Third Day camping on Sebago Lake. Fishing with my buddy Brandon for Lake Trout in seriously super deep water.
Sebago Lake is 45 square miles, 14 miles long, 316 feet deep, with an average depth of +100 feet deep. The weather is usually pretty rough on Sebago and Ice Conditions are never safe for very long. Sebago was once THE world-class Landlocked Salmon fishery and poor management practices have destroyed it. The State stocked Lake Trout in Sebago from 1972-1982 and they quickly outcompeted the native Salmon for the Salmons primary forage, the rainbow smelt. The Lake Trout decimated the smelt population and ate the salmon out of house and home.
The State inadvertently created an incredible lake trout fishery where thousands of anglers travelled from near and far to ice fish or open water fish Sebago and catch 100-200 Lakers from 2-5 pounds in a single day with a jig rod. Incredible! Thousands of happy anglers. Many successful fishing guides made a living on Sebago Lake. Now the State is trying to manage anglers into killing all of the lake trout they catch. Pictures of piles of dead fish on the ice make headlines in the national news. Wild eagles have become dependent on the whims of anglers to waste the fish. Biologists allegedly now tell anglers to kill the fish and throw it back down the hole into the lake which is also the Water Supply for Portland and many surrounding towns drinking water. Does Sebago have a Lake Trout Problem or just a history of incredibly poor Management?
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