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Physical Characteristics SPRING RIVER LAKE TI0 SD, Hancock Co

SPRING RIVER LAKE along with an occasional large fish. A small spring TI0 SD, Hancock Co. brook at the lake's western end contains modest U.S.G.S. Tunk Lake, ME (7 1/2') numbers of juvenile brook trout. This water is very popular with bait fishermen Fishes who trap many lively common shiners, a favored bait with ice anglers. Anglers should exercise extreme Landlocked salmon Minnows(con't) caution in guarding against an accidental Brown trout Fallfish(chub) introduction of any additional species which could Brook trout White sucker seriously jeopardize the fishery here and at Tunk Rainbow smelt Banded killifish Lake. Mionnows Threespine stickleback Golden shiner Redbreast sunfish Surveyed- July, 1952 Common shiner American eel (Revised- 1969, 1985, 1995) Alewife Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Funded in part by the Federal Aid in Restoration Act Physical Characteristics under Federal Project F-28-P L 4432 C Area- 704 acres Temperatures Surface- 75°F Maximum depth- 2B feet 2B feet- 6BoF Principal Fishery: Brown trout, salmon Spring River Lake is lc~a~~c~~=~h ~f Rc~te ° IB2 in TI0 SD. Small boats and canoes can be launched at a public area at the lake's southern end. Boats must be carried a short distance from the parking area to the shore. The lake provides marginal habitat for brown trout. However, during periods of hot weather, bottom temperatures become stressful and probably limit growth. Salmon were stocked periodically throughout the 1970's-BO's, but failed to provide a consistent fishery. The salmon stocking program was terminated in 1990. Some adult salmon from Tunk Lake as well as wild juvenile salmon produced in Tunk Stream drop down into Spring River Lake, thereby providing a limited fishery. Brown trout were introduced in 1992. A creel survey conducted during the 1994 ice fishing season revealed a fair fishery for this species with age III fish ranging from 15-17 inches in length. A limited fishery for wild brook trout provides anglers with some 7 to 9 inch trout 2.5 26 16 6 26 \ 16 3 26 26 262861812IS ~~ 16 13 14 2116~13 2723 17 ~ I ~416 ., 11 19 III 18 20 20 22 14 ~ \ III 20 20 17 '17 21 20 III 12 12 I~ 14 14 22 21 10 SPRING RIVER LAKE T 10.SD, HANCo.CK co., MAINE AREA 70.4 ACRES o 2 ~ :II TENTHS Of NILE.

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