The True North Lifestyle Podcast
The True North Lifestyle Podcast
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Join Joe Kruse, Rick Labbe, and Lee Libby as they discuss all aspects of The True North Lifestyle. The topics include hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, flying, and much more. We combine years of experience along with some humor as we interview the characters that live it every day.
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Covers a diverse range of outdoor activities with a focus on hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, and flying, highlighted by episodes that include personal anecdotes, expert advice on outdoor techniques, and humorous tales from the wilderness and adventures in nature.
Join Joe Kruse, Rick Labbe, and Lee Libby as they discuss all aspects of The True North Lifestyle. The topics include hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, flying, and much more. We combine years of experience along with some humor as we interview the characters that live it every day.
An underwater drone revealed a 1974 Camaro sitting on the bottom of Sebago Lake.
Jason Smith of Maine Freshwater Exploration: Going Deep joins Joe Kruse, Rick Labbe, and Jeff Paradis to tell the incredible story behind the discovery—and what happened when a recovery team tried to bring the car back to the surface after nearly 50 years underwater.
Jason originally returned to Sebago Lake searching for a 1991 Polaris Indy 500 snowmobile that had disappeared through the ice. With only minutes of battery power remaining, he spotted something unexpected in the distance: a 1974 Camaro resting on the lake bottom.
The discovery led to an investigation and recovery effort involving divers, law enforcement, lift bags, boats, and plenty of questions about how the car ended up there.
Jason also shares how his curiosity about Maine’s lakes, rivers, fish, and hidden underwater world inspired him to launch Maine Freshwater Exploration. The crew discusses underwater drone technology, recovering lost fishing equipment, exploring beneath the ice, locating sunken vehicles, and the strange objects Jason has discovered underwater.
They also dive into brook trout, lake trout, cusk, spawning areas, spring holes, thermoclines, river currents, and what underwater footage has taught Jason about where fish actually hold.
From schools of lake trout to lost phones, fishing rods, anchors, bottles, sunken vehicles, and a tree covered in fishing lures, you never know what the drone will reveal next.
If you enjoy Maine fishing, underwater exploration, lost treasure, sunken vehicles, fish behavior, and outdoor mysteries, this episode is for you.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:43 Meet Jason Smith
03:30 What inspired the underwater drone
07:58 Launching Maine Freshwater Exploration
13:40 Dropping his phone in 130 feet of water
15:00 Recovering lost items
18:19 Navigating without GPS
20:16 Exploring beneath the ice
21:40 Can you fish with an underwater drone?
23:00 What fish finders may really be showing
25:32 Jason’s strangest discoveries
29:30 A tree covered in fishing lures
32:25 Finding a 1991 snowmobile
37:31 Discovering a 1974 Camaro
38:45 Investigating the sunken car
40:25 Planning the recovery
42:04 Who owns a recovered vehicle?
42:45 Divers inspect the Camaro
45:48 The Camaro rolls during the first lift
52:10 How badly the car had deteriorated
54:00 Could a drone help solve a cold case?
1:02:17 What Jason learned about fish behavior
1:04:08 Fisheries biologists and underwater drones
1:05:17 Hundreds of spawning lake trout
1:06:58 How deep do fish live?
1:12:08 Find Maine Freshwater Exploration
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