MaineBassMan

DANG!,DANGG!!, DANGGGGGG!!!!!!

Downeast Maine...the true Doweast Maine

Yes believe it or not. Two seasons ago at a local bass tournament a team brought in a 28.5# 5 fish bag limit and second place had 20lbs

DANG!!!!!!

What a great weekend! We have had a month of rain and clouds with no sun, very depressing. This doesn't hold us back though! Last Friday, May 3rd, father and I went fishing on our favorite body of water. We only went for 4 hours because of other obligations....We got on the water and were a little bummed at the water temp it was 47°f. We checked one of our secret holes and only managed to catch a few small ones. We decided to run the lake looking for the warmest water and managed to find 51°f water. It was game on!! For the next 3 hours we caught 31 bass mostly between 2#12oz and upper 3#. I caught the largest one at 4# 14oz and the day ended with our best 5 going 17#12oz. Then we just had to return on Saturday, now the water temp only got up to 51.7°f the day before and all bites came on jigs or Texas rigged craws. This day the water temp climbed to 53.7°f even though it remained cloudy all day with no sun. This day the hot lures were home made chatterbaits and Texas rigged craws. This was our best day my very first cast landed a 5# 06oz bass!! The rest of the day was amazing we boated 52 bass a lot of 3# plus and my Dad beat my lunker with a 5# 10oz bass and our best 5 totaled 21# 09oz! Lucky our wives love us lol because we returned for a 3rd day. Funny thing is the sun finally showed itself however you could feel a high pressure and there was a halo around the sun. We wanted the sun so bad the previous two days and now we have it and the bass I think were in shock lol. The bite slowed down a lot even though the water temp jumped to 58°f!! The baits that worked the last two days stopped working. I finally figured a bite out and the ole swimbait saved the day. When we caught bass they were over 3 pounds we only caught 24 bass this day but managed to put our best 5 at 18# 04oz and the largest bass went 4# 06 oz. It was still a great day!!

Lucky our wives love us lol because we returned for a 3rd day. Funny thing is the sun finally showed itself however you could feel a high pressure and there was a halo around the sun. We wanted the sun so bad the previous two days and now we have it and the bass I think were in shock lol. The bite slowed down a lot even though the water temp jumped to 58°f!! The baits that worked the last two days stopped working. I finally figured a bite out and the ole swimbait saved the day. When we caught bass they were over 3 pounds we only caught 24 bass this day but managed to put our best 5 at 18# 04oz and the largest bass went 4# 06 oz. It was still a great day!!

Then we just had to return on Saturday, now the water temp on Friday only got up to 51.7°f and all bites came on jigs or Texas rigged craws. This day the water temp climbed to 53.7°f even though it remained cloudy all day with no sun. This day the hot lures were home made chatterbaits and Texas rigged craws. This was our best day. My very first cast landed a 5# 06oz bass!! The rest of the day was amazing. We boated 52 bass a lot of 3# plus and my Dad beat my lunker with a 5# 10oz bass and our best 5 totaled 21# 09oz!

What a great weekend! We have had a month of rain and clouds with no sun, very depressing. This doesn't hold us back though! Last Friday, May 3rd, father and I went fishing on our favorite body of water. We only went for 4 hours because of other obligations....We got on the water and we were a little bummed at the water temp it was 47°f. We checked one of our secret holes and only managed to catch a few small ones. We decided to run the lake looking for the warmest water and managed to find 51°f water. It was game on!! For the next 3 hours we caught 31 bass mostly between 2#12oz and upper 3#. I caught the largest one at 4# 14oz and the day ended with our best 5 going 17#12oz.

Yes but Northern bass like to bite you don't like catching bass dont come up here.?

The first one of the season it's the best bite all year.

She saved the Day!! Plenty of water to go around and non-pressured bass! Most places I go if I see another boat I'm like "dang lake is getting crowded"" Its only going to get better too! Once the water hits 50°f this will be considered a slow day.

It's been a long winter, and the weather still stinks!! After a rough start yesturday, meaning halfway to the lake Father's Toyota died, bad alternator. We had to call my wife, she drove 30 min to us picked my father up they drove a half hour back to town bought a new battery then we limped the truck back to town to drop it off at the garage. Remember this is our first trip great start? We almost said forget get it but I couldn't not go lol, so my wife drove me all the way home grabbed my old reliable Chevy and went back to garage. Hooked up the boat and went fishing. We got on the water around 1:30pm , it was 50°f out foggy, windy rain and water temp was 45.6°F. Well let's just say that on my very first cast I caught two 3 pound smallmouth at the same time on a 9ft diving crankbait!! They day ended up being awesome! We caught 35 smallmouths and 12 largemouth, biggest smallmouth was 4 pounds even, caught a bunch of 3s and high 2s. Our best 5 went 17 pounds. We fished to 6:00pm, the day ended up being way better then expected.

Hmm, I don't care about Ike, it was a good day lots of nice bass caught and in my great State. No it's time for me to go fishing!

It's been a long winter, and the weather still stinks!! After a rough start yesturday, meaning halfway to the lake Father's Toyota died, bad alternator. We had to call my wife, she drove 30 min to us picked my father up they drove a half hour back to town bought a new battery then we limped the truck back to town to drop it off at the garage. Remember this is our first trip great start? We almost said forget it but I couldn't not go lol, so my wife drove me all the way home grabbed my old reliable Chevy and went back to garage. Hooked up the boat and went fishing. We got on the water around 1:30pm , it was 50°f out foggy, windy rain and water temp was 45.6°F. Well let's just say that on my very first cast I caught two 3 pound smallmouth at the same time on a 9ft diving crankbait!! The day ended up being awesome! We caught 35 smallmouths and 12 largemouth, biggest smallmouth was 4 pounds even, caught a bunch of 3s and high 2s. Our best 5 went 17 pounds. We fished to 6:00pm, the day ended up being way better then expected. Caught them on a bunch of lures jerks, cranks, swimbaits, tubes and Texas craws. It's only going to get better.

All I can say is did you see the monster Hackney caught!! Almost 7 lbs. That's an old northern bass right there.

We've been blessed in my neck of the woods the last ten years with fairly easy winters and earlier then usually ice out......that said this winter is good ole traditional winter and we will probably have a more traditional ice out so no matter what I predict I'll be fishing no later then April 26, that said things can change fast so maybe even earlier.

GFF is my 2nd favorite lake, to be honest fishing is way better there than on Big or Long, that said as you travel towards big the tree stump disappear, however you have to keep an eye for rock piles everywhere. There are also submerged cribs filled with rocks for holding the log drives back in the day. All of our lakes unless you know how to run them it's best to go slow and have a spotter, most of our lakes are not marked. In short more and bigger bass in GFF, 3 to 4 pound smallmouth and largemouth are not uncommon, but the average bass is a healthy 2 1/2 pounds. If you were there in June I was there too, GFF was great all year I fished there at least 12 times and it never let me down. Don't forget it's catch and release only for smallmouth and please don't Iisten to the guides and IF&W and dont kill the largemouth, there is enough water and feed for both species and the fishing has become even better with both.

Oh just a few more This was a pair of 4 poundahs netted at the same from the deep. This was a cool catch! Was fishing topwater for smallmouth when this fish exploaded on the lure, fought amazingly thought it was a monster instead a pair of decent smallies decided to share lunch. Both 2 pounds or so, a 4 pound catch lol. Then just a few more 4 pound deepwater largemouth

Sorry late to the party, I'm from Cutler grew up there now I live in East Machias 20 min from Cutler. Hope you found some water. The area is loaded with great lakes well within 45 min from cutler. Great bass fishing.

Lol, I've been looking into deep water tackle, my plan is to unlock some deep secrets on several other lakes in my area. We were able to find hot deep water bites on 3 of the lakes we fish, now to find more!!

I've been here all along. I mostly lurk, and read all the post. Dwight by now I think you see I'm a creature of habbit. About this time every year I make my winter blues post awaiting open water. I mean to post through out the fishing season but I just never take time to do so. I still really enjoy seeing those beautiful smallies that you and Ajay post. Going to try a new lake this summer after watching Hank Parker numb some giant smallmouth there on tv. I was very surprised to see him catch those monsters because that lake is known for cold water species and the State would like to see the smallies gone...grrr. It seems the secret bass fishery of Maine isn't so much a secret.

195 TX with talons 150 Optimax and 80lbs minkota with auto deploy/stow and spot lock. Wow Ajay some good fishing there!

Thanks, over 21 inches of ice on the lakes going to be awhile. You don't realize how many fish you catch in a season until you look back, I didn't even share a 1/4 of my pictures...many many more and then you think " I didn't even take pictures of all the fish we caught, not even close!".

This one was fine, spring bass bleed easy. Wasn't hooked in gills, I think tip of tongue. Wife with a hog, Another wife hog Brother in law's biggest largemouth 1 oz shy of 6# Ok ok I'm done I have way too many pictures to weed through. Can't wait for spring!!!

The entire season starting in April was great. We caught more 4 and 5 pound bass this past season then most others. I'll post a few more of random bass caught throughout, I have so many I don't want to bog the site down lol so I'll keep it low.