{"id":130,"date":"2012-01-12T22:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T03:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bachpeople.wordpress.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2012-01-12T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T03:56:38","slug":"lake-sadawga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/lake-sadawga\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Sadawga"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Noriko Okabe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Originally posted on September 25, 2010)<\/p>\n

This past summer during the Marlboro Music Festival season, my buddy Miles and I went to a lake we had never fished before.\u00a0 We knew of this lake for a couple of years at least, but we had been too busy exploring Harriman Reservoir as our primary fishing water.\u00a0 Probably we go fishing on a boat about 10 times a season, and we usually get to fish for a couple of hours at a time \u2014 that isn’t really enough to explore Harriman.\u00a0 We had tried a few different boat launching sites, different tackles, and different tactics there during a few Marlboro seasons…\u00a0 And actually we did find, this past season, a new public boat launching ramp that we didn’t even know it existed, and we fished around there for the first time.\u00a0 That day we saw a couple of bold eagles flying by \u2014 it was quite a sight.\u00a0 But what makes this reservoir a bit less attractive is the number of motorboats and jet-skis we see there.\u00a0 Loud noises, and intrusive violent waves that follow them, are something that could really bother us, and on a Sunday or a public holiday, it could get so busy on the lake that we would rarely enjoy stillness and grandeur of this beautiful lake.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the noises, I do like to fish Harriman Reservoir.\u00a0 After all, that was where I caught a 19-inch smallmouth bass, and that’s where I never had no-fish day on the boat.\u00a0 I’m getting to know which bait to use, which color to pick, and what structure to cast at for smallmouths.\u00a0 Lake Sadawga, which is a largemouth (warm water) lake, didn’t interest me much initially, because I get to fish for largemouths here at home a lot in spring.\u00a0 Smallmouth bass fishing is something I get to do only during the festival season in Vermont.\u00a0 But this year, things weren’t the same.\u00a0 Because of my broken wrist, I hadn’t fished for largemouths since April.\u00a0 I suppose I was a bit hungry for largemouth bass fishing this year.<\/p>\n

So went we to Sadawga.\u00a0 This lake is actually very close to the south-end of Harriman, but it appears completely different.\u00a0 No rocky shoreline like the reservoir.\u00a0 This place is vegetation-heavy; you won’t have much success casting crankbaits.\u00a0 Our favorite bait to use at Harriman, a twin-tail grub on a football jighead, won’t work here.\u00a0 We launched our boat and we looked around.\u00a0 Yes, its appearance really affirmed it \u2014 it is a largemouth lake, no question about it.\u00a0 I knew what bait would work for us here.\u00a0 My go-to bait in Indiana, Gary Yamamoto’s 5-inch Senko, should do the job.<\/p>\n

We had some good outings, and some bad, at Sadawga.\u00a0 I had my first no-fish-on-the-boat day there, but on another day I did catch a nice one on my topwater bait that I kept in my tackle box since early ’90s.\u00a0 Miles improved his baitcasting technique quite a bit there.\u00a0 Senkos really proved to me, once again, that they are the premium all-purpose bass bait you don’t want to go fishing without.\u00a0 I hooked my hand with a barbed treble hook there.\u00a0 We lost our tackle there (we did get our rods and reels back, thanks to the local family who recovered them).\u00a0 Miles caught a northern pike-look-alike (pickerel) that I had never seen.\u00a0 We already have some stories to tell from our experiences at Sadawga, after fishing there only for one season.<\/p>\n

But what makes this lake special is how peaceful it is there.\u00a0 It is calm, and it is beautiful.\u00a0 What we hear are birds and wind.\u00a0 Sometimes we realize how disturbing our speaking voice can get\u2014 \u00a0Being out there on Sadawga was definitely one of the most peaceful moments I had in a long while.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Originally posted on September 25, 2010) This past summer during the Marlboro Music Festival season, my buddy Miles and I went to a lake we had never fished before.\u00a0 We knew of this lake for a couple of years at least, but we had been too busy exploring Harriman Reservoir as our primary fishing water.\u00a0 Probably we go fishing on a boat about 10 times a season, and we usually get to fish for a couple of hours at a time \u2014 that isn’t really enough to explore Harriman.\u00a0 We had tried a few different boat launching sites, different tackles, and different tactics there during a few Marlboro seasons…\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,6,8],"tags":[30,70,73],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-bach","category-blog","category-fishing","category-marlboro-music","tag-bass-fishing","tag-lake-sadawga","tag-marlboro-music-festival","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bachpeople.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}