Whitefish Caught In Cold Stream Pond Ice Fishing Derby

News spread quickly around Cold Stream Pond on Sunday, February 22, the last day of the local Boy Scout Ice Fishing Derby, that a pair of lake whitefish had been caught and registered by the Maine Inland Fisheries Department on the Lowell/Lincoln end of the lake.

Local anglers have known that Upper Cold Stream (locally known as The Big Narrows) has had a population of whitefish for over thirty years, but even one fisheries employee seemed surprised to hear the news of whitefish in the big lake.

The catch for the day according to one source, was average to good, although the word was that Saturday was a slow day on most parts of the lake. One party on Sunday landed six togue, while others caught some salmon and a few perch in the some of the shallower parts of the lake.

There were even reports of a couple of near miss brook trout that likely would have weighed in around five lbs.