As a Maine Guide, I love repeat clients. A repeat client means someone enjoyed the trip, the experience, the fishing and maybe even the Guide, enough that they want to come back and repeat it all. A few years back, I started guiding Rob Levine and his young son Trevor from Falmouth. They booked my […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: From Little Sebago to Coffee and Range ponds, May is trout trolling time
My old hunting and fishing partner would always say, “Trout fishing is best when the leaves on an alder are the size of a mouse’s ear.” I never compared alder to mouse, but I can tell you that May is the month to target trout in our local lakes and ponds. When my dad was […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: Waters are warming, let spring fishing begin
Spring has sprung. It was a mild winter and the lakes are opening up again, plenty reason to rejoice for this fishing fool. Sebago Lake barely froze this year, parts of Jordan Bay had a brief period of ice and you could fish the coves, but the big lake never caught. The Rotary Club’s Sebago […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: You can help out local farmers with a crow hunt
It started with a call from my old friend, Paul Bissonnette. Biz is a big bird hunter and loves wing shooting more than just about anything. We had hunted ducks before, but that was years ago. He told me that he knew a local farmer who was having troubles with crows getting into his feed […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: Will the big lake freeze?
I get asked more times in the winter when Sebago Lake will freeze or if it will freeze at all. I don’t claim to hold any power to see into the future, but a look at the past helps to answer the question. Although the big part of the lake often does not lock up […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: Deer season still open for stalwart hunters
While most of us have oiled our long guns and put them away for another season, the muzzleloader crowd still has two weeks to hunt. For those of you who have tagged out already, you are part of a record deer harvest that will go down in the books. With only preliminary data in thus […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: Kicking off deer season with young hunter
The tagging stations have their deer poles and scales up, hunters breakfasts are held at local churches and the sight of a buck or doe in the bed of a truck gets us all excited. It’s deer season! It seems that this year, deer season got off to an early start. Youth Day kicked it […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: Cast and blast this month
Turkey hunting, pheasant hunting and some of the best fishing of the season. Who doesn’t love October? On the water, Sebago angling is heating up. Salmon are on the bite during the early-morning hours and again after sunset. As the lake turns cooler, salmon come up closer to the surface and actively feed. I took […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: Water’s cooling, but fishing is heating up
Ray Lamair and his son Mason drove all the way up from Rhode Island to fish with me this past weekend. Their first time at Sebago Lake, they were intent on catching lake trout and salmon. We headed out on a perfect foggy morning and were trolling along the Dingley Islands in about 50 feet […]
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Lakes Region Sportsman: Salmon are on the bite
Three years ago I had some of the best salmon angling in recent years during the month of August. The fish were up top chasing alewives and were easy to find. Simply cruise the lake until you spotted a flock of seagulls or mergansers bombing the surface and troll through the spot. Instant salmon! For […]