Moosehead Lake region fishing report

In the Moosehead Lake region, there is still plenty of snow and ice.

“There’s not much going on,” said IFW fisheries biologist Tim Obrey. “There is some open water right at the mouth of the Moose River, and anglers are fishing there.”

The Moose River can have some very good early season fishing. “When the smelt start to run, the salmon and lake trout really start to feed, but it looks like we are probably about two weeks from the smelts running there,” Obrey said.

Some anglers are trying lakes and ponds where the ice along the shoreline has receded enough to cast. Obrey expects waters in the southern part of his region to lose their ice by the end of next week.

As for Moosehead?

“Historically, ice out on Moosehead is the first week of May. For the last 20 years, it has been a little earlier,” Obrey said. “This year, it looks like we are on schedule for May.”