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My girlfriend and I got home from Maine this afternoon after driving all day.

We only fished freshwater twice.  First was the Royal River in Yarmouth.  I caught a small yellow perch and later had a 12" smallie on the line, but it came off once I got it close enough to see what it was.  After that we fished downstream a bit without the yaks and caught a fallfish. 

On Friday we finally got out to Sebago Lake.  It had been windy most of the week and you don't want to be on Sebago in a yak when it's windy.  Before I really got a chance to fish the deeper water my Lowrance quit on me.  I trolled a bit in a unknown depth, but it was really pointless without knowing the depth for sure or being able to mark fish to know how deep I need to be.  So we headed back to the shoreline and worked our way around.  I started catching some small smallies in the shallow rocks.  In a grassy creek channel I caught a bunch of small yellow perch. Seems like they fill the role of bluegills up there. 


On the way out of the creek I put a small bright spinnerbait to troll it for a while.  I didn't get far at all when it got nailed.  It was a pickeral, only other one I've caught besides one in Dragon Run.  They really don't like pickles, pike or muskie up there and encourage harvesting of all of them.  So and I did and brought it home frozen.  I figure with the water as clean and clear as it is in Sebago, it probably will be pretty decent tasting.  It at least looks like some good meat.



You can see the bottom in up to 12ft, pretty barren though, and sometimes rocky.  On the way back in we fished around a small island that was basically a rock pile where some sort of structure used to be.  We caught a dozen or so small smallie around here.  My GF hadn't had much luck all day and that finally changed her mood for the better.












The only saltwater fish we caught were while fishing off a community dock in the Pemaquid area.  Just some small mackeral caught with small kastmaster spoons.  I brought those home too.

On another day we made a trip to the top of Mt Washington.  Perfect weather that day and a great view. 




And while at Pemaquid my aunt and uncle took us for a boat ride out to East Egg Rock because my GF wanted to see the puffins.  We actually got closer than is usually possible before they fly away.

We also saw some harbor seals back in the harbor.


The Neptune is one of my uncle's boats.



From the other side of the Damariscotta. Their house is over there somewhere.



I bought some nice flies at LL Bean.  They've got a really big selection and I could've easily spent a lot more to build a collection.