Committee Chairman: Vacant with: Peter Roach,
Wes Lord, Buck Plummer, Roland Tilton, Sherwood Moody, Jerry Wilson, Bones Ellis, Ralph Marseau and Bill Walton - If you are interested in volunteering to serve on this committee, please contact Pete Roach.The CLIC Fisheries Committee supports Catch and RELEASE Fishing.
The committee's major project in 2007 was to encourage all Chip Lake area fishermen to LOG ALL FISH CAUGHT DURING 2007.
To that end, the committee has developed a logging sheet that was mailed to many fishermen...no matter how many or few fishing trips that fisherman plans. The East Grand Lake fishery is suffering and we want your help and input to help determine WHY and HOW to fix the problem. Additional LOG FORMS may be picked up a various local locations...NOW. If you can't find any, e-mail ChipLakeINFO<AT>aol.com and forms will be snail-mailed to you.The logging form is too detailed to reproduce here but some of the details are listed and described below. The form is a combination of both the ME Department of Inland Fish & Wildlife LOG FORM and the NB Department of Natural Resources Recreational Fisheries Survey LOG FORM. After the CLIC Fisheries Committee reviews the log forms that are being solicited, the forms will be sent to both ME DIF&W and NB DNR for their use.
ALL Fishermen are asked to log the fish they catch:
In the FIRST SECTION: Identifying each fishing trip/day with the month and day, the number of fishermen in the fishing party, their daily starting and ending times (to the nearest half hour), the general weather conditions, the lake fished along with the area of the lake.
In the SECOND SECTION...regarding ONLY the fish that they TARGETED for that specific fishing trip/day: the name of that targeted species, the number of that species killed/kept (and if any are killed, the contents of the fish's gut...what the fish had been eating) the number of that species released and a range of lengths and weights of that targeted species (estimated if the fish are released). If the fishing party specifically targets two or more different species, on one trip/day, they are requested to use additional lines on the log form for each targeted species...using the same number for the fishing trip/day. Additional information requested on the targeted species caught is a count of which and how many fins are observed as having been clipped (see the drawing at the bottom of this page...indicates the age of the fish). Finally, as optional data, the TYPE of lure/bait is requested and the GENERAL DEPTH that you fished is being solicited...you are not asked to disclose your "secrets."
The LAST SECTION of the log form asks for a total of other (non-targeted) species caught and we are especially interested in any anomalies observed in the fish you caught...if there's anything that the local biologists would want to know. Plenty of room is allowed for your comments and observations on the back of the logging sheet.
The log forms are available to anyone who will use them and are (now) available by mail or (soon) may be picked up at local fishing lodges and various general stores (where fishermen might purchase licenses, lures and bait). Fishermen are requested to mail their completed logs to the committee as soon as they are filled (several trips can be logged on one set of forms) new log forms will be mailed back...or another log may be picked up at the distribution locations mentioned above.
This in an ambitious project and the committee needs the help of all individual fishermen. If you plan to fish on any of the Chiputneticook Lakes, YOUR help is solicited.
For future reference, immediately after a CLIC Fish Log Form is filled, please mail it to:
CLIC Fisheries Committee
P. O. Box 85
Orient, ME 04471-0085The fact that you provide a stamp and envelope to get it to us is deeply appreciated.
Only 7 responses were received to our logging project in 2008 - If you still have log forms you may use them for the 2008 season. EGL is slated to receive ONLY 6000 Salmon this year. A substantial logging report MIGHT get us more salmon next year.
East Grand Lake
Salmon, Togue and Brook Trout Stocking History
Resource: Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and WildlifeYEAR >Year of release - Spring as SY unless indicated differently (October as FF)
SPECIES >> LLS = Land Locked Salmon; BKT = Brook Trout; LT = Lake Trout/Togue
COUNT >> Approximate number of fish released
TYPE/AGE >> SY = Spring yearling (larger); FF = Fall Fingerling (smaller)
SIZE >> in “inches” through 1974 and then in “average number of fish per pound”
FINS CLIPPED >> B = Adipose Fin - Dorsal fin in front of the tail;
E = LEFT Ventral fin in the middle of the body;
F = RIGHT Ventral fin in the middle of the body
(See the diagram at the bottom of this page for a description of fin designations.)
STRAIN >> West Grand [LLSalmon] • Sebago [LLSalmon] • MHS [BrooKTrout]Michael R. Smith, Regional Chief Fisheries Biologist, Enfield, Maine covers East Grand Lake and north Michael.R.Smith<AT>maine.gov
Gordon "Nels" Kramer, Fisheries Biologist, Enfield, Maine covers East Grand Lake and north Gordon.Kramer<AT>maine.gov
Rick Jordan, Regional Chief Fisheries Biologist, Machais, Maine covers Spednic Lake and south.
Year
Species
Count
Type - Age
Size
Fins Clipped
Strain
1961 LLS 21,000 SY 2-4" 1962 LLS 10,500 SY 4-6" BKT 10,000 SY 4-6" 1963 LLS 20,000 SY 4-6" 1964 LLS 23,800 SY 4-6" BKT 9,700 SY 6-8" 1965 LLS 10,000 SY 4-6" 1966 LLS 21,000 SY 4-6" 1967 LLS 21,000 SY 4-6" 1968 LLS 21,000 SY 4-6" 1969 LLS 32.300 SY 4-6" 1970 LLS 34,000 SY 4-6" 1971 LLS 10,000 SY 4-6" LT 10,000 SY 4-6" 1972 LLS 16,500 SY 4-6" LT 16,000 SY 4-6" 1973 LLS 33,000 SY 4-6" LT 10,000 SY 4-6" 1974 LLS 25,000 SY 4-6" 1975 LLS 24,000 SY small 16.1/# 1976 LLS 24,900 SY 9.5/# LT 30,000 SY 25.1/# v. sm. 1977 LLS 12,000 SY small 16.5/# 1978 LLS 24,000 SY small 11.5/# 1979 LLS 24,000 SY 9.1/# E&F WGRAND 1980 LLS 24,000 SY 6.5/# F WGRAND 1981 LLS 16,000 SY 8.0/# B WGRAND 1982 LLS 16,000 SY 9.0/# NONE WGRAND 1983 LLS 16,000 SY 7.0/# NONE WGRAND 1984 LLS 16,200 SY 6.3/# NONE WGRAND 1985 LLS 19,100 SY 7.7/# NONE WGRAND 1986 LLS 20,600 SY 6.4/# NONE WGRAND 1987 LLS 18,800 SY large 5.2/# NONE SEBAGO 1988 LLS 20,000 SY 8.2/# F WGRAND 1989 LLS 19,100 SY 6.9/# B WGRAND 1990 LLS 16,600 SY 6.6/# E WGRAND 1991 LLS 15,000 SY 8.2/# E&F WGRAND 1992 LLS 12,400 SY 7.1/# F WGRAND 1993 LLS 14,800 SY B WGRAND 1994 LLS 14,300 SY NONE WGRAND 1995 LLS 14,300 SY NONE WGRAND 1996 LLS 14,300 SY F WGRAND 1997 LLS 14,700 SY B 1998 LLS 14,000 SY E WGRAND BKT 3,900 FF NONE MHS 1999 LLS 12,000 SY E&F WGRAND BKT 4,000 SY E&B BKT 5,000 FF E&F 2000 LLS 12,000 F BKT 6,000 NONE BKT 8,096 F 2001 LLS 12,000 6-8" B BKT 9,000 4-8" B & NONE 2002 LLS 8,000 6-8" E BKT 3,000 FF 6-8" E&B Kennebago 2003 LLS 12,000 SY 6-8" E&F BKT 5000 FF 6-8" E&F 2004 LLS 12000 SY 6-8" F BKT 5000 FF 8-10" F 2005 LLS 12000 SY ? ? BKT 5000 FF ? ? 2006 LLS 10000 6-8" BKT 10700 6-14" 2007 LLS BKT 2008 LLS BKT Note how the number of salmon that are stocked has been steadily decreasing over the last several years. We need your help to change this trend by reporting on the history of fish caught in 2008. Obtain a CLIC Creel Logging Form, complete and return it. See above.
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