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PONDERING CORE ESSENCE
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The Maritime skiff got pulled from her mooring on Columbus Day, and so that meant she could live in the garage and start fishing in fresh water for the remainder of Fall. My interest in larger trout, ease of access, driving range, and open fishing opportunities per fall regulation led me back to Lake Sebago. I enjoyed several increasingly productive trips in a row under a range of conditions varying from downright beautiful to equally as miserable. Quite often I had the State Park boating access site to myself, and I was usually miles from the nearest boat. I was seemingly always around bait and interesting structure, and I worked hard at honing my presentations to elicit more bites from the wild, resident lake trout, locally known as "togue". I mixed local intel and favored techniques with my history of trout fishing on Lake Michigan and Michigan's inland trout lakes. I resurrected a Big Jon downrigger that I had saved from Numenon and mounted it aboard amybaby22. I deployed long sections of lead core and copper wire to get my spoons down to depth, and found fairly consistent patterns of biters suspended at 45 feet and near bottom in about 75 feet of water. I'd heard that the local "bite goes white" in the fall, and I can't really argue against that point. I'd say "white glow" is even better! Equipped with excellent sonar/mapping, flexible rod holders, multiple rigged rods, the bow-mounted trolling motor, and now the downrigger, amybaby22 proved herself once again to be extremely fishy! My increased ability to troll down to speed (1.5 mph or even a bit less) kept my spoons in the zone and attractive. While none of the trout would have raised an eyebrow on Lake Michigan, I found some very decent local togue. Sebago has more of a reputation for numbers than size, but also pumps out the occasional outsized laker, so I might as well be there when it decides to eat! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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