A Fishing Scene Set in Icy Maine
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Smelt fishing is a deep and dependable tradition in Maine, with shanties dragged onto frozen tidal rivers and baited lines thrown into holes in the ice.
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This week's rundown of fishing reports from around the region: Area A: Mackerel are biting in the inner harbors and islands, and are expected to pick up as the weather heats up. Bait fishing is open from Small Point to Boothbay, though the weather has led to mixed results because of cooler water temperatures. The same problem is keeping striper ...
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BOSTON - The Coast Guard was searching Thursday night for a 52-foot fishing vessel with two crew members on board after detecting a distress signal, officials said.  The Lady Luck out of Newburyport was last reported about 12 miles southeast off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, at 2 a.m.
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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 8--Jonn Graham doesn't wait for warm weather to chase smallmouth bass.   He fishes as long as the ice is off area rivers, including the Mackinaw and Vermilion.
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Ice cores drilled from under the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming.
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By TARA BRAUTIGAM  ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - As Michael Petten stood on the deck of a fishing vessel engulfed in flames, staring at the icy North Atlantic, he faced a simple, awful dilemma: burn or freeze to death.
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WALTHAM -- Peter Yetten of Westford drives a pickup truck, loves to fish where the trout are biting, and enjoys coming home to his family after a hard day's work.
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GIRDWOOD, Alaska -- The snow is knee-high along the banks of Crow Creek, where men are crouching up to their chests in near-freezing water, and the air is several degrees colder.
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Maine's lobstermen have been hauling up phenomenal numbers for almost 15 years. Their 62.3 million pounds in 2002 set a record &#151; triple the typical catch during the 1980s. That's more than &#36;200 million worth of lobster and by far the dominant share of the Northeast's most valuable fishery. But can it last?
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By Bob Lamb, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 14--Ice fishing has been put on hold due to warm temperatures and treacherous ice conditions. Ice fishermen were out in full force through last weekend, but the recent warming trend has eroded ice.
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Sea spiders, tiny "shrimp," and giant barnacles are among the potential new species discovered where a vast ice shelf used to be.
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By Autumn Grooms, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 11--For a young Rosalie "Roz" Schnick, vacation meant grabbing her rod and reel and heading to a Canadian lake in search of northern pike.
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Spindly orange sea stars, fan-finned ice fish and herds of roving sea cucumbers are among the exotic creatures spied off the Antarctic coast in an area formerly covered by ice, scientists reported on Sunday.
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For an imaginary point in the midst of an ice-capped sea, the North Pole is a surprisingly hot piece of real estate.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  The recent blast of bitter cold weather is a welcome development for those looking forward to the Lake Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season, which opens Saturday.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 21--It's easy to sympathize with fishermen on Hatteras Island and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast who lament a pending rule that would limit catches of snowy grouper, a lucrative fish, and a few other species.
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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 1--The ice has formed on Camelot Lake in Mapleton in time for Saturday's annual ice fishing derby.