Jeff Witham, owner of Jeff’s Bait and Tackle on Fore Street in Oxford, on his shop, his experience ice fishing and his plans and hopes for the fishy New Year.
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PHOTOS: Ice Fishing on Halls Pond in Paris
With 4 inches of ice, a small pond offers early season ice fishing.
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Northern Maine ice-fishing season to get extension
Gov. Janet Mills is expected on Monday to sign emergency legislation to give the IFW commissioner the authority to extend the season up north, where ample ice will allow ice fishermen to continue ice fishing.
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Free ice fishing weekend brings out new, experienced fishers
Tim Parker of Winthrop sets a trap Saturday morning on Maranacook Lake in Winthrop. (Sun Journal photo by Russ Dillingham) Every year, on the third weekend in February and the first weekend in June, The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife allows people to fish for free or without a license. According to the department, the […]
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Hauling in a 13-pound lunker in Turner
Philip Moon of Turner reacts Monday afternoon as he feels the heft of a 13-pound northern pike he caught off the Turner Boat Launch on the Androscoggin River in Turner. Fellow fisherman Robert Shufelt of Jay ran over to help haul in the lunker. Visit sunjournal.com to watch a video of the catch. (Sun Journal […]
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Jan. 1 is ice fishing's 'Black Friday'
POLAND — In the earliest hours of 2019, Rian Nilsson of Winthrop ventured through the darkness to his coveted spot on Middle Range Pond in Poland. “I made sure to get down here and beat everyone to my spot,” he said. Nilson, who arrived about 4:30 a.m., caught two brook trout before the sun came […]
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Ice-fishing is 'biggest passion' for Oxford man
OXFORD — Jeff Witham eats, sleeps and breathes ice-fishing — and that’s not just a tired cliche. Witham runs Jeff’s Bait and Tackle from the bottom half of his trailer on Fore Street in Oxford. “Ice-fishing is one of my biggest passions,” he said. With very cold weather freezing up smaller ponds in the area, […]
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Wardens: ‘Ice is doing pretty well’ but check it before heading out
Rob Angelides, of Lewiston, collects a trap while ice fishing Sunday on Cochnewagon Pond in Monmouth. Cool temperatures have drawn anglers to the ice, which game wardens caution is still very thin on many bodies of water. Angelides said he caught a few small trout and cut through 6 inches of ice to put out […]
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Inching closer to ice fishing
Mike Timberlake, left, Steve Benedetto, center, and Jack Driscoll, all of Livermore, chat in Timberlake’s ice shack on the side of Brettuns Pond in Livermore on Monday. Timberlake has not put the “Brettun’s Pond Casino” out on the ice just yet, but that has not stopped him and his buddies from running the wood stove and […]