, except carp, or any spiny-finned fish. Paraplegics: Maine residents suffering from paraplegia or the members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indians as defined in TAKING BAIT FISH: Legal bait fish may be taken from inland loss of (or the loss of the use of) both lower extremities. Similarly Title 22, sections 4701 and 4832, to hunt, trap, or fish on any waters during the open fishing season (a few closed waters are afflicted nonresidents may also qualify provided their state of resi­ reservation lands of said tribe without written permission from the noted in special regulations section). The commissioner may grant dence extends the same privilege to Maine resident paraplegics. governor and council of the appropriate Passamaquoddy reserva­ permits to take bait fish from certain waters at any time. Any trap tion. used for taking bait shall bear the name and address of the person UNITY UTILITIES DISTRICT: No person shall fish or hunt on the who is using it. property owned by the Unity Utilities District located on Route 139 BAIT DEALERS LICENSED: All live bait dealers must be licensed. COMPLAINTS and Prairie Road in Unity, Waldo County. License information and regulations for live bait dealers may be obtained from the Department office in Augusta. Any person(s) who believe discrimination because of race, IMPORTATION OF BAIT FISH: It is illegal to import into Maine any color, sex, or national origin exists in a federally-assisted live fish, including smelts, which are commonly used for bait fishing program have the right to challenge such discrimination by in inland waters. making a complaint to the officials responsible for that FIRE PERMITS USE RESTRICTIONS: There are numerous waters— including all program. Complaints may be directed to the Maine Human waters of Baxter P^rk and in four entire watersheds in Piscataquis Rights Commission, State House Complex, Augusta, ME Using fire outdoors often requires a permit. Check with town fire County— where the use or possession of live fish as bait is prohib­ 04333. wardens in organized towns and with forest rangers in unorganized ited. The standard designation for such waters in this law summary territory. is NLFAB. 'Waters with special fishing and boating regulations

NOTE: The special regulations listed below take precedence over Horseshoe Pond, T.11,R.10. NLFAB. Daily limit on brook trout, 5 the general laws, above. (See A WORD ABOUT FISHING REGULA­ AROOSTOOK COUNTY fish. TIONS, above.) Hot Brook Lake, Lower, Bancroft, etc. Daily limit on white perch, Two abbreviations appear frequently: 25 fish. NLFAB = The use or possession of live fish as bait is prohib­ See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Hudson Pond, Upper, T. 11,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. ited. Hunnewell Lake and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, St. FFO = Fly fishing only. Season opens May 1 on all waters except as noted. John. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Where the words length limit are used, reference is to minimum Island Pond, T.15,R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. length limit. Season on brooks and streams: May 1-Sept. 15. General law bag Jones Pond and tributaries, T.20,R.11, etc. NLFAB. Where the word motorboat i£ used, it includes watercraft of any and possession limit is 12—salmon, trout, and togue, but not to Long Lake, Madawaska, St. Agatha, etc. Lake and tributaries kind, such as canoes and rowboats, that are equipped with include more than 2 salmon and 2 togue. Minimum length limit closed to the taking of smelts except by hook and line, except mechanical propulsion of any kind or size, even though the motor on togue, 18 inches. The 7’A pound provision applies. See also the following tributaries which are open to smelting under the is not in use. Border Waters with New Brunswick. general law: Mud Brook, Basil Brook, and Paulette Brook. See Daily Limit: The maximum limit, in number or amount of fish, Allagash Wilderness Waterway. See listing under Piscataquis other regulations under entry for Fish River Chain of Lakes. which may lawfully be taken by any one person during one day. Long Lake, T.11,R.13, etc. See Allagash Wilderness Waterway list­ County. ing under Piscataquis County. Where county lines divide a body of water, the more liberal bag Big Brook, T.13.R10, etc. No motorboats allowed on Big Brook limit shall apply. Lost Pond, T.15.R.6. NLFAB. from Burt Garrity Road to and including Big Brook Lake. Mantle Lake, Presque Isle. Fishing limited to: Persons younger Possession Limit: A person shall not have in his possession at Black Lake and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Ft. Kent. than 17 and older than 69; blind persons with complimentary any time more fish than he may lawfully take in one day. Whenever Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. No motorboats over 6 horsepower any waters have a special bag limit, no person shall have in his licenses issued by the Department; disabled war-veterans with allowed. complimentary licenses issued by the Department; and paraple­ possession more than 1 day’s bag limit taken from those waters. Black Lake, T.15.R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. gics with complimentary licenses issued by the Department. Black Ponds, Two, Little, T.15, R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Black River, Little, tributary to the St. John River. Motorboats with Mattawamkeag lakes, Upper and Lower, Island Falls, etc. Open more than 10 horsepower prohibited from June 1 to September from October 1 to October 31 for the taking of all fish except ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY 15. trout, salmon, and togue. Blake Lake, T.16.R.6. NLFAB. McCluskey Lake and tributaries. T.14.R.5; etc. Daily limit 5 Bran Lake, St. Francis. NLFAB. trout. See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Carr Pond, T.13,R.8. Daily bag and possession limit on salmon, trout, and togue: 5 fish; not more than 2 may be salmon; not Auburn Lake. Closed to fishing is the area of approximately 340 McKeen Lake, T.14,R.10. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. more than 2 may be togue. McLean Lake and tributaries, St. Francis. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 acres beginning at the post set in the ground on the shore of Carry Lake, Littleton Twp. Opens May 1. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 Lake Auburn about 2,500 feet westerly from the Auburn Water trout. trout. District intake; thence northerly about 300 feet to a point (buoy); McNally Pond, Upper, and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Chase Lake, First, T.14.R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. Fishing with artificial T.11.R.10. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. thence northeasterly about 2,500 feet to a point (buoy) about lures or worms only. Minimum length limit on togue, 16 inches. 3,300 feet northerly from the intake of the Auburn Water District; Meduxnekeag River, South Branch, Hodgdon. On that portion of Chase Lake, Second & Third, T.14.R.9. Minimum length limit on thence easterly about 2,500 feet to a point (buoy); thence south­ the river within the Lt. Gordon Manuel Wildlife Management togue, 16 inches. erly about 3,000 feet to a post on the shore of Lake Auburn and Area, no motorboats allowed until July 1; after July 1 no motor- Clayton Lake, T.12.R.8. Daily bag and possession limit on salmon, boats over 6 horsepower allowed. on the line between the Lake Grove lot and the Morrell farm, trout, and togue: 5 fish; not more than 2 may be salmon; not so-called; thence westerly by the shore of Lake Auburn to the Moccasin Pond, T.14,R.8. NLFAB. more than 2 may be togue. point of beginning. Auburn Lake and tributaries closed to the Mud Lake, T.17.R.4; etc. See regulations under entry for Fish River Crater Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, T.15.R.9. taking of smelts. Lake, tributaries, and outlet to barrier dam Chain of Lakes. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. closed to the spearing of all fish. Musquacook lakes, First, Second, and Third; T.12.R.11 and Cross Lake, T.16,R.5; etc. See regulations undtr entry for Fish Bartlett Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Liv­ T.11.R.11. Daily limit on trout and togue, 5 fish, not more than 1 erm ore. Daily bag limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of River Chain of Lakes. of which may be a togue. April. Daigle ponds (2) and tributaries, New Canada Pit. Daily limit 5 Negro Brook lakes (renamed in 1979 but remains on many maps. fish. NLFAB. Black (Snake) Pond, Turner. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last See Pelletier Brook lakes.) Saturday of April. Deboullie Lake, T.15.R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. North Pond, T.14.R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Deep Lake, Littleton. Opens May 1. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Mud Pond and tributaries, Turner. NLFAB. Daily limit of 5 fish. Number Nine Lake and tributaries, T.9.R.3. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Saturday of April. Denny Pond, T.15.R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Range Pond, Lower, Poland. No motorboats over 10 horsepower Eagle Lake, Eagle Lake, Wailagrass, etc. Lake and tributaries Pearce Brook, Houlton. Closed to fishing by persons 16 years of allowed. closed to the taking of smelts except by hook and line. See other age and over from Meduxnekeag River upstream to the Holly­ regulations under entry for Fish River Chain of Lakes. Round Pond, Livermore. No size or bag limit on bass or pickerel. , wood Road, so-called. Schillinger Brook, Poland. Closed to the taking of smelts. Echo Lake and tributaries, Presque isle. Daily limit 5 fish. Pelletier Brook lakes, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, NLFAB. Thompson Lake and all tributaries, Poland, Oxford, etc. Closed T.15 and 16,R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Eyelet Pond, T.11.R.12; T.12.R.12. NLFAB. to the taking of smelts. Length limit on togue, 16 inches. No Perch Pond and tributary, T.15,R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Ferguson Pond, T.14,R.8. Artificial lures only. Daily limit on brook Pleasant Lake, Island Falls and T.4.R.3. Use of 3 single pointed motorboats allowed in The Heath, the southernmost part of trout, 5 fish. Thompson Lake, separated from the main body by a cause­ hooks on one line for smelt fishing only, said hooks to be not less way. Fish Lake, See Fish River Chain. than 4 inches apart; tributaries closed to the taking of smelts. Fish River, See Fish River Chain. Portage Lake, T.13,R.6, W.E.L.S. No person shall operate any boat Wilson Pond, Little, and tributaries, Auburn and Turner. Closed to Fish River Chain of Lakes (this includes Fish, Portage, St. Froid, the taking of smelts. or canoe propelled by motor on that portion of Portage Lake Eagle, Square, Cross, Mud, and Long lakes), all thoroughfares Worthley Pond, tributaries and outlet to the barrier dam, Poland. known as the Floating Island Area, north and westerly of a line connecting these waters, and the Fish River. Daily bag and pos­ Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. beginning at the eastern edge of the marshy peninsula running session limit on salmon, trout, and togue: 5 fish; not more than 2 out from Hutchinson Ridge, running 50 yards outside of the The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except may be salmon; not more than 2 may be togue. Lawful to take floating islands in a northerly direction to the mouth of Mosquito trout, salmon, and togue from October 1st to October 31st: smelts by use of 3 single-baited hooks spaced a minimum of four Brook. See fishing regulations under Fish River Chain. Androscoggin Lake, Wayne and Leeds; Bear Pond, Big, Turner; inches apart, except that the thoroughfare connecting Mud and Pushineer Pond, T.15.R.9. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Berry Pond, Greene; Brettun’s Pond, Livermore; Hooper Pond, Cross lakes (marked by red posts) is closed to the taking of Robbins Brook Pond. T.12.R.10. Open to fishing with artificial fifes Greene; Lard Pond, Turner; Loon Pond, Sabattus; Mud Pond, smelts. The thoroughfares connecting Long, Mud, Cross, only. Daily limit 5 fish. Turner; No Name Pond, Lewiston; Rack Pond, East Livermore; Square, Eagle, and St. Froid lakes are open to fly fishing only Rockabema Lake, Moro Plantation. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Range Pond, Lower, Poland; Range Pond, Upper, Poland; Round from September 15-30 with a daily limit of 1 fish. Round Pond, T.14,R.8. Daily bag and possession limit on salmon, Pond, Turner; Round Pond, East Livermore; Sabattus Pond, Gallilee Pond, T.15.R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. trout, and togue: 5 fish; not more than 2 may be salmon; not Greene and Wales and Sabattus; Sandy Pond, Turner; School- Gardner Lake, T.15.R.9. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. more than 2 may be togue. house Pond, East Livermore; Spear Pond, Sabattus; Stone Mill Green Pond, Moro Pit. Fishing with artificial lures only. Daily limit 5 Silver Lake, T.15.R.5. Daily limit 5 trout. Pond, Durham; Sutherland Pond, Sabattus; Taylor Pond, Auburn; trout. Soldier Pond, Wailagrass. T.14,R.8. Daily bag and possession limit The Basin, Auburn; Tripp Lake, Poland; and Turner Pond, East Hanson Brook Lake and tributaries, Mapleton, etc. Daily limit 5 on salmon, trout, and togue: 5 fish; not more than 2 may be Livermore. fish. NLFAB. salmon; not more than 2 may be togue. PHONE NUMBERS General fishing laws YOU MIGHT NEED Refer to County Listings for Special Regulations Game Warden Headquarters Ashland 435-3231 OPEN SEASONS Greenville 695-2810 All dates are inclusive and apply to waters or portions of waters naturally free of ice Enfield 732-4500 WATERS GENERAL SEASON MAJOR EXCEPTIONS Machias 255-3266 Strong 778-3323 Most reclaimed ponds (trout ponds) open the last Sat­ 1. Lakes & ponds April 1-Sept. 30 urday in April. A good many waters are open in Octo­ Augusta 289-2175 ber; see county listings. Aroostook County: all waters Scarboro 883-5108 closed until May 1. If you are unable to locate a 2. Brooks & streams April 1-Aug. 15 Aroostook County, May 1-Sept. 15. warden at one of the above head­ Cumberland & York counties, April 1-Sept. 15. quarters, contact either the De­ April 1-Sept. 15 Aroostook County, May 1-Sept. 15. partment office in Augusta (289- 3. Rivers Atlantic salmon closes Oct. 15 on some rivers. 2766) or the nearest State Police barracks. DAILY BAG AND POSSESSION LIMITS Regional Fishery Biologist A person shall not have in his possession at any time more fish than he may lawfully take in one day. Regional fishery biologists can 1. Salmon The term “trout” includes brook trout, brown trout, also be contacted at the phone Trout rainbow trout, Sunapee trout, and blueback trout only. All counties except Aroostook: 8 fish of the salmon, Weight limit: No numbers listed above, with the Togue (lake trout) trout, and togue species, but net to include more than 3 person shall take, following exceptions: salmon and 3 togue. catch, kill, or have Augusta 289-2535 Aroostook County: 12 fish of the salmon, trout, and in possession at Scarboro 883-5106 togue species but not to include more than 2 salmon and any time more than Enfield 732-3234 2 togue. 7V* pounds in the No person shall take, catch, kill in any one day, or have in aggregate of salm- Strong 778-3322 possession at any time, more fish than stated above. on, togue, trout, or

Atlantic Salmon Commission 2. Black bass From April 1 to June 20, black bass may be taken on the last fish caught artificial lures only; daily limit 3 bass. After June 20, bass increases the corn- From Bangor 947-8627 may be taken under the general law; daily limit 5 bass, all bined weight to Maine Dept, of Inland Machias 255-3266 counties. In any waters where the bag limit on bass has more than 7 '/2 Fisheries and Wildlife been removed (see county listings), the seasons and pounds, 284 State Street methods of fishing for them are the same as for trout and State Police Sta. #41 salmon. Toll-free Numbers Augusta, Matne 04333 Skowhegan 3. Whitefish 8 fish. No size or weight limit. Thomaston 1-800-452-4664 10 fish (except no limit in Washington County). No size or weight Augusta 4. Chain pickerel limit. Scarboro 1-800-482-0730 5. White perch No size or bag limit. Orono 1-800-432-7381 Houlton 1-800-432-7384 6. Atlantic salmon 2 fish limit. See Atlantic salmon regulations. 7. Smelts 2 quarts in all counties. May be taken by dip-net at any time in waters or portions thereof which are naturally free of ice, except as otherwise prohibited by special regulation. 8. Alewives For personal or family consumption, a person may take (or possess) no more than one bushel of alewives daily from inland waters by use of a dip net or single hook and line. Alewives may not be taken from any waters in which another person or a municipality has been granted exclusive rights. 9. All other species No size or bag limit.

MINIMUM LEGAL LENGTH LIMITS SPECIES LENGTH MAJOR EXCEPTIONS Black bass 10 inches Salmon 14 inches \ Aroostook County, 18 inches. Exceptions In most counties. P lease I Togue (lake trout) 16 inches ] See county headings and individual waters. Don’t Litter (Published under appropriation 4550 in accor­ Brook trout Length limit is 8 inches on brook trout in lakes and ponds in SUGGESTIONS FOR HANDLING 6 inches dance with Section 7034, Chapter 703, Title 12 of Blueback trout Cumberland and York counties. Sunapee trout Revised Statutes of 1964 as amended) AND RELEASING GAME FISH Game fish, especially small salmon and trout, will survive when Brown trout & 12 inches on lakes and ponds; 8 inches on brooks, streams, and rivers. Rainbow trout you release them properly. Your fishing methods and how you handle the fish you release do make a difference in determining their survival. The fish you release must be released as quickly as possi­ BORDER WATERS BETWEEN MAINE AND ble. NEW HAMPSHIRE The longer a fish is out of water, the greater the possibility that it Balch Pond, Acton and Newfield, Maine; Wakefield, New will die. Be careful not to squeeze the fish when handling. Hampshire Bait fishermen (summer or winter). Hook sizes number 4 or THE CODE OF ~ *Great East Lake, Acton, Maine; Wakefield, New Hamp­ larger are recommended. Larger hooks are harder for fish to swal­ THE MAINE WOODS shire. HIGHLIGHTS OF MAINE BOATING LAW low, and easier for fishermen to grasp. Hence, fish can be quickly Horn Pond, Acton, Maine; Wakefield, New Hampshire. released with larger hooks. Always Carry Out Cans, Lords Pond, Parsonsfield, Maine; Effingham, New Hamp­ Fishermen who use boats should be sure their craft are properly WHEN A SMALL FISH SWALLOWS YOUR HOOK, CUT THE Bottles and Other Litter v shire. registered, equipped, and operated as required by the Maine boat LEADER CLOSE TO THE FISH'S HEAD, THEN RELEASE IT You Cannot Legally ' Lower Kimball Pond, Fryeburg, Maine; Chatham, New law. Highlights of this law are stated below. For a complete copy of QUICKLY! the law, an application to register your boat, or further information, Burn In Your Campfire. Hampshire. Strong stomach acids and water will quickly dissolve a hook. Milton Pond and Northeast Pond, Lebanon, Maine; Milton, contact the Division of Recreational Safety and Registration, 284 Why save a penny hook and kill a game fish that will be worth much New Hampshire. State St., Augusta, Maine 04333. Phone: 289-2766. Note: Certain more if it can live and grow to legal size? Province Lake, Parsonsfield, Maine; Effingham, Wakefield, waters have restrictions on the use of motors on watercraft; for Nickel-plated, bronze, and blued hooks break down more easily New Hampshire. your convenience, these are listed with the special fishing regu­ than stainless steel or gold-plated hooks and are preferable when Keep Maine Scenic * Salmon Falls River, Acton, Berwick and South Berwick, lations. fish are released by snipping leader material. STATE OFFICE BUILDING. AUGUSTA. MAINE 04333 Maine; Milton, Rochester, Somersworth and Rollinsford, New 1. Maine’s boat law is federally approved. The law requires that Lure fishermen. Lures with large hooks (sizes number 6 or larg­ Hampshire. any boat equipped with machinery of any horsepower be er) are recommended for better survival of fish released. Use long Spaulding Pond, Lebanon, Maine; Milton, New Hamp­ registered. This includes boats of any kind, such as sailboats, nose pliers to remove hooks quickly and safely. shire. canoes, dinghies, and rowboats that are equipped with Larger hooks are harder for small fish to swallow, thereby reduc­ *Umbagog Lake, Upton, Maine; Cambridge and Errol, New mechanical propulsion even though the motor is not in use. ing possibilities of internal damage. Long nose pliers usually make Hampshire. License is good for 3 years. Assigned registration number hooks easier and safer to grasp. Hence, small fish can be quickly must be displayed on both sides of the bow of the boat. In released. Live Bait for Fishing: addition, the law also requires the display of a validation BORDER WATERS BETWEEN MAINE AND REPORT MARKED FISH NEW BRUNSWICK It shall be unlawful to take, sell, use, or have in possession sticker which is issued upon registration. This sticker, which either dead or alive, for use as bait for fishing in the herein- indicates the registration expiration date, should be located IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY: St. Francis River, Glazier Lake, In many Maine waters, anglers are apt to catch fish that have named waters, any pickerel, goldfish, yellow perch, white at the end of each boat number. The registration certificate been tagged or fin-clipped by Fish and Wildlife Department St. John River, Monument Brook, North Lake, The Thorough­ perch, bass, sunfish, crappie, horned pout, carp or any spiny- must also be aboarcTwhen boat is being operated. fare between North and East Grand Lake, and East Grand personnel. Anglers are requested to report all fish tagged or with finned fish. 2. Boats validly registered in other states having a federally fins removed to any regional fishery office or the Department’s LgRg Open Water Season: approved law can operate without licensing in Maine. Augusta office. The information you provide helps to determine IN WASHINGTON COUNTY: East Grand Lake, Mud Lake, Fishing through natural openings in the ice from April 1 to 3. Watercraft less than 16 feet (and all canoes and kayaks St. Croix River, Spednic Lake, and Grand Falls flowage. movements, rate of growth and abundance of fish, and the success September 30 for all species. Closed to all fishing—October 1 regardless of length) must carry at least one Coast Guard of stocking programs. Your co-operation in these fishery research The following regulations apply on the waters named to ice-in. approved personal flotation device for each person aboard; above: and management projects will help to make better fishing in the Limits: can be either Type I, II, III, or IV (buoyant cushion). Craft 16 future. Open season: April 15 through September 30. Brook trout (includes rainbows and browns), lake trout, feet or longer must carry either a Type I, II, or III for each Please report the following information on tagged or marked Daily bag limits: 10 game fish (or 7’/2 pounds) but not to and salmon: limit, 8 fish or 7’/2 pounds in aggregate. Brook person aboard PLUS one Type IV device immediately avail­ fish: include more than 6 fish in the aggregate of landlocked salm­ trout: length limit, 6 inches. Lake trout and salmon: length able in boat. 1. Species. on or togue. For this purpose, game fish include trout, land­ limit, 14 inches. Bass: 5 fish; no length limit; no weight limit. 4. Boating accidents involving personal injury, death, or proper­ 2. Location caught. locked salmon, togue (lake trout), and black bass. Other Pickerel: 10 fish; no length limit; no weight limit. Bullhead ty damage estimated at 100 dollars or more must be reported 3. Date caught. species: Whitefish— 8 fish. Smelts—2 liters. Coarse fish (all (hornpout): no length limit; no weight limit; no creel limit. to Division of Recreational Safety and Registration. 4. Send tag or record of fins removed. species not listed, except Atlantic salmon)— no limit. White perch and yellow perch: no length limit; no weight 5. Operation to endanger persons or property, in a reckless 5. If convenient, data on total length, weight, and a scale sample Minimum length limits: limit; no creel limit. manner, or under the influence of alcohol or drugs, is prohib­ Landlocked salmon — 14 inches from side of fish below the dorsal fin. The scales may be ited. removed with a knife and stuck to a piece of paper which Togue— 16 inches *Exceptions Prudent and reasonable speed required at all times. should then be folded to contain the scales. Bass— 10 inches Great East Lake, Acton, etc. Length limit on brown trout, Water skiing requires observer and operator in tow boat; no Trout—6 inches 14 inches. Daily limit on togue, 3 fish. Length limit on togue, skiing within 200 feet of shoreline except to launch or 1. Dorsal Equipment: Not more than one line per person. TAKE SCALES 18 inches. Open to smelting by single hook and line only. discharge skier; no skiing ’/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour 2. Adipose Legal hours: From two hours before sunrise to two hours Tributaries closed to smelting. before sunrise; skier must wear a flotation device. HERE 3. Anal after sunset. Legal fishing hours and open season herein do Salmon Falls River. Brook trout season April 1 to Septem­ 8 . No person under 12 years of age shall operate a boat of more not apply to the taking of smelts from waters or portions ber 15; length limit, 6 inches; 8 fish or 7% pounds in the than 10 horsepower, unless under the immediate supervision 4 . Right ventral thereof naturally free of ice. aggregate. of a person who is at least 16 years of age. 5. Left ventral Bait: Use or possession of spiny-finned fish for bait is pro­ Umbagog Lake. Salmon or brook trout limit, 5 fish or 71/2 9. All watercraft must display lights while operating between hibited. pounds per day in aggregate. sunset and sunrise and carry such other safety equipment as 6. Right pectoral is required by federal and state laws. 7 Left i pectoral

Squapan Lake, Masardis, etc. Tributaries closed to the taking of Sebago Lake and all tributaries. See additional rules below under Caribou Bog, so-called, Chain of Ponds Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 Massachusetts Bog, Massachusetts Gore. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. smelts: Crooked, Jordan, and Songo rivers. A. Daily bag and possession fish. Midway Pond, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Square Lake, T.15,R.5; etc. See regulations under entry for Fish limits on salmon, trout, and togue: 3 fish, singly or in combina­ Carrabassett River, from its source in Carrabassett Valley to a Mooselookmeguntic Lake. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Unlawful to River Chain of Lakes. tion. Bass may be taken under the general law, as long as total point at East New Portland where Route 146 crosses the river. fish with any flies, lures, or bait with other than a single-pointed St. Froid Lake, Winterville, etc. Lake and tributaries closed to the weight of salmon, trout, togue, and bass does not exceed 7’/2 FFO. hook or tandem single-pointed hook. Lake and tributaries taking of smelts except by hook and line. See other regulations pounds. B. Minimum length limit on salmon: 16 inches; on togue, Clearwater Pond, Farmington, etc. No size or bag limit on bass. closed to the taking of smelts. under entry for Fish River Chain of Lakes. 18 inches. C. No bag limit on pickerel. D. Smelts may be taken by Tributaries closed to taking of smelts. Mountain Pond, Rangley Pit. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Stink Pond, T.15,R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. hook and line only. E. No fishing within 100 feet of White’s Cow Pond, Lang Twp. T.2.R.3. NLFAB. Mount Blue Pond and tributaries, Avon Twp. Closed to the taking Timoney Lake and tributaries, Oakfield, etc. Daily limit 5 fish. Bridge. F. From Oct. 1-31, the area designated by red markers at Crosby Pond, Coburn Gore. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. of smelts except by single hook and line. NLFAB. No motorboats over 10 horsepower allowed. Sebago Lake Station is open to fly fishing only, with barbless Cupsuptic Lake. NLFAB. Unlawful to fish with any flies, lures, or Moxie Pond, Twp. D. Daily limit 5 fish. FFO. Trafton Lake and tributaries, Limestone. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 hooks, from shore and dock only; all fish caught must be bait with other than a single-pointed hook or tandem single- Mud Pond, T.2.R.4. See Tim Pond. trout. released at once. pointed hook. Daily limit 5 fish, except that portion of Cupsuptic Mud Pond, Berlin No. 6. NLFAB. Two Mile Pond, T.16.R.14; etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Lake at the mouth of the Kennebago and Rangeley rivers from Mud Pond, Coburn Gore. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Umsaskis Lake, T.11.R.13, etc. See Allagash Wilderness Water­ Additional rules: red markers on outer boom piers to the confluence of the above Mud Pond, Jim Pond Twp. NLFAB. way listing under Piscataquis County. Crooked River. From the dam at Bolster’s Mills downstream to rivers, fly fishing only until September 30, daily limit 1 fish. Lake Northwest Pond, T.3.R.6. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Upper Pond, T.15.R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Route 11 in Casco: fly fishing only, at all times; from June 15- and tributaries closed to the taking of smelts. Northwest Pond, Little, T.3.R.6. FFO. Daily limit 5 fteh. Weeks Pond, T.11.R.8. NLFAB. Sept. 15— daily bag and possession limit on salmon, trout, and Day Mountain Pond, Avon. Closed. Parker Pond and tributaries, Chesterville, etc. See listing under togue: 2 fish, singly or in combination. ■ From th% confluence Dead River, North Branch, and tributaries. Daily limit 5 fish. Kennebec County. with the Songo River upstream to the first bridge, from April FFO. Pinnacle Pond, Kingfield. Opens last Saturday of April. NLFAB. 1-May 15: daily limit on salmon— 1 fish. ■ From Route 117 Dead River, South Branch. Daily limit 5 fish. Open until Sept. 30. Daily limit 5 fish. CUMBERLAND COUNTY downstream 400 feet to two red posts: artificial lures only from Dodge Pond, Rangeley. NLFAB. Podunk Pond, Carthage. NLFAB. June 15-Sept. 15, with daily bag and possession limit on salmon, Dutton (Shiloh) Pond, Kingfield. NLFAB. Porter Lake, Strong and New Vineyard. Tributaries closed to the trout, and togue 2 fish, singly or in combination. ■ From Route Eddy Pond, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. taking of smelts. 117 downstream to Route 11: no length or bag limit on bass. Ell Pond (L), T.3.R.5. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Quimby Pond, Rangeley. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Closed for 20,000 See general laws—exceptions follow: ■ The entire river, Sept. 16-30—fly fishing only; daily bag and Ethel Pond, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. square feet around the Wilbur Spring. No motorboats allowed. Season on all Cumberland County brooks and streams: April 1 possession limit— 1 salmon or 1 trout or 1 togue. Egypt Pond and tributaries, Vienna, etc. Daily bag limit 5 trout. Rangeley Lake. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Unlawful to fish with any to Sept. 15. Length limit 8 inches on brook trout in all lakes and Jordan River. Closed to all fishing from the bridge on Route 302 NLFAB. Opens to fishing last Saturday of April. flies, lures, or bait with other than a single-pointed hook or tan­ ponds. upstream to two red posts set below the hatchery pool; open to Farmer’s Brook, tributary to Varnum pond, Wilton. Closed to the dem single-pointed hook. Length limit of 8 inches on trout in lake fishing from dam at Panther Pond down to aforementioned red taking of smelts. and tributaries. Lake and tributaries closed to taking of smelts. Adams Pond, Bridgton. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens the last posts; no fishing from aforementioned bridge or approaches. Flat Iron Pond, Davis Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Rangeley River. Closed to taking of smelts. That portion of Ran­ Saturday of April. Songo River. From Sebago Lake to the first bridge above Songo Grant’s Pond, Massachusetts Gore. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. geley Lake and Rangeley River from two red posts set about 300 Clark’s Pond, on Westbrook St., South Portland. Fishing restrict­ Locks, from April 1 to May 15: daily limit on salmon: 1 fish. Greely Pond, Dallas Pit. NLFAB. feet above the fish screen downstream to the confluence of the ed to children 16 years of age and younger. Greely Pond, Little, Dallas Pit. NLFAB. Rangeley and Kennebago rivers is open to fly fishing only, daily Coffee Pond and tributaries, Casco. Opens last Saturday in April. Stevens Brook, New Gloucester, sometimes called Cemetery Grindstone Pond and tributaries, Kingfield. Daily limit 5 fish. limit one fish, until September 30 each year. This applies also to Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Length limit on Sunapee trout, 8 Brook. Closed to fishing to all persons over 16 years of age from NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. the Bath Tub, so-called. Pools of the fishway in Rangeley Lake inches. No length limit on smallmouth bass. Closed to the taking Church Road, so-called, to the Gloucester Hill Road, including Gull Pond, Dallas Pit. Daily limit 5 trout or salmon. NLFAB. dam are closed to fishing at all times. of smelts except by hook and line. the small pond just above the northerly side of the Gloucester Haley Pond, Rangeley, etc. NLFAB. No motorboats over 6 horse­ Rapid Stream, Kingfield, etc. FFO. Crooked River, Casco, etc. See Sebago Lake and tributaries. Hill Road. power allowed. Redington Pond, Redington Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Crystal Lake (Dry Pond) and tributaries, Gray. Closed to the Sucker Brook, tributary to Moose Pond, Bridgton. Closed to tak­ Harvey Pond, Madrid. NLFAB. Rock Pond, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. taking of smelts except by hook and line. ing of smelts. Hathan Bogs, Coburn Gore. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Rock Pond, T.2,R.6. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Gay Brook, Raymond. From main highway to Raymond Pond (Lit­ Thomas Pond, Raymond, etc. Daily limit 5 brown trout. HiHs Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Perkins Pit. Ross Pond, Rangeley Twp. FFO. tle Rattlesnake Pond), closed to the taking of smelts. Thompson Lake, Casco, etc. See regulation under Androscoggin Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday in April. Round Pond, Twp. E. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Jordan River. See Sebago Lake and tributaries. County. Horseshoe Pond, Coburn Gore, etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Round Pond, Rangeley. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Lakin Brook, Sebago. Closed to the spearing of suckers. Valley Brook, Raymond, tributary of Little Rattlesnake Pond, now Huston Brook, T.3.R.2 and Dead River Pit., (Somerset County). Round Mountain Lake, T.2.R.5. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Lily Pond, New Gloucester. Open from last Saturday in April to known as Raymond Pond. Closed to the taking of smelts. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. Sabbathday Pond, Twp. E. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. September 30; daily limit 5 trout; no bag limit on pickerel. No Island Pond, Big. T.3.R.5; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Saddleback Lake, Dallas Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. motorboats allowed. The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except Island Pond, Little, T.3.R.5, FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Saddleback Pond, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Miller Brook (tributary to Moose Pond), Bridgton. Closed to the trout, salmon and togue from October 1 to October 31: Jim Pond, T.1.R.5. NLFAB. Saddleback Pond, Little, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 taking of smelts. Beaver Pond, Bridgton; Dumpling Pond, Casco; Ingalls (Fos­ Jim Pond, Little, T.1.R.5; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. trout. Northwest River. See Sebago Lake and tributaries. ter’s) Pond, Bridgton; Moose Pond, Upper, north of Rt. 302, John’s Pond, T.3.R.3. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Saddleback (Cascade) Stream and tributaries. Sandy River Pit. Nubble Pond, Raymond. No bag limit on pickerel. Lake, tributar­ Bridgton; Range Pond, Upper, New Gloucester; Woods Pond, Kamankeag Pond, T.3.R.3. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Closed to fishing from Rangeley Water Company dam to its ies, and outlets closed to taking of smelts. Bridgton. Kennebago Lake, Big, Davis Twp., etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. junction with the outlets of Midway and Eddy ponds. Panther Pond, Raymond. Rolfe Brook and the area of Panther Tributaries closed except little Kennebago Stream. Sandy River ponds, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Pond within 200 feet of its mouth are closed to the taking of Kennebago Lake, Little, T.3,R.4. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. No motor- Schoolhouse Pond, Avon. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. smelts. FRANKLIN COUNTY boats allowed. Secret Pond. T.3.R.5. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Peabody Pond and tributaries. Naples, etc. Closed to the taking of Kennebago River. FFO from Big Island Pond to Little Kennebago Snow Mountain Pond, T.2.R.5. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. smelts except by hook and line. See Lakin Brook. Lake, daily limit 5 fish. From Little Kennebago Lake to Big Ken­ South Bog Stream, Rangely Pit. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. nebago Lake, all tributaries closed, FFO, daily limit 5 fish, open South Boundary Pond, T.3.R.6. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Pleasant Lake, Casco, etc. Lake and tributaries closed to the tak­ See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: ing of smelts. Minimum length limit on salmon, 12 inches. Daily until September 30. From outlet of Big Kennebago Lake down to South (Pine Tree) Pond, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. limit on salmon, 5 fish. Alder Stream. See Dead River, North Branch. the second (power) dam, FFO, daily limit 5 fish, open until Sep­ Spencer Pond, Twp. D. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Raymond Pond (Little Rattlesnake), Raymond. Daily limit 5 brown Arnold Pond, Coburn Gore. Daily limit 5 fish. FFO. tember 30. Below second dam, tributaries closed, FFO, daily Staples Pond and tributaries, Temple. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. trout. Pond and tributaries closed to the taking of smelts except Barnard Pond, Eustis Twp. NLFAB. limit 1 fish, open until September 30. Closed to the taking of Pond opens last Saturday of April. by hook and line. Beal Pond, (Trout Pond), Madrid. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. smelts. Stratton Brook ponds, T.4.R.3. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Rolfe Brook, Raymond. See Panther Pond. Beaver Mountain Lake. See Long Pond, Sandy River Pit. Kimball Pond and tributaries, New Sharon, etc. Daily limit 5 trout. Stetson Pond, Phillips. NLFAB. Royal River, from 150 feet below Yarmouth dam downstream to Beaver Pond and tributaries, Twp. D. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. NLFAB. Opens to fishing May 15. Tea Pond, Jim Pond Twp. NLFAB. Pond and tributaries closed to tidewater, Yarmouth. Minimum length limit on brown trout, 12 Opens last Saturday of April. Ledge Pond, Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. the taking of smelts except by single hook and line. inches. Season extended to Nov. 30 with daily limit not to include Beaver Pond, Seven Ponds, Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Long Cove Pond and tributary and outlet to barrier dam, Phillips. Tim Pond and Mud Pond, T.2,R.4. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Tribu­ more than 1 brown trout or 1 brook trout from Sept. 16-Nov. Bemis Stream, Rangeley Pit., Twp. D. Fly fishing only from April 1 NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last Saturday in April. taries closed. 30. until September 14, from red posts on Mooselookmeguntic Lake Long Pond, Twp. D. and E. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. No motor- Toothaker Pond, Phillips. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Sabbathday Lake, New Gloucester. Tributaries closed to taking of to north side of railroad bridge at summit. Daily limit 5 fish. boats of more than 10 horsepower allowed. Saturday of April. smelts. Lake closed to taking of smelts except by single hook Tributaries closed. Long Pond, (Beaver Mountain Lake), Sandy River Pit. NLFAB. Tufts Pond, Kingfield, NLFAB. and line. Daily trout limit 5 fish. Blanchard ponds, Davis Twp. etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Daily limit 5 fish. Tumbledown Pond, Berlin No. 6. NLFAB. Saco River. See regulations under York County. Blanchard Pond, Alder Stream Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Long Pond, Seven Ponds Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Varnum Pond, Wilton and Temple. NLFAB. See Farmer’s Brook. Scarborough wildlife management area. No motorboats on that Boundary Pond, Beattie Twp. NLFAB. Long Pond Stream, tributary to Rangeley Lake. Closed. Walton’s Mill Pond, W. Farmington. No motorboats allowed. portion of the area upstream of the abandoned railroad right of Bugeye Pond, Kibby Twp. NLFAB. Loon Lake, Rangeley, etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. No motorboats Webb Lake and tributaries, Weld. Closed to the taking of way from March 1 to September 30. Butler Pond, Kingfield. NLFAB. allowed. smelts. O 0 Foss and Knowlton ponds, T.2 and 3.R.10. FFO. Daily limit 5 HANCOCK COUNTY OXFORD COUNTY PENOBSCOT COUNTY fish. Fox Pond, T.A..R.11. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Fowler Pond, T.3.R.11. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. See general fishing laws — exceptions follow: See also Border Waters with New Hampshire. See general fishing laws — exceptions follow: Frost Pond and tributaries and outlet down to red marker at natural barrier, T.3,R. 11; etc. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens Beech Hill Pond, Ellsworth, etc. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Abbie Pond, T.4.R.6. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. Baxter State Park. See regulations under Piscataquis County. last Saturday of April. Bogus Meadow Pond and tributaries, Twp. 7,S.D. Daily limit 5 Abbott Brook, Mexico. Closed to fishing by persons over 16 years Bowlin Pond, T.5.R.8. FFO. Frost Pond, Little, and tributaries, T.3.R.12. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. of age. Daily limit 5 fish. Branns Mill Pond, Garland and Dover-Foxcroft. Open to fishing fish. Branch Lake, Ellsworth. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. See Abbott Pond, Sumner. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Sat­ April 1 to October 31. Garland Pond and tributaries, Dover-Foxcroft, etc. NLFAB. Daily Dean Brook. urday of April. Cold Stream Pond, Enfield, etc. Daily limit shall not include more limit 5 trout. Opens last Saturday in April. Chicken Mill Pond and tributaries, Gouldsboro, etc. Daily limit 5 Anasagunticook Lake and tributaries, Hartford, etc. No size or than 2 salmon and 2 togue. Minimum length limit on togue, 18 Gauntlet Pond and tributaries and outlet, T.B..R.10. NLFAB. fish. NLFAB. bag limits on bass and pickerel. Sparrow Brook closed to the inches. Pond and all tributaries closed to the taking of smelts Grassy Pond, T.8.R.10. NLFAB. Craig Pond, Orland. Length limit on brook trout, 12 inches. Daily taking of smelts. except by hook and line. Greenwood Pond, T.B..R.11; etc. NLFAB. bag and possession limit on brook trout, 2 fish. Aunt Hannah Brook. Dixfield. Open to fishing for children 16 years Green Pond and tributaries and outlet down to barrier dam, Lee Greenwood Pond, Little, Elliottsville. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Crystal Pond, T.40.M.D. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Sat­ and younger from a point where it crosses Route 142 to its and T.3.R.1. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of Grenell Pond, Greenville. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. urday of April. mouth at Webb River. April. Grindstone Pond, Willimantic. NLFAB. Dean Brook, Ellsworth, and that part of Branch Lake known as Aziscohos Pond, Magalloway Pit. NLFAB. Green Mountain Pond, T.6.R.6. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Hale Pond, T.2,R. 10. Daily limit 2 trout. Length limit on trout, 12- Dean Brook Cove from the mouth of Dean Brook to a straight Aziscohos Lake, Lincoln Pit., etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Fly Hatcase Pond, Dedham, etc. See Hancock County. inches. Artificial lures only. line between two red posts set on opposite sides of Dean Brook fishing only in that part of Aziscohos Lake north of a straight line Hopkins Pond, Mariaville. See Hancock County. Harrington Lake, T.3.R.11; etc. NLFAB. Daily limit may not include Cove. Closed to the taking of smelts. between the red post by the Brown Company landing, and the Ireland Pond, T.7.R.8. NLFAB. more than 2 togue, 3 salmon, or 5 trout. Length limit on togue, Donnell Pond, Franklin, etc. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Daily red post at the point where the Big and Little Magalloway rivers Jerry Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Millinocket, 18 inches. limit on togue, 2 fish. join, and the area of water north of a straight line between the etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Saturday of April. No Harrington Pond, T.3, R. 11. FFO. Eagle Lake, Bar Harbor. Daily limit on salmon, trout, and togue, 5 two red posts at each end of Wheeler Dam on the Little Magallo­ motorboats allowed. Haymock Lake, T.7,R.11,T.8,R.11. Daily bag and possession limit fish, not to include more than 2 salmon, 2 togue, or 5 trout. way Arm of Aziscohos Lake; daily limit 5 fish Dn these waters Johnny Mack Brook, Orono. Restricted to fishing only by children on trout and togue: 5 fish, not more than 1 of which may be a Length limit 16 inches on salmon, 18 inches on togue, and 6 except from September 1 to September 30 when the daily limit is under 16 years of age. togue. Minimum length limit on togue, 18 inches. inches on brook trout. No motorboats over 10 horsepower 1 fish. JoMary Lake, Upper, and tributaries, T.A..R.10; etc. Closed to the Henderson Pond, T.A..R.11. NLFAB. allowed. B. Pond, Upton. NLFAB. Daily limit on salmon, trout, and togue, 2 taking of smelts except with single hook and line. Holbrook Pond, T.2.R.11; etc. NLFAB. Echo Lake and tributaries, Mt. Desert, etc. Length limit on brook fish, singly or in combination. Jones Pond, T.7.R.8; etc. NLFAB. Holbrook Pond, Little, T.3,R. 11. NLFAB. trout, 12 inches. Length limit on Sunapee trout, 12 inches. Daily Barker Pond, T.4,R.6. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. Katahdin Lake, T.3.R.8. NLFAB. Horserace ponds, T.2.R.11; etc. NLFAB. limit 5 fish, not to include more than 2 brook trout. Bartlett Brook, Stoneham. Closed to the taking of smelts. Messer Pond, T.5.R.8. Daily limit 5 fish. Horseshoe Pond, West Bowdoin College Grant. FFO. Echo Lake, Little, and tributaries, Mt. Desert. Length limit on Beaver ponds, Magalloway, etc. FFO. Dally limit 5 trout. Messer Pond, Little, T.5.R.8. Daily limit 5 fish. Houston Pond, Little, T.6.R.9. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens brook trout, 12 inches. Length limit on Sunapee trout, 12 inches. Billy Brook, Brownfield. From confluence with Shepherd’s River Millinocket Lake and tributaries, T.1.R.8; etc. Closed to the taking last Saturday in April. Daily limit 5 fish, not to include more than 2 brook trout. upstream to the first bridge, closed to all fishiaig by persons 16 of smelts except by hook and line (exception: Sandy Stream Hudson Pond, Lower, and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Floods Pond, Otis. Closed to fishing within 11/2 miles of the intake years of age and older. open to dip netting). Lawful to use up to three hooks per line, T.10.R.10. NLFAB. of the Bangor Water District. Black Pond, Lower, T.4,R.5. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. such hooks to be not less than 4 inches apart. Hurd Pond, Little, T.2,R. 10. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Fox Pond and outlet to barrier dam and screen, T.10.S.D. Daily Black Pond, Upper, T.4.R.6. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. Moose Pond, T.3.R.8. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Indian Pond, T.8.R.10. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. Boston Pond, Denmark. No motorboats allowed. Mud Brook, T.2.R.8. Daily limit 5 fish. Island Pond, T.9.R.10; etc. Length limit on salmon, 12 inches. Giles Pond, Aurora. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday Boulder Brook, Lovell. Closed to taking of smelts. Nokomis Pond, Newport, etc. No motorboats powered by internal Jackson Pond (Jordan Pond), T.3,R. 11. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. of April. Bradley Pond, Lovell. No motorboats allowed. combustion engines allowed. Jackson Pond, T.3.R.10; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Green Lake, Ellsworth, etc. Minimum length limit on togue, 18 Broken Bridge Pond and tributaries, Albany Twp. Daily limit 5 Penobscot River. Fly fishing only from the Bangor dam to the Johnston Pond, T.A..R.10. Opens May 30. NLFAB. inches. Daily limit on togue, 2 fish. Lake and tributaries closed to trout. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. Milford dam including tributary waters upstream to the first JoMary Lake, Upper, and tributaries. See Penobscot County. taking of smelts except by hook and line. Bryant Pond (or Lake Christopher), Woodstock and Greenwood. bridge. Closed to all fishing is the area from the main dam at JoMary Pond, T.B.R.10. Opens last Saturday of April. NLFAB. Half Mile Pond, Aurora Twp. Minimum length limit 20 inches on Daily limit 5 fish, not to include more than 2 salmon. NLFAB, West Enfield downstream to an imaginary straight line between Daily limit 5 trout. togue and 12 inches on brook trout. Daily limit shall not include except smelts. Opens last Saturday of April. Pond and tributar­ red post 150 feet below powerhouse on east bank and red post Jordan Pond, T.3.R.11, W.E.L.S. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. more than 2 togue and 2 brook trout. ies open to the taking of smelts with exception of Bowker Brook on west bank. See Atlantic salmon regulations. Juniper Knee Pond, Elliottsville. NLFAB. Hatcase Pond, Dedham, etc. No fishing in that portion lying gener­ and Stone Cottage Brook and the area within 200 feet of the Puffers Pond (Echo Lake) and tributaries and outlet down to Kelly Pond, T.2,R. 12. NLFAB. Daily limit 2 trout. ally northerly of the red posts set on opposite shores at the mouth of Stone Cottage Brook. barrier dam, Dexter. Daily limit of 5 trout. NLFAB. Open last Kennebec River, East Outlet. See Somerset County. narrowest point in the cove at the north end of the pond; the C Pond, C. Surplus Twp. Daily limit 5 trout. Saturday in April. Kidney Pond, T.3,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. narrowest point is approximately 500 yards south of the pump­ Clay Pond and outlet to barrier dam, Fryeburg. NLFAB. Daily limit Pushaw Stream, Hudson, etc. Open until September 15 from the Kingsbury Pond and tribs., Mayfield, etc. See Somerset County. ing station of the Brewer Water District. Minimum length limit on 5 trout. Opens last Saturday of April. No motorboats allowed. railroad bridge in Hudson downstream to Pushaw Pond and Knowlton Pond, T.3,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. brook trout, 12 inches. Daily limit on brook trout, 2 fish. Colcord Pond and tributaries, Porter. Closed to the taking of from Pushaw Pond downstream to the Stillwater River. Kokadjo River. (See Roach River). Hopkins Pond, Mariaville. Length limit on togue, 20 inches. smelts. Rocky Brook, Lincoln. From Burlington Road (Trans Alpine High­ Lazy Tom Pond, T.1.R.13. Closed to fishing in odd-numbered Hurd Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Dedham. Concord Pond, Little, Woodstock. FFO. Minimum length limit on way) to Mattanawcook Lake, restricted to fishing only by chil­ years. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. trout, 8 inches. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last Saturday of April. dren under 16 years of age. Jordan Pond, Mt. Desert. Length limit on salmon, 16 inches. No motorboats allowed. Rocky Pond, T.3.R.8. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Lily Bay Brook (North Brook), from the red posts at the lake Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Daily bag limit on salmon, trout, Crocker Pond, Albany Twp. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Open last Round Pond, Lee and T.3,R.1 NBPP. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. upstream to the old fish hatchery concrete dam, closed to all and togue: 2 fish, singly or in combination. Smelts may be taken Saturday of April. Opens last Saturday of April. fishing. See additional regulations under Moosehead Lake tribu- by hook and line on,ly. No motorboats over 10 horsepower Crooked River. See listing under Cumberland County, Sebago Round Pond, Little, Lincoln. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last allowed. Lake and tributaries. Saturday of April. Lily Pad Pond, T.3,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. King Pond, Pit. 33. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Cupsuptic Lake and tribs. See Franklin County. Sandy Stream, tributary to Millinocket Lake, T.2.R.8; etc. Daily Lobster Lake, Little, T.3,R. 14. Closed to fishing from 1979 through Lily Pond and tributaries, Deer Isle. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Cupsuptic River. FFO. Open until September 30. Daily limit 5 fish limit 5 fish. (See also Millinocket Lake.) 1984. Long Pond, Aurora, etc. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. until September 15. Daily limit 1 fish from September 16 to Sand Bank Brook and tributaries, T.3.R.7, etc. Daily limit 5 fish. Long Pond, T.A..R.11; etc. NLFAB. Long Pond and tributaries, Mt. Desert. No size or bag limits on September 30. Closed to taking of smelts. Tributaries to Cup­ Shin Pond, Upper and Lower, Mt. Chase Pit., etc. Minimum length Long Pond, Elliottsville; etc. Length limit on salmon, 12 inches. bass or pickerel. suptic River: FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. limit on salmon, 12 inches. Long Pond Stream Watershed. (See Ship Pond Stream Water­ Loon Pond, T.40.M.D. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Satur­ Cushman Pond, Lovell. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Smith Pond and tributaries and outlet to Route 157 bridge, T.3, shed). day of April. Saturday of April. No motorboats allowed. Indian Purchase. Open to fishing the last Saturday of April; the Lost Pond, T.3,R.10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Lovejoy Pond, T.34, MD. Length limit on brook trout, 12 inches. Cushman Pond and tributaries. Sumner. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. outlet from Route 157 bridge downstream to the barrier dam Lyford Pond, Big, T.A..R.12; etc. FFO. Daily limit 8 fish. Daily bag and possession limit on brook trout, 2 fish. Opens last Saturday of April. opens April 1. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Lyford ponds, Little, East and West Bowdoin College Grant. FFO. Mitchell Pond, Dedham. Daily limit 5 trout. Ellis Pond, Little, Byron. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Trout Pond, T.2.R.7. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Patten Pond, Lower, Surry, etc. Length limit on brown trout, 14 Farrington Pond, Lovell. No motorboats over 6 horsepower Wassataquoik Stream and tributaries, T.3.R.7; etc. Daily limit 5 Matthews Pond, T.8.R.10. Daily limit 2 trout. Length limit on trout, inches. No bag limit on pickerel. allowed. fish. 12 inches. Artificial lures only., Rift Pond, Pit. 33. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Granger Pond, Denmark. Open through October? No size or bag Wassookeag Lake. Closed to fishing by all means, so much of the McKenna Pond, T.3.R.11. FFO. Ripple Brook, from outlet of Long Pond to Ripple Pond, Mt. limit on bass. waters of Wassookeag Lake as are contained in an area easterly Middle Branch Pond, T.5,R.9 NWP. NLFAB. Desert. Closed to all fishing. Hall Pond, Paris. Fishing with artificial lures only. Daily limit 5 trout. and westerly of the Guy H. Hall Memorial Bridge, and on all Millinocket Lake, T.1.R.9, etc. See Penobscot County. Ripple Pond and tributaries, Mt. Desert. No size or bag limits on Opens last Saturday of April. shores extending from said bridge for a distance of 150 feet, Minister Pond, Big, and tributaries, T.2.R.10. Daily limit 5 fish. bass or pickerel. Heald Pond, Lovell. No motorboats over 6 horsepower allowed. easterly and westerly, measured on a line perpendicular to the NLFAB. Round Pond and tributaries, Mt. Desert. No size or bag limits on Horseshoe Pond, Denmark. No motorboats allowed. center of said bridge, during September of each year. Minister Pond, Little, and tributaries. T.2,R. 10. Daily limit 5 fish. bass or pickerel. Horseshoe Pond. Lovell. No motorboats over 6 horsepower NLFAB. Simmons Pond and tributaries, Hancock Twp. NLFAB. Daily limit allowed. The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except Mirror Pond (Monkey Pond), T.A.,R.11. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. 5 fish. Opens last Saturday of April. Howard Pond, Hanover. Fly fishing and trolling only. Inlet brook at trout, salmon and togue from October 1 to October 31: Moose Pond, T.1,R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Somes Pond and tributaries, Mt. Desert. No size or bag limits on Morrison’s Lodge, closed from 50 feet below foot bridge at red Brewer Pond, Orrington, etc.; Chemo Pond, Clifton, etc. Crook­ Moosehead Lake: Open to fishing May 1. Closed to the taking of hacc nr nirlfArpI stakes for V2 mile upstream. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout or salmon ed Pond, Lincoln; Eddington Pond, Eddington, etc.; Folsom Lake, smelts except by hook and line. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Trout Pond, T.40.M.D. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. in the aggregate. Lincoln; Holbrook Pond, Holden; Mattanawcook Lake, Lincoln; Daily limit 2 salmon, 2 togue, and 2 trout, but not more than 5 in Tunk Pond, Little, Sullivan. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Indian Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Green­ Pushaw Lake, Glenburn, etc. Pushaw Pond, Little, Hudson; Shaw the aggregate of these species. Union River. Fly fishing only between the Bangor Hydro dam in wood, NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Saturday of April. Lake, T.5.R.1; South Branch Lake, Seboeis, etc. Swetts Pond, Moosehead Lake tributaries and outlets: Open to fishing May 1. Ellsworth and the south side of the U.S. Route 1 bridge. Closed Jaybird Pond, Hiram, etc. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Orrington. Closed to the taking of smelts. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. to all fishing is an area on west side of the river, marked by a red Saturday of April. For additional regulations and exceptions to the above, see line on the spillway of the above named dam and extending Johnson Brook, at Worthley Pond, Peru. Closed to the taking of entries for the following: Kennebec River, East and West outlets diagonally downstream to a red marker on west shore; closed smelts. (Somerset County); Moose River (Somerset County); Roach Riv­ area includes powerhouse and adjacent fishway and trap. See Kennebago River. See regulations under Franklin County. PISCATAQUIS COUNTY er, Lily Bay Brook, and Squaw Brook (all Piscataquis County); Atlantic salmon regulations. West Branch, from Tannery Falls Keewaydin Lake, Stoneham. No size or bag limit on pickerel. and Socatean Stream (Somerset County). above Route 9 upstream to Dutton Pond outlet. “Catch and Keys Pond, Sweden. Opens last Saturday of April. Mountain Brook Pond, West Bowdoin College Grant. FFO. release area.” All fish caught must be released at once. Fishing Mountain Pond, Beaver Cove Pit. etc. Open to fishing in odd-num­ Kezar Lake and tributaries, Lovell. Closed to the taking of smelts See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: with artificial lures only. except by hook and line. bered years only. Daily limit on trout, 5 fish. FFO. Mud Pond, Little, and tributaries, Greenville, etc. Daily limit 5 fish. West Lake and tributaries, T3ND, etc. Smelts may be taken only Kezar Ponds (Mud, Little Mud, Back, Middle, and Jewett ponds), Note special live bait regulations in effect on 4 watersheds in by hook and line. Waterford, Stoneham, Lovell. No motorboats over 10 horsepow­ NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. Piscataquis County: The use or possession of live fish as bait is Murphy ponds (4), T.2.R.11. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Youngs Pond, Otis. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. er allowed. prohibited in all waters of the Roach River, Sourdnahunk, Ship Lake Christopher. See Bryant Pond. Nahmakanta Lake, T.1.R.11, etc. Length limit on togue, 18 Pond Stream, and Long Pond Stream watersheds. Live fish as inches. The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except Lincoln Pond, T.5.R.3. NLFAB. bait prohibited in all waters of Baxter Park. trout, salmon and togue from October 1 to October 31: Little Pond, Denmark. Motorboats over 6 horsepower not Narrows Pond, or Narrow Pond, T.8,R.14. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 Alamoosook Lake, Orland; Brewer Pond, Orrington, etc.; Chalk allowed. Abol Pond, T2,R9. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday fish. Pond, Beddington, etc. Fourth Machias Lake, T.41.M.D.; Georges Long Pond, Denmark. Closed to fishing from a point at the mouth of April. North Pond, Elliottsville Pit. Artificial lures and flies only. Daily limit Pond, Franklin; Graham Lake, Ellsworth, etc.; Horseshoe Lake, of brook at head of pond to a point 150 feet down the pond; Allagash Lake, T.7.R.14; and Allagash Stream, T.8.R.14 (Inlet to 2 trout. Length limit on trout, 10 inches. T.5; Jones Pond, West Gouldsboro; Pickerel Pond, Twp. 32; Sil­ points to be plainly marked. Daily limit 5 trout. Length limit 8 Allagash Lake). See regulations under Allagash Wilderness Notch Pond, West Bowdoin College Grant. FFO. ver Lake, Bucksport; Somes Pond, Mt. Desert; Union River, inches on trout. Open last Saturday of April. Fishing restricted to Waterway. Onawa Lake, Elliotsville, etc. NLFAB. between Graham Lake and Leonards Lake, Ellsworth. artificial flies and lures only. No motorboats over 6 horsepower Allagash Pond, T.9.R.15. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. Ordway Pond, Shirley. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Ordway Pond, Little, Shirley. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. allowed. Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Piscataquis and Aroostook coun­ Long Pond on Little Magalloway River. FFO. Daily limit 3 salmon or ties. Fishing Regulations: On the following waters and their trib­ Otter Pond and tributaries, T.3.R. 13. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. trout in the aggregate. ---- __ — utaries upstream to the Allagash Waterway blazed line, the daily Peaked Mountain Pond, T.10,R 11. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Lovewell Pond, Fryeburg. No motorboats on the portion of the limit is 5 fish of the trout and togue species, not more than 1 of Pearl Ponds (2), T.8.R. 10. NLFAB. KENNEBEC COUNTY pond within the boundaries of the Brownfield Bog wildlife man­ which may be a togue: Telos Lake, Round Pond (T.6,R.11), Penobscot River, West Branch. (A). From Seboomook Dam to red agement area except during October and November. Chamberlain Lake (tributary exception on Allagash Stream, see posts set on the shores of Chesuncook Lake: From April 1 to Magalloway River, Big. (A) Upstream from red post in corner of below), Eagle Lake (including Round Pond), Churchill Lake (in­ Aug. 31, artificial lures only, daily limit not to include more than 2 cluding Heron Lake), Umsaskis Lake, and Long Lake (including salmon; from Sept. 1-30, FFO, daily limit 1 salmon or 1 trout. (B) See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Littlehale’s field (about ’/« mile below Bennett’s Covered Bridge in Lincoln Pit): FFO; daily limit 3 salmon or trout in the aggregate, Harvey Pond). The minimum length limit on togue is 18 inches on From Ripogenus Dam to head of Sourdnahunk Deadwater: From April 1 to Sept. 15, artificial lures only, daily limit not to include Basin Pond, Fayette. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Satur­ except 1 fish from Sept. 1 to Sept. 30; tributaries FFO above the above waters and tributaries within the Waterway. The above Parmachenee Lake. (B) Downstream from aforementioned red two provisions apply to those portions of the Allagash River more than 2 salmon; from Sept. 16-30, FFO, daily limit 1 salmon day of April. or 1 trout. (C) From the head of Sourdnahunk Deadwater to Bean Pond, Sidney. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Saturday post to New Hampshire line below New Magalloway Bridge, upstream (south) of the Long Lake dam, except that the daily open to general law fishing. limit is 2 fish from April 1 to June 15 in the area marked by red Ambejejus Lake: From April 1 to Sept. 15, general law fishing, of April. daily limit not to include more than 2 salmon; from Sept. 16-30, Belgrade Stream. Open until September 30. Magalloway River, Little, and tributaries. FFO. Daily limit 3 salm­ posts between Umsaskis Lake and Long Lake. on or trout in the aggregate. On Allagash Lake and Allagash Stream upstream to the con­ FFO, daily limit 1 salmon or 1 trout. Carleton Pond, Readfield and Winthrop. Closed. Piper Pond, Abbot. Open to taking of smelts with hook and line Chamberlain Pond, Belgrade. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens Meadow Brook, Stoneham. Closed to the taking of smelts from fluence with the outlet from Johnson Pond, the daily limit on Keewaydin Lake to a point 100 feet above bridge crossing said trout and togue is 2 fish, only 1 of which may be a togue; length only. Piper Pond tributaries, except Hayden Brook and its tribu­ last Saturday of April. taries, open to dipping of smelts. Cobbosseecontee Stream. Open until September 30. Meadow Brook. limit on togue, 18 inches; NLFAB. Metallak Brook and its tributaries, in Richardson Twp., etc. General law provisions apply to fishing in all other waters with­ Pitman Pond and tributaries, T2.R.10. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Desert Pond and tributary and outlet to barrier dam, Mt. Vernon Pleasant Lake, T.9,R. 11,T. 10,R. 11. Daily bag and possession limit Twp. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last Saturday of April. Closed to all fishing except to taking of smelts. in the Allagash Waterway. Mill Brook, Hanover. Closed to fishing by persons over 16 years of Watercraft Restrictions (summary): No restriction on water­ on trout and togue: 5 fish, not more than 1 of which may be a Echo Lake tributaries. Closed to taking of smelts. togue. Minimum length limit on togue, 18 inches. age from the dam at Howard Pond to the Androscoggin River. craft or motor size from south end of Telos Lake to north end of Egypt Pond and tributaries, Vienna, etc. Daily limit 5 trout. Pleasant Pond, T.A.,R.11. NLFAB. Mollidgewock Pond, Upton. FFO. Daily bag and possession limit Chamberlain Lake. From Lock Dam north, only canoes with or NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. Pleasant Pond, Little, T.10.R.11, W.E.L.S. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. on trout, 2 fish. without motors may be used; no motors over 10 horsepower. On Emery (or Mud) Pond, Sidney. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens Pleasant River, East Branch, T.B..R.10; etc. Daily limit 5 fish. last Saturday of April. Mooselookmeguntic Lake and tributaries. See Franklin County. Allagash Lake and Allagash Stream to red posts at Chamberlain Mount Zircon Reservoir. Closed. Lake, only canoes without motors may be used. (For a complete Polly Pond, T.3,R. 11. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Fairbanks Pond, Manchester. Opens last Saturday of April. Prentiss Pond, T.1,R. 11. FFO. Mud Pond, Lower Cupsuptic Twp. NLFAB. copy of regulations or other information on the use of the Alla­ Fowler Brook, Benton. Closed to all fishing: that portion from the Punchbowl Pond, Blanchard. NLFAB. road culvert on the Unity Road (Route 139) to its confluence with North Pond, Greenwood, etc. Open to the taking of bass, pickerel, gash Wilderness Waterway, write to Bureau of Parks and Recre­ and perch during October. ation, Department of Conservation, State Office Building, Au­ Rabbit Pond, Elliottsville. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish on pond and the Sebasticook River. tributaries. North Pond, Sumner. Daily limit 5 trout. gusta, ME 04333. Gould Pond, Sidney. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Satur­ Ragged Pond, T.9.R.10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. day of April. Otter Pond, T.5.R.5 WBKP. Fly casting and fly trolling only with Alligator Pond, T.A..R.11, W.E.L.S. NLFAB. single-hooked flies or tandem-hooked flies. Daily limit 3 salmon B Pond, T.B..R.11, NLFAB. Rainbow Lake and deadwater and tributaries to both, T.2,R. 11. Jamies Pond, and tributaries, Manchester, etc. Closed to the Daily limit on trout, 5 fish. NLFAB. taking of smelts. or trout in the aggregate. Baker Pond, Bowdoin College Grant (West) (T.8.R.10). FFO. Parmachenee Lake, T.5.R.4, etc. Fly casting and fly trolling only Baxter State Park. Daily limit 5 fish from any of the waters. NLFAB. Ripogenus Lake, T.3.R.12, etc. See Chesuncook Lake. Kennebec River. See regulations under Somerset County. Roach Pond, First, T.A.R.13. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Kimball Pond, New Sharon, etc. See Franklin County. with single-hooked flies or tandem-hooked flies. Daily limit 3 No motorboats allowed except on Matagamon or Webster salmon or trout in the aggregate. lakes NLFAB. Maranacook Lake, Winthrop, etc. Daily limit 5 trout, salmon, and Roach (Kokadjo) River, from First Roach Pond to Moosehead togue in the aggregate. Patte Brook Duck Marsh, Albany Twp. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 Bean ponds, T.2.R.11, NLFAB. trout. Bear Pond, T.A,R.11. NLFAB. Lake: Open for fly fishing only from May 1 to September 15; daily Messalonskee Lake (Snow Pond) Outlet, Oakland. Closed to fish­ limit 1 salmon, 2 togue, and 2 trout. Open for fly fishing only from ing during September from Central Maine Power Company dam Pepperpot Pond, T.4,R.2. NLFAB. Bear Pond, T.2,R. 11. NLFAB. Perleys Pond, Denmark. Motorboats over 6 horsepower not Beaver Pond, Little, and tributaries, T.2,R. 11. NLFAB. September 16 to September 30; daily limit 1 fish. Length limit on to red post at the public boat landing. togue, 18 inches. Closed to tho taking of smelts. Minnehonk Lake tributaries. Closed to the taking of smelts. allowed. Bell Pond and tributaries, Monson. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Pleasant Lake and tributaries, Otisfield and Casco. See Cumber­ Opens last Saturday of April. Roach River Watershed, T.A.,R.11, T.A..R.12, T.1.R.12, T.1.R.13, Narrows Pond, Upper and Lower, Winthrop. Daily limit 5 trout, T.A..R.13, T.A..R.14, T.1.R.14. NLFAB in any waters of the land County. Bennett Pond, Parkman. Opens to fishing June 1. NLFAB. Daily salmon and togue in the aggregate. watershed. Parker Pond and tributaries, Mt. Vernon, Chesterville, etc. Smelts Pond-in-the-River and Rapid River, Twp. C, Upton, etc. FFO. limit 5 fish. may be taken only by hook and line. Daily limit 5 fish. From September 16 to September 30, FFO, Bennett Pond, Big, Guilford. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Open to Rocky Pond, Little, T.3,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Silver Lake (Figure 8 Pond), Manchester, etc. Use or possession daily limit 1 fish from either the pond or the river. See also fishing June 1. Rocky Pond, T.3,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. or taking of live fish as bait prohibited. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens Richardson lakes. Benson Pond, Big, Willimantic, etc. NLFAB. Daily limit shall not Rocky Pond, Big, T.A..R.11. NLFAB. last Saturday of April. Richardson lakes, Upper and Lower and tributaries. Daily limit 5 include more than 2 togue. Rocky Pond, Little, T.A..R.11. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Tyler Pond, Manchester. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. fish in the aggregate from lakes and tributaries. NLFAB. Benson Pond, Little, and tributaries, Bowerbank. NLFAB. Round Pond, T.6.R.11. See Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Watson Pond, Rome Twp. No motorboats allowed. Fly fishing only, that part of Richardson Lake from the mouth Birch Ridge Pond, T.A.,R.11. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Rubberneck Pond, T.A..R.11. NLFAB. Wellman Pond and tributaries, Belgrade, etc. Daily limit 5 trout. of Metallak Brook to a straight line drawn between three red Big Indian Pond, T.3.R.5. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Rum Pond, Greenville, etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. posts, one set on the east shore of Pine Island, one on the Blood (Duck) Pond, T.2.R.13. Daily limit 5 fish. FFO. No motor- Salmon Pond, Greenville. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Wilson Pond, Monmouth, etc. Daily limit 5 trout. mainland in a southerly direction from Pine Island and one on boats allowed. Salmon Pond, Guilford. Closed. the mainland in a northeasterly direction from Pine Island. Bluff Pond, T.A.,R. 13. FFO. Sawyer Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Green­ The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except Above described area closed 1 hour after sunset to 1 hour Boardway (Boardman) Pond, Big, T.A..R.11. FFO. Daily limit 5 ville. Opens the last Saturday of April. Daily limit 5 trout. Closed trout, salmon and togue during October: before sunrise of the following morning, except to the taking of fish. to the taking of smelts except by single hook and line. Androscoggin Lake, Wayne; Cochnewagon Lake, Monmouth; smelts. Boardway (Boardman) Pond, Little, T.A..R.11. FFO. Daily limit 5 Schoodic Lake and tributaries, Brownville, etc. Closed to the tak­ East Pond, Oakland; North Pond, Rome; Schoolhouse Pond, Fly fishing only, that part of Richardson Lake from the mouth fish. ing of smelts except by hook and line. Fayette. of Mosquito Brook to a straight line drawn between a red post Branns Mill Pond, Dover-Foxcroft. See Penobscot County. Sebec Lake and tributaries, Dover-Foxcroft, etc. No size or bag set on the south shore of Mosquito Brook Cove approximately Brown Brook Pond, T.9.R.9. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. limit on bass. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Closed to the 300 feet from the mouth of said brook and a red post set on the Buck Pond, T.2.R.11. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. taking of smelts except by single hook and line. Taking of smelts north shore of said cove. Above described area closed 1 hour Buttermilk Pond, First, Bowerbank. No size or bag limit on bass. prohibited in Earley’s salmon pool, so-called, at the head of after sunset to 1 hour before sunrise of the following morning, Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Sebec Lake, and in that part of the lake between said pool and except to the taking of smelts. Caribou Lake, T.3,R. 12, etc. See Chesuncook Lake. Packard’s wharf. KNOX COUNTY Richardson Pond, T.4.R.2, etc. NLFAB. Carry Pond, T.3.R.11. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Secret Pond, Greenville. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Richardson Ponds, East, T.4.R.2. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Carpenter Pond, T.7.R.11. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Shadow Pond, Greenville, etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Round Pond, Greenwood. Open to fishing for bass, pickerel, and Caucomogomoc Stream, T.6.R.14. Artificial lures only. Daily limit Saturday of April. Pond, tributaries, and outlet closed to the perch during October. on salmon, 2 fish. taking of smelts, except that persons under 16 years of age may See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Round Pond and tributaries, Albany Twp. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 Celia Pond, T.3,R.10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. take smelts daily until 10:00 p.m. trout. Pond opens last Saturday of April. Chairback ponds, East and West, T.7.R.9. NLFAB Daily limit on Ship Pond Stream Watershed and Long Pond Stream Water­ Alford Lake and tributaries, Hope. Smelts may be taken only by Rump Pond, T.5.R.5 WBKP. Fly casting and fly trolling only with trout, 5 fish. shed, Bowerbank, Willimantic, Elliotsville, T.7.R.9, T.7.R.10, and hook and line. No length or bag limit on black bass in lake. single-hooked flies or tandem-hooked flies. Daily limit 3 salmon Chamberlain Lake, T.6.R.11, etc. See Allagash Wilderness Water­ T.8.R.10. NLFAB in any waters of these watersheds. Chickawaukie Lake and tributaries, Rockport, etc. Smelts may or trout in the aggregate. Slaughter Pond, T.3.R.11. FFO. be taken only by hook and line. way. Saco River. See York County. Chesuncook Lake, T.3.R.12, etc. Daily limit may not include more Smith Pond, Elliottsville. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Crystal Pond, Washington. No length or bag limit on black bass. Sand Pond, Norway. No size or bag limit on pickerel and bass. than 2 togue, 3 salmon, or 2 trout. Snake Pond, T.7.R.11, W.E.L.S. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Forest Lake, Friendship. Daily limit 5 trout. Shagg Pond, Woodstock. Open to fishing May 1. Daily limit 3 trout. Churchill Lake (incl. Heron Lake), T.9.R.12, etc. See Allagash Snow’s Pond, Dover-Foxcroft. No motorboats allowed. Iron Pond, Washington. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last Saturday of Length limit on trout, 10 inches. NLFAB. Sourdnahunk Watershed, T.4.R.10; T.4.R.11; T.5,R.10,R.11; April. Wilderness Waterway. Songo Pond, Bethel and Albany Twp. Open to fishing for bass, Clear Lake, T. 10, R. 11. Daily bag and possession limit on trout and T.2,R.10; T.3,R.10; T.3,R.11. Daily limit of 5 fish from any of the Mirror Lake, Rockport. Closed. Salt Pond, Cushing, etc. Daily limit 5 trout. pickerel and perch during October. togue: 5 fish, not more than 1 of which may be a togue. Minimum waters, except Slaughter Pono in T.3.R.11. NLFAB. Washington Pond, Washington. No length or bag limit on bass. South Pond, Greenwood. Tributaries closed to the taking of length limit on togue, 18 inches. Sourdnahunk Lake, T.4,R.10; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Closed to smelts. Cliff Lake, T.8,R.12,T.9,R12. Daily bag and possession limit on all fishing from 1 hour after sunset to 1 hour before sunrise of the Sparrow Brook, Hartford. (See Anasagunticook Lake) trout and togue: 5 fish, not more than 1 of which may be a togue. following morning. Speck Pond, Grafton. NLFAB. Minimum length limit on togue, 18 inches. Sourdnahunk (Nesowadnehunk) Thoroughfare, T.4,R.10. Closed Stanley Pond and tributaries, Hiram, etc. Closed to the taking of Clifford Pond, T.2.R.11. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB in pond and to fishing that portion of the thoroughfare, so-called, between smelts except by hook and line. tributaries. Nesowadnehunk (Sourdnahunk) Lake and the dam northerly Sunday Pond, Magalloway Pit. NLFAB. Coffeelos Pond, T.6.R.11. Artificial lures only. Daily limit on trout, 2 from the dam for approximately 1,000 feet to red posts set on Thompson Lake, Oxford. See Androscoggin County. LINCOLN COUNTY fish. Length limit on trout, 12 inches. the shore. Trout Pond, Stoneham. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Collins Pond, T.2,R. 11. NLFAB. Sourdnahunk Lake, Little (Little Nesowadnehunk), T.5.R.11. FFO. Saturday of April. Crawford Pond, T.A.R.11. NLFAB. Daily limit 2 trout. No boats or canoes propelled by motor Upper Dam Pool, T.4,R.1., (that area between Mooselookmeguntic Cranberry Pond (so-called Little Notch Pond), West Bowdoin allowed. See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Lake dam and a line drawn between the two cribwork piers College Grant. FFO. Sourdnahunk Stream, T.4.R.10; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Closed approximately 800 yards west of said dam). FFO. Daily limit 1 Currier Pond, Second, T.9.R.11. Daily limit 2 trout. Length limit on to all fishing from 1 hour after sunset to 1 hour before sunrise. Adams Pond, Boothbay. Daily limit 5 trout. fish. From September 15 to September 30, FFO, daily limit 1 fish. trout, 12 inches. Artificial tures only. South Branch Pond, Lower, and tributaries and outlet down to Deer Meadow Pond, Jefferson. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last No motorboats allowed from gates of dam, downstream or west­ Daicey Pond, T.3.R.10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. red marker at natural barrier, T.5.R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Saturday of April. erly 150 yards. Daisey Pond and tributaries, T.2.R.10. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. Length limit on Sunapee trout, 12 Hastings Pond, Bristol. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. Washburn Pond, Sumner, etc. Opens last Saturday of April. Daily Debsconeag Lake, Fifth, T.1 and 2.R.11, W.E.L.S. NLFAB. inches. Lily Pond, Edgecomb. No motorboats allowed. limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Debsconeag Pond, Sixth, T.1.R.11, etc. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. South Branch, Upper and tributaries, T.5.R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. Little Pond, Damariscotta. Closed to all fishing. Wells Pond, T.5.R.5. NLFAB. Deer Pond, T.3,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. Length limit on Sunapee Peters Pond, Waldoboro. Daily limit 5 trout. Worthley Pond and tributaries, Peru. Closed to the taking of Deer Pond, T.3,R. 13. Closed to fishing from 1979 through 1984. trout, 12 inches. Ross Pond, Bristol. Daily limit 5 trout. smelts. Doughnut Pond, T.2.R.11. NLFAB. Spectacle Pond, Upper, Lower, and tributaries, Monson, etc. Dai­ Sheepscot River. From the outlet of Sheepscot Lake (Palermo) to Dow Pond, Sebec. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. ly limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. Route 105 (Somerville), daily limit 2 trout, salmon, and togue in The following are open to fishing for all fish except trout, Draper Pond, T.3,R. 10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Spencer Pond, East Middlesex Canal Grant, etc. Daily limit 5 the aggregate. Closed to all fishing is that portion of river from salmon, and togue from October 1 to October 31: Duck Pond, T.4.R.11. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. trout. Head Tide dam upstream 150 feet to two red posts. No size or Bear Pond, Big, Hartford; Beaver Pond, Denmark; Boston Eagle Lake (incl. Round Pond), T.9.R.13; etc. See Allagash Wil­ Spencer Pond, Little, and tributaries, East Middlesex Canal bag limit on bass. See Atlantic salmon regulations. Pond, Denmark; Horseshoe Pond, Denmark; Kezar Pond, Frye­ derness Waterway. Grant. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of April. West Harbor Pond, Boothbay Harbor. No motorboats over 10 burg; Lovewell’s Pond, Fryeburg; Mill Pond, Lovell; Moose Pond, Echo Lake, T.9.R.11. Daily bag and possession limit on trout and horsepower allowed. Spider Lake, T.9,R.11,T.9,R.12. Daily bag and possession limit on Little, Denmark; Moose Pond, Lower, below or south of Walker togue: 5 fish, not more than 1 of which may be a togue. Minimum trout and togue: 5 fish, not more than 1 of which may be a togue. Wiley Pond, Boothbay Twp. Daily limit 5 fish. Fishing restricted to Bridge, Denmark; Moose Pond, Upper, Sweden, above Rte. 302, length limit on togue, 18 inches. 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Live Bait for Fishing: It shall be unlawful to take, sell, use, or have in possession Fry Pan Pond, Squaretown. FFO. No motorboats allowed. either dead or alive, for use as bait for fishing in the herein- Grace Pond, T.3.R.6. FFO. WASHINGTON COUNTY named waters, any pickerel, goldfish, yellow perch, white Grass Pond, T.2.R.4. Fishing with artificial lures only. Daily limit 5 perch, bass, sunfish, crappie, horned pout, carp or any fish. spiny-finned fish. Grassy Pond and thoroughfare between Grassy Pond and Big Open Water Season: Fish Pond, Holeb Twp. Closed. See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Fishing through natural openings in the ice from April 1 to Grenier Pond, Big, T.4.R.5NBKP. Daily limit on trout, 5 fish. No size or bag limit on pickerel unless otherwise indicated by September 30 for all species. Closed to all fishing— October 1 NLFAB. special regulations. to ice-in. Hall Pond, Prentiss Twp. FFO. See also Border Waters with New Brunswick. Limits: Heald Pond, Caratunk Pit. FFO. Daily bag limit 5 fish. Brook trout (includes rainbows and browns), lake trout, Heald ponds, Little and Wee, Caratunk Pit. NLFAB. Coleback Lake and tributaries and outlet down to barrier dam. and salmon: limit, 8 fish or 7'/2 pounds in aggregate. Brook Helen Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. NLFAB. Charlotte. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Saturday of trout: length limit, 6 inches. Lake trout and salmon: length High Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. NLFAB. April. limit, 14 inches. Bass: 5 fish; no length limit; no weight limit. Higher Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. NLFAB. Dead Pond, T.25, M.D. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Pickerel: 10 fish; no length limit; no weight limit. Bullhead Horseshoe Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. NLFAB. Dennys River, Dennys Bay, or Whiting Bay. See Atlantic salmon (hornpout): no length limit; no weight limit; no creel limit. Horseshoe Pond, Ten Thousand Acre Tract. FFO. regulations. White perch and yellow perch: no length limit; no weight Huston Brook, Dead River Pit. See Franklin County. Goulding Lake, Robbinston. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. limit; no creel limit. Iron Pond, Hobbstown, etc. FFO. Grand Lake Stream, Grand Lake Stream Pit. etc. Open to fly Island Pond, 10,000 Acre Tract. NLFAB. fishing only in waters free of ice from April 1 until September 15 ‘ Exceptions Jackson Pond and tributaries, Concord Twp. Daily limit 5 trout. including the stream adjacent to hatchery pools. Closed to all Great East Lake, Acton, etc. Length limit on brown trout, NLFAB. Opens last Saturday in April. fishing are waters within 150 feet of Grand Lake Stream dam. 14 inches. Daily limit on togue, 3 fish. Length limit on togue, Jim Pond, Little, T.1.R.5; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Greenland Cove Brook, Danforth. Closed to the taking of smelts. 18 inches. Open to smelting by single hook and line only. Jones Pond, Bald Mountain Twp. Fishing with artificial lures only. Horseshoe Pond, T. 18,M.D. (See Mystery Lake). Tributaries closed to smelting. Daily limit 5 fish. Hot Brook Lake, Lower, T.8.R.4, etc. See Aroostook County. Salmon Falls River. Brook trout season April 1 to Septem­ Kennebec River, from Indian Pond dam in T.1.R.6, Somerset Indian Lake, Whiting. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Satur­ ber 15; length limit, 6 inches; 8 fish or 7'/2 pounds in the County, to tidewater in Augusta, Kennebec County. Open under day of April. aggregate. the general laws except that section between Wyman Dam at James Pond and tributaries, Charlotte. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Umbagog Lake. Salmon or brook trout limit, 5 fish or 71/2 Moscow and the uppermost dam at Madison where the following Opens last Saturday of April. pounds per day in aggregate. regulations apply: (1) Length limit of 12 inches on salmon, togue, Ledge Pond, Charlotte. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. and rainbow trout; (2) Daily bag and possession limit on rainbow Lily Lake, Trescott. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. trout, togue, and salmon: 2 fish, singly or in combination. From Machias River, Holmes Bay. See Atlantic salmon regulations. September 15 to October 31, the Kennebec River from Indian Machias River, East, and tributaries. See Atlantic salmon regula­ Pond dam to Augusta is open to fly fishing only, daily limit 1 tions. fish. Monroe Lake, and tributaries, T.43,M.D. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Kennebec River, East Outlet, from Moosehead Lake to Indian Opens last Saturday of April. Pond. From May 1 to September 15: artificial lures only; daily Monroe Pond, East, T.43.MD. Closed to fishing in odd-numbered limit 2 salmon, 2 togue, and 2 trout, but not more than 5 in the years. aggregate of these species. From September 16 to September Monroe Pond, West, T.43.MD. Closed to fishing in even-numbered 30: fly fishing only; daily limit 1 fish. Length limit on togue, 18 years. inches. Closed to the taking of smelts. Musquash Lake, West, T.6.R.1 & Talmadge. Minimum length limit Kennebec River, West Outlet, from Moosehead Lake to Indian on togue, 18 inches. Pond. From May 1 to September 15: open under the general Mystery Lake, T. 18,M.D. (Horseshoe Pond). Daily limit 5 fish. laws. From September 16 to September 30; fly fishing only; daily Narraguagus River. Closed to all fishing within 100 feet of the ice limit 1 fish. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Closed to the taking control dam at Cherryfield. General law fishing, with single- of smelts. pointed hook, for all fish except Atlantic salmon is permitted Kennebec River tributaries in Concord, Bingham, and Moscow. from May 1 to S e p te m b e r 15 in the portion of the river beginning Open to fishrhg from June 1 to August 15 except the following 100 feet above the ice control dam and extending upstream to a sections which are open under general law seasons: (1) That point marked by 2 red posts, the location determined by the Fish portion of Mink Brook north of Pierce Hill Road in Moscow; (2) and Game Dept. Closed to all fishing is that portion of the Narra­ That portion of Austin Stream in Moscow north of the falls as guagus River from a red marker at the mouth of Sodom Brook in Squaw Brook, Big, from the red posts at the lake upstream to the marked by red markers; (3) That portion of Jackson Brook in Deblois, downstream approximately 150 yards to a red marker. old fish hatchery concrete dam, closed to all fishing. See addi­ Bingham north of Goodrich Road bridge. Above Deblois bridge, taking of fish is prohibited except by use of a single hook on a line. Below Deblois bridge, fly fishing only. tional regulations under Moosehead Lake tributaries. Kilgore Pond, T.1,R.4; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Squaw Pond, T.3,R.5. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. King and Bartlett Lake, T.4.R.5. NLFAB. See Atlantic salmon regulations. See Schoodic Brook. Squaw Pond, Little, Little Squaw Twp. NLFAB. King Lake, Little, and tributary and outlet to barrier dam, T.4.R.5. Ox Brook Lake, Upper and Lower, Talmadge, etc. No motorboats allowed. Stratton Pond, T.2.R.11. NLFAB. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Sylvan Lake, See Whetstone Pond. King Pond, T.1,R.4. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Peep Lake, T.30.M.D. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Telos Lake, T.5,R.11, etc. See Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Kingsbury Pond and tributaries, Mayfield Pit., etc. Open to the Penman Pond, T.26,E.D. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last “Ten Forty Pond.” See Unnamed pond. taking of smelts, except Center Brook. Saturday of April. Thanksgiving Pond, Blanchard. NLFAB. Knights Pond, Moxie Gore. NLFAB. Pike Brook Pond, East, T. 18,M.D. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens Thissell Pond and tributaries and outlet down to red marker at Lang Pond, Parlin Pond Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. last Saturday of April. natural barrier, T.5.R.11. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens last Lang Pond, Little, Parlin Pond Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Pike Brook Pond, West, T. 18,M.D. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Saturday of April. Lone Jack Pond, Johnson Mt. Twp. FFO. No motorboats Pineo Pond, Deblois. FFO. Pineo Pond shall be called a great Trout Pond, Little Squaw Mountain Twp. etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish allowed. pond. until September 14; from September 15 through September 30, Long Pond, Forsythe Twp., etc. Daily limit 5 fish. Motorboats with Pleasant River and tributaries. See Atlantic salmon regulations. daily limit 1 fish. No motorboats allowed. more than 10 horsepower prohibited. Pleasant River Lake and all tributaries. Closed to the taking of Trout Pond, T.8.R.10. Daily limit on trout, 5 fish. Long Pond, (so-called Little Long Pond), 10,000 Acre Tract. smelts. Turtle Pond, Lakeview Pit. Opens last Saturday of April. NLFAB. FFO. St. Croix River. See Boundary waters with New Brunswick. See Atlantic salmon regulations. Daily limit 5 fish. Long Pond, T.4.R.5. NLFAB. Salmon Pond and tributary. T.30,M.D. Daily limit 5 trout. Twin Ponds, T.2.R.9. NLFAB. Loon Pond, Attean and Holeb Twps. NLFAB. Unnamed pond (“Ten Forty Pond”), T.2.R.12. Open to fishing in Lost Pond, Pleasant Ridge, FFO. NLFAB. Schoodic Brook, Cherryfield. Closed from red post at its mouth to odd-numbered years only. Daily limit on trout, 5 fish. NLFAB. Lost Pond, T.5.R.16. FFO. Wadleigh Pond, Big, T.8.R.15. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Luther Pond and tributaries, Thorndike Twp. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 red post 1,000 feet upstream. Schoodic Lake, Cherryfield, etc. No size or bag limit on bass. Wassataquoik Stream and tribs. T.4.R.9. Daily limit 5 fish. fish. Opens last Saturday of April. Webster Lake, T.6.R.10, etc. Daily limit may not include more than Macdougall Pond, Caratunk. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last Simpson Pond, Roque Bluffs Twp. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Opens 2 togue and 5 brook trout. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Saturday of April. last Saturday of April. No motorboats allowed. Six Mile Pond, Marshfield, etc. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Open last West Branch ponds, First, Second, Third, Fourth, and tributar­ Marie Petush Pond, Prentiss Twp. FFO. ies, T.A..R.12. FFO. Markham Pond, Johnson Mt. Twp. FFO. Saturday of April. Whetstone Pond (Sylvan Lake), Blanchard, etc. NLFAB. Daily lim­ Martin Pond, The Forks. Open last Saturday in April. NLFAB. Daily Smelt Brook, Marshfield. Closed. Tomah Lake, T.10,R.3N. Closed to all fishing. it 5 fish. Pond and tributaries closed to the dipping of smelts. limit 5 trout. No motorboats allowed. Williams Pond, T.4,R.11. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. McKenney Pond, Holeb Twp. Artificial lures only. Daily limit on Wilson Pond, Lower and tributaries, Greenville. NLFAB. Length The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except trout, 2 fish. Length limit on trout, 10 inches. Motorboats with trout, salmon and togue from October 1 to October 31: limit on togue, 18 inches. more than 10 horsepower prohibited. Wilson Pond, Upper, T.8,R.10. Closed to fishing are North Brook Moosehead Lane. See regulations under Piscataquis County. Barrows Lake, Alexander; Baskahegan Lake, Topsfield, etc.’ and South Brook tributaries from red posts set at mouth of Moose Pond, Bowtown Pit. NLFAB. Bearse Lake, Meddybemps and Baring; Beaver Lake, Calais; Bea­ brook upstream to red posts set at first road bridge, respective­ Moose River. (A) From confluence of Holeb Stream (in T.6,R.1) to ver Dam Lake, North and South; Twp. 26; Bowles Lake, T.31, ly. NLFAB in pond and tributaries. Length limit on togue, 18 Attean Pond (in T.5,R.1): Open to general law fishing except M.D.; Chain lakes (1st, 2nd, and 3rd), Twp. 26 and 31; Chain Lake, inches. limited to artificial lures only and daily limit 5 fish. (B) From Lower, T.5; Chalk Pond, Beddington, etc; Clifford Lake, Twp. 26 Windy Pitch Pond, T.3.R.10. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Brassua Lake Dam to head of Gilbert’s Pool: Open to fishing and 27; Cranberry Lake, Upper, Twp. 30; Cranberry Lake, Lower, Woodman Pond, T.2,R.11. Daily limit 5 fish. Pond and tributaries May 1 to September 15 with artificial lures only; daily limit 2 Twp. 30 and 36; Crawford Lake, Crawford, etc.; Crooked Brook NLFAB. salmon, 2 togue, and 2 trout but not more than 5 in the aggre­ Lake, Forest City; Drake Lake, T.10,R.3,N; Fulton Lake, North- field; Gretchell Pugs, Twp. 43; Grover Lake, T.31, M.D. Hadley’s Yoke ponds, T.A..R.11. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. gate of these species. From September 16 to September 30, fly fishing only, daily limit 1 fish. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Lake, East Machias; Hot Brook Lakes, T.8,R.4; Hound Brook The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except Closed to the taking of smelts. (C) From head of Gilbert’s Pool Lake, T.1,R.2; Jackson Brook Lake, Brookton; Josh Lake, Whit­ ing; Lewy Lake, Princeton, etc.; Lily Lake, T.30.M.D.; Little River trout, salmon and togue from October 1 to October 31: to Moosehead Lake: Regulations same as (B), above, but with­ Boyd Lake, Orneville; Ebeemee ponds, East and West, Brown- out the artificial lures restriction between May 1 and September Lake, Twp. 43; Long Lake, Wesley, etc.; Machias Lake, First, Twp. 37; Machias Lake, Second, T.37.M.D.; Machias Lake Third, Twp. ville, etc.; Ebeemee Pond, Upper, T.4.R.9; etc. Seboeis Lake, 15. Lakeview Twp., etc. 5, 42,43; Machias Lake, Fourth, T.42,M.D„ and T.5.N.D. Meddy­ Mosquito Pond, The Forks. NLFAB. bemps Lake, Meddybemps, etc.; Mud Lake, (Upper and Lower), Mountain Dimmick Pond. See Dimmick. Alexander; Munson Lake, Twp. 18 and 19; Patrick Lake, Marion Moxie Lake, The Forks, etc. NLFAB. Pit. 14; Patten Lake, Waite, etc.; Pennamaquan Lake, Charlotte, SAGADAHOC COUNTY Moxie Pond, Little, T.2.R.4. NLFAB. etc.; Pickerel Lake, Brookton; Pickerel Lake, Topsfield; Poco- Mud Pond, 10,000 Acre Tract. NLFAB. moonshine Lake, Princeton, etc.; Rocky Lake, Twp. 18; Round Otter Pond, Bowtown. NLFAB. Lake, Charlotte; Round Lake, Twp. 18 and 19; Seavey Lake, Wes­ Otter Pond, Big, T.2,R.1. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. See General fishing laws—exceptions follow: ley; Seavey Lake, Little, Wesley; Second Lake, Twp. 18; Shaw Otter Pond, Little, T.2.R.1. Open to fishing in even-numbered Lake, T.6.R.1; Simon Lake, Codyville; Spectacle ponds, Twp. 19; Nequasset Pond, Woolwich. No length or bag limit on bass. years. Sucker Lake, Danforth; Tomah Lake, Little, Topsfield, etc.; Voses Silver Lake, Phippsburg. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Otter Pond, North, Bowtown. NLFAB. Lake, Calais; Wabassus Lake, Twp. 5, 6, 43. Stephen E. Powell (Swan Island) Wildlife Management Area, Palmer Pond, Mayfield. NLFAB. Richmond. Restricted to fishing only by children under 16 years Parlin Pond and tributaries upstream to Route 201 and outlet of age, and only when properly supervised. (Parlin Stream) down to the confluence with Bean Brook, Johnson Mt. Twp. and Parlin Pond Twp. Closed to all fishing in 1980. Penobscot Lake and tributaries and outlet, T.3,R.5NBKP, etc. O YORK COUNTY SOMERSET COUNTY Daily limit on trout, 5 fish. NLFAB. Penobecot River, West Branch. See Piscataquis County. Pickerel Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: Pierce Pond, T.1.R.4; etc. Artificial lures only. Daily limit 5 fish. See general fishing laws — exceptions follow: Pierce Pond, Upper, T.2,R.4. Daily limit 5 fish. Artificial lures only. See also Border Waters with New Hampshire. Baker Pond, Caratunk. NLFAB. Pleasant Pond, Caratunk. NLFAB. Open to fishing May 15. Season on all York County brooks and streams: April 1 to Sept. Baker Pond, Hobbstown, FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Rancourt Pond, Dennistown Pit. FFO. 15. Minimum length limit 8 inches on brook trout in all lakes and Baker Pond, Tomhegan Twp., T.1.R.2. FFO. Robinson Pond, Caratunk. NLFAB. ponds. Baker Pond tributaries, T.4,R.6; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. Rock Pond, T.5.R.6, B.K.P., W.K.R. FFO. Baker Stream, T.4,R.5; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Roderique Pond, Rockwood Strip. Open to fishing in odd-num­ Bald Mountain Pond, Bald Mountain Twp. NLFAB. bered years only. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Adams Pond, Newfield. Open through October. Barrett Pond, T.6.R.1, Holeb Twp. FFO. Motorboats with more Round Pond, Squaretown. FFO. Length limit on trout, 8 inches. Boulter Pond, York. Closed than 10 horsepower prohibited. Round Pond, Ten Thousand Acre Tract. FFO. No motorboats Bunganut Pond, Lyman. No size or bag limit on bass. Bean Pond, Pleasant Ridge Pit. FFO. allowed. Chase’s Pond, York. Closed. Beck Pond, T.3.R.5. NLFAB. Rush Pond, T.4.R.5. NLFAB. Deer Pond, Hollis. Daily limit on trout: 2 fish. Opens last Saturday Berry Ponds, Johnson Mt. Twp. FFO. No motorboats allowed in Russell Pond, T.5,R.16. FFO. of April. Little Berry Pond. Smith Pond, Parlin Pond Twp., etc. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Ell Pond, Sanford, etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Satur­ Big Fish Pond, Holeb Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Motor boats with Snake Pond, Johnson Mountain. Twp. FFO. day of April. No motorboats over 6 horsepower allowed. more than 10 horsepower prohibited. Socatean Stream, from the red posts at the lake upstream to the Folly Pond, York. Closed. Big Wood Pond, Jackman, etc. Length limit on togue, 18 inches. Scott Paper Company Middlesex Road, closed to all fishing. See Goose Pond, Shapleigh. No size or bag limits on pickerel and Bill Morris Pond, T.3.R.5. NLFAB. additional regulations under Piscataquis County— Moosehead bass. Black Brook Pond, Moxie Gore. NLFAB. Lake tributaries. Great East Lake, Acton. See Border Waters with New Hamp­ Black Hill Pond and tributaries and outlet down to barrier dam, Spectacle Pond, King and Bartlett Twp. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. shire. Embden. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Pond open last Saturday in Spencer Stream and tributaries, T.3,R.4., etc. FFO. Spencer Great East Lake tributaries. Closed to the taking of smelts. April. Stream open until Sept. 15. Horn Pond, Acton. Open to fishing from Oct. 1 to Oct. 31 for all fish Blakesley Lake, T.5.R.6. FFO. Split Rock Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. FFO. except salmon, trout, and togue. Brassua Lake, T.1.R.1, N.B.K.P. Closed after August 15 is that Spring Lake, T.3.R.4. NLFAB. Horne Pond and tributaries, Limington. Closed to the taking of portion southwest of a line between two orange posts set on Spruce Pond, Lexington Twp. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. smelts except by single hook and line. opposite shores at the entrance to Misery Cove, so-called. Stafford Pond and tributaries. Hartland. Daily limit 5 fish. NLFAB. Ledgemere Pond (Lake Arrowhead, The Flowage), Limerick and Closed to the taking of smelts except by single baited hook and Opens last Saturday of April. Waterboro. Open through October for all fish except salmon, line. Sugar Berth Pond, Dennistown Pit. NLFAB. trout, and togue. Brassua Lake tributaries, T.1.R.1, etc. Closed to the taking of Supply Pond and tributaries and outlet to barrier dam, Moose Legion Pond and tributaries, Kittery. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. smelts, except Misery Stream. River Pit., etc. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Saturday of Lone Pond, Waterboro. Daily limit on trout: 2 fish. Minimum length Butler Pond, Lexington Twp. NLFAB. April. limit on trout: 12 inches. Fishing with artificial lures only. Opens Butler Pond, T.4.R.5. NLFAB. Ten Thousand Acre Pond and tributaries. T.1.R.6. NLFAB. last Saturday of April. Carrabassett River. See Franklin County. Tobey Pond, Johnson Mountain. Twp. FFO. Middle Pond, York. Closed. Carry Pond, East, Carrying Place Twp. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Turner Ponds, Big and Little. Forsythe Twp. Daily limit 5 fish. Miiliken’s Mill Pond and tributaries, Old Orchard Beach. Daily Unlawful to fish with any flies, lures, or bait with other than a Artificial lures only. Motorboats with more than 10 horsepower limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Open last Saturday of April. single-pointed hook or tandem single-pointed hook. No motor- prohibited. Mousam Lake, Acton, etc. No size or bag limit on pickerel and boats over 10 horsepower allowed. Wilson Pond, Little, (Little Wilson Hill Pd), Johnson Mt. Twp. bass. Closed to the taking of smelts except by single hook and Carry Pond, Middle, Carrying Place Twp. NLFAB. FFO. line. Tributaries closed to the taking of smelts. Carry Pond, West, Carrying Place Twp. NLFAB. Ossipee Lake, Little, Waterboro. Daily limit on salmon and togue, Chase Pond, Moscow. NLFAB. The following waters are open to fishing for all fish except 2 fish in the aggregate. No size or bag limits on pickerel and Chase Stream Pond, 10,000 Acre Tract, etc. Daily limit 5 fish. trout, salmon and togue from October 1 to October 31: bass. Open to smelting with single hook and line only. Tributar­ NLFAB. East Pond, Smithfield; Fahi Pond, Embden; Hayden Lake (Wes- ies closed to the taking of smelts. Cheney Pond and tributaries, Prentiss Twp., etc. Daily limit on serunsett Lake), Madison; North Pond, Mercer, etc; Wyman Poverty Pond, Little, Shapleigh. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens trout, 5 fish. NLFAB. Pond, Brighton.. last Saturday of April. Clear Pond, Pleasant Ridge Pit. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Round Pond, Lyman. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Satur­ Clish Pond, T.5.R.20. FFO. day of April. Coburn Pond, Moose River Pit. FFO. Saco River (also Oxford County). Length limit on brown trout, 12 Cold Stream Pond, T.2.R.6; etc. FFO. Daily limit 5 trout. inches. Open to fishing under the general law until Oct. 15 Davis Brook, T.5.R.6. Daily limit 5 fish. except that from Sept. 16 to Oct. 15 only artificial lures are Davis Pond, T.5.R.6. Daily limit 5 fish. WALDO COUNTY permitted and the daily limit may not include more than 1 salm­ Daymond Pond, Moose River Pit. FFO. on, trout, or togue. Closed to all fishing is that portion of the river Dead Stream Pond, West Forks, etc. FFO. from Skelton dam (Dayton and Buxton) downstream to a straight Deer Pond, T.4.R.5. NLFAB. See general fishing laws—exceptions follow: line between red posts on the east and west banks of the river. Demo Pond and outlet to barrier dam, Rockwood Strip. NLFAB. No motorboats on that portion of the river within the boundaries Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Saturday of April. Bowler Pond, Palermo. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last Saturday of of the Brownfield Bog wildlife management area except during Desolation Pond, T.8,R.16. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. April. October and November. Dimmick Pond, Big, Little, and Mountain, Caratunk. NLFAB. Crotch Pond, Palermo. Opens last Saturday of April. Sand Pond, Limington. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Sat­ Dingley ponds, The Three, T.4.R.5. FFO. Ducktrap River, from Tilden Pond to tidewater, and tributaries urday of April. Dixon Pond, T.2.R.4. FFO. Daily limit 5 fish. Black Brook and Kendall Brook, Lincolnville, etc. FFO. Mini­ Sand Pond, Sanford. No motorboats over 10 horsepower al­ Durgin Pond, Johnson Mt. Twp. FFO. No motorboats allowed. mum length limit on brook trout, 10 inches. Daily limit on brook lowed. Ellis Pond, Ten Thousand Acre Tract. FFO. trout, 2 fish. River open until Oct. 15 from the confluence of Spicer Pond, Shapleigh Twp. Opens May 1. Length limit on trout, 8 Enchanted Pond, Little, Upper Enchanted Twp. FFO. Black Brook to tidewater. See Atlantic salmon regulations. inches. Daily limit 3 trout. Restricted to use of flies and artificial Everett Pond, T.4.R.5, B.K.P., W.K.R. FFO. Half Moon Pond, Brooks Twp. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. lures only. No motorboats allowed. Ferguson Stream, a tributary of Cambridge Pond, Cambridge, Jump Pond, Palermo. Opens last Saturday of April. Square Pond, Acton, etc. No size or bag limit on pickerel and etc. From Cambridge Pond upstream to the natural falls marked Pitcher Pond, Northport, etc. No size or bag limit on bass. bdSS. by red posts. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Prescott Pond, Palermo. Daily limit 5 trout. Opens last Saturday of Sunken Pond, Sanford. Daily limit 5 trout. NLFAB. Opens last Fernald Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. NLFAB. April. Saturday of April. Fernald Pond, T.2.R.6; FFO. St. George’s Lake, Liberty. Daily limit 5 salmon or trout. Swan Pond, Lyman. No size or bag limit on bass. Fish Pond, T.1.R.5 (Moxie). NLFAB. St. George’s Lake, Little, Liberty. Daily limit 5 salmon or trout. Tarwater Pond and outlet to Roberts Pond, Lyman. NLFAB. Daily Fish Pond, Pierce Pond Twp. FFO. Saban (Sam) Pond, Palermo. Opens last Saturday of April. limit 5 fish. Opens last Saturday of April. Fish Pond, Thorndike Twp. Daily limit 5 fish. Sheepscot Pond and River, Palermo. No size or bag limit on bass. Wadley Pond, Lyman. No size or bag limit on bass. Fish Pond, Little, T.3.R.3. FFO. See additional regulations on Sheepscot River under Lincoln Warren Pond, South Berwick. NLFAB. Daily limit 5 fish. Opens last Fish Pond, Little, and thoroughfare between Little Fish Pond and County. Saturday of April. Grassy Pond, Holeb Twp. Closed. Swan Lake and tributaries, Swanville, etc. Smelts may be taken Wilson Pond, Acton. Closed to the taking of smelts except by Foley ponds, (4), T.4,R.18. NLFAB. only by hook and line. No bag or size limit on bass. single hook and line. Tributaries closed to the taking of smelts.

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