Maine State Library Digital Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Law Books Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 1-1-1951 Maine Inland Ice Fishing Laws : 1951 Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalmaine.com/ifw_law_books Recommended Citation Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game, "Maine Inland Ice Fishing Laws : 1951" (1951). Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Law Books. 71. https://digitalmaine.com/ifw_law_books/71 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife at Digital Maine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Law Books by an authorized administrator of Digital Maine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Maine INLAND ICE FISHING LAWS 1951 ICE FISHING LAWS GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 45. Ice fishing regulated. AH inland waters of the state are closed to ice fishing except those which have been opened to fishing through the ice by rule and regulation of the commissioner. A person legally licensed may fish through the ice in the daytime with not more than 5 lines, set or otherwise, which shall be under the immediate supervision of such person, in any waters which have been opened to ice fishing by the commissioner. It shall be lawful to fish in the nighttime by using not more than 5 lines set or otherwise for cusk in the waters which have been opened to ice fishing by the commissioner for salmon, trout and togue. The commissioner may open other waters for fishing for cusk in the night­ time. FISHING LICENSES No resident of the State over 18 years of age and no non-resident over the age of 10 years can lawfully fish through the ice in any inland waters of the State, or transport any fish taken therefrom without a fishing license. Unless otherwise specified the legal lengths and daily limits which have been established for open water fishing in each county shall apply to all waters open to ice fishing in those counties. Minimum Legal Length Lakes and Ponds Rivers Salm on.................... Salm on.............. ...14 inches T o gu e...................... ...14 44 T ogue................. ...14 “ T rout........................ 7 44 T ro u t.................. 6 44 White Perch .......... 6 44 White Perch . 6 44 Daily Bag and Possession Limits— General Lakes and Ponds Rivers 15 fish or 7H lbs.l 15 fish or 5 lbs. 15 fish or 7H lbs.l in in 15 fish or 7M lbs. \ 15 fish or 7)4 lbs. all all 10 fish j 10 fish (except Washington Co.) Sm elts.......................... 4 qts. in all A person shall not have in his possession at any time more fish than he may lawfully take in one day. 2 In all cases wherein the daily bag limit differs from the tables as listed, the limit of fish which may be legally taken by any one person in any one day is stated herein either in numbers of fish or pounds under County or Group headings. Sec. 41. Sale of certain fish prohibited; penalty. It shall be un­ lawful for any person to sell or buy directly or indirectly any land­ locked salmon, trout, togue, black bass, white perch or pickerel except that pickerel may be sold in Washington county. A violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $10, or more than $30, and costs, for each offense, and in addition thereto, $1 for each fish sold or purchased. Sec. 42. Lumber camps shall not serve salmon, trout, togue, bass or pickerel. No owner, keeper or employee thereof or any other person shall take any salmon, trout, togue, black bass, white perch or pickerel from the inland waters of the state for the purpose of serving or consuming the same in any camp, house or other building used partly or wholly in lumbering operations, log driving, or con­ struction of any kind. It shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section on the part of any keeper or owner of such camp used in lumbering or construction operations to have in his possession in such camp any fish described in this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to pickerel in Washington county. Read carefully the County and Group Headings for exceptions to General Provisions. 3 ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY Open to ice fishing for pickerel, white perch, hornpout, yellow perch, eels, cusk, chubs and smelts from the time ice forms in the fall until it goes out in the spring. Allen Pond, Greene Lard Pond, Turner Androscoggin River Mud Pond, Turner Androscoggin River, Little No Name Pond, Lewiston Bartlett Pond, Livermore Range Pond, Lower, Poland Bear Pond, Big, Turner Round Pond, Turner Berry Pond, Greene Sabattus Pond, Webster Black Pond, Turner Sandy Pond, Turner Bog Brook, from Buckman’s Spear Pond, Webster bridge to Little Androscoggin Stone Mill Pond, Durham River, Mechanic Falls and Sutherland Pond, Webster Minot Taylor Pond, Auburn Hooper Pond, Greene The Basin, Auburn The above waters and all other lakes and ponds are open to ice fishing for all fish (except bass) during February and March EXCEPT those which are listed below as closed. Except that all natural or artificial ponds 10 acres or less formed on brooks, streams or rivers are closed to ice fishing. Closed Androscoggin Lake, Leeds Range Pond, Upper, Poland (also Kennebec County) Worthley Pond, Poland Auburn Lake, Auburn Allen Pond, Greene: Closed southwesterly of a line reaching from a red post at a point on the easterly shore to a rock with a pine tree on it and a stripe of red paint on the westerly shore. Middle Range Pond, Poland: Open for all except trout, salmon and bass during February and March only. Moose Hill Pond, East Livermore: Open for all fish during February and March. Pleasant Pond, Turner: Closed southerly of a line running from the red post in front of the old ice house on the southwest shore and touching the point of land on the west shore and running thence northeasterly to the red post on the northeasterly shore. Thompson Pond, Poland (also Cumberland and Oxford counties): Open for all fish (except bass) during February and March. Daily limit 4 in the aggregate of trout, togue and salmon. 4 AROOSTOOK COUNTY Open to ice fishing for pickerel, white perch, hornpout, yellow perch, eels, cusk, chubs and smelts from the time ice forms in the ;all until it goes out in the spring. Caribou Lake, Island Falls and Mattawamkeag Lake, Island T. 3, R. 4 Falls and T. 4, R. 3, W.E.L.S. Cochran Lake, Smyrna and Molunkus Lake, T. 1, R. 5, New Limerick T. A, R. 5, W.E.L.S., Mac­ Crystal Lake, Hersey wahoc Pit. Faulkner Pond, Weston Mud Lake, T. 4, R. 3, W.E.L.S. Flynn Pond, Benedicta and Mud Pond, Drew T. 1, R. 5, W.E.L.S. Nickerson Lake, New Limerick Green Pond, New Limerick and Linneus Hot Brook Lake, Bancroft North Lake, Orient Hot Pond, T. 6, R. 7 and Pleasant Lake, Island Falls and T. 6, R. 6 T. 4, R. 3 Long Lake, Oakfield Plunkett Pond, Benedicta Longley Lake, Orient Reed Pond, Macwahoc Macwahoc Lake, Upper, Sherman Skitacook Lake, Oakfield Macwahoc Lake, Lower, T. 2, R. 4 Spaulding Lake, Oakfield Mattaseunk Lake, T. 9, R. 5, Wytopitloek Lake, Glenwood W.E.L.S. Pit. All lakes and ponds in Aroostook county are closed to ice fishing for game fish, known as salmon, trout and togue EXCEPT those that are listed below, which are open to ice fishing for all kinds of fish during February, March and April: East Grand Lake, Weston, Squa Pan Lake, T. 10 and 11, Orient R. 4, Masardis Closed Bear Mt. Pond, Moro Pit. Mud Lake, Moro Pit. Bradford Pond, Moro Pit. Pleasant Lake, Moro Pit. Carr Pond, T. 13, R. 8 Portage Lake, Portage Cary Lake, Littleton Rockabema Lake, Moro Pit. Cross Lake, T. 16 & 17, R. 5 Ross Lake, Littleton Green Pond, Moro Pit. Square Lake, T. 15, 16, R. 5 Hale Pond, Moro Pit. Toteroad Pond, Moro Pit. Mud Lake, T. 17, R. 4, 5 Aroostook River, below the Ashland bridge in Ashland: Open during February and March. East Grand Lake, Weston: Open during February and March. ''1 Open to ice fishing for smelts Eagle Lake (Fish River chain) from December 1st until the Long Lake (Fish River chain) ice goes out in the spring, with Squa Pan Lake (Twp. 10, 11, R. 4) ” three hooks per line not larger St. Froid Lake (Fish River chain) than No. 6, and not less than three nor more than five inches J apart. Meduxnekeag Lake (or Drews Lake), New Limerick, Oakfield, Lin­ neus: Open for all fish except salmon, trout and bass from December 1st until the ice goes out in the spring. 5 CUMBERLAND COUNTY Open to ice fishing for pickerel, white perch, hornpout, yellow perch, eels, cusk, chubs and smelts from the time ice forms in the fall until it goes out in the spring. Anonymous Pond, Harrison Middle Pond, Sebago, Hiram Barker Pond, Sebago and Mile Pond, Falmouth Hiram Moose Pond, Otisfield Beaver Pond, Bridgton Otter Ponds, Standish Bill Rich Pond, Otisfield Otter Ponds, Bridgton Brandy Pond, Naples (No bag and Panther Pond, Raymond (open possession limit on white perch) for cusk in the nighttime) Brown Pond, Sebago Parker Pond, Casco Cold Rain Pond, Naples and Perley Pond, Sebago Sebago Pettengill Pond, Windham Collins Pond, Windham Pleasant Lake, Casco, Otisfield Duck Pond, Windham, Fal­ Presumpscot River mouth Rattlesnake Pond, Raymond Dumplin Pond, Casco Rattlesnake Pond, Little, Dundee Pond, Gorham Raymond Eagle Pond, Standish and Richville Mill Pond, Standish Buxton Saco River Goose Pond, Gray and Cum­ Sand Pond, Baldwin berland Saturday Pond, Otisfield Great Falls Pond, Gorham Southeast Pond, Sebago and Half Moon Pond, Baldwin Hiram Highland Lake, Bridgton Sebago Lake, Little, Windham Holt Pond, Bridgton and Gray (also for cusk in Ingalls Pond, Baldwin nighttime) Ingalls Pond, Bridgton Thomas Pond, Casco and Island Pond, Harrison and Raymond Waterford Thorn Pond, Baldwin Kezar Pond, Fryeburg and Trickey Pond, Naples Bridgton Watchic Pond, Standish Lily Pond, New Gloucester Watchic Pond, Little, Standish Marriners Pond, Sebago Woods Pond, Bridgton The above waters and all other lakes and ponds are open to ice fishing for all fish (except bass) during February and March EXCEPT those which are listed below as closed.