Jeff, there's not much left of summer.

This may be one of our last chances to get out of the lake before the weather

turns.

Especially this far north, we're back on Lake Mem from Aegog in northern Vermont.

In fact, most of this lake can be found on the Canadian side of the border.

Right, I mean you can't go any further north than where we are without a passport. That's true. We've been to this

like twice before. Yeah we have. We came here looking for fur-bearing trout way back in 20

right that was peculiar and we came here looking for a local eccentric they called little Maggie back in May remember that one

I do this lake is legendary no question about it now if we're back here again. I'm guessing we didn't catch everything the first two times.

No, we didn't and maybe we saved the best for last or at the very least I think we saved the biggest for last.

Okay, I'm listening. So we've rode our boat out into the middle of Lake Memphra Magog in Northern Vermont to use ourselves

as bait to try to find a lake monster they call Memphra. They call them free. Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger and welcome to episode 316 of the New England.

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So we'll go searching for Memfray the Lake Monster right after this word from our sponsor

Great so we're bait for a lake monster? I know, pretty cool, right? No, no, it's not cool at all. I hate fish.

So the only thing I could hate more than fish is a lake monster.

Yeah, this tiny rowboat in the middle of the lake is a tough

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