BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 24, 2026
More than 1,000 anglers spread across the ice Valentine’s weekend for the Sebago Lake Rotary’s 25th annual Ice Fishing Derby, making it the third-largest in the past decade and one of the biggest winter events on the lake in years. Warden Mike Pierre stopped by to check in and alerted me to one of my flags that had just popped. I hurried over and soon had a 20-inch lake trout on the ice. At the Raymond Beach registration station we saw the fish everyone had been talking about. Adam Hamilton registered a 17.45-pound lake trout measuring 38.34 inches — a true whopper.