MaineBassMan

Yep! Check my fishing Solo+wind+raind thread in fishing trip section. I caught a nice five pounder today in cover that is usually high and dry.

Thats awesome! Looks like a future dedicated fishing buddy!

LOL! I know but if I had a 50* day limit I wouldn't get to go fishing until may-june Trust me it was pushing me to the limit. Thanks though.

The hale bouncing off the deck: The snow: Time to go home!

Lets start here! First fish of the day and the lure: Second fish of the day: Lets cast into these alders! Thunk thunk whats that? Oh ya a nice 5lbs 03 largey! Followed by a colorful dink: A 3 1/2 pounder A almost 3 pounder: Got too wet and cold no more bass pictures but it was 26 total for the day

Just got back from an uncomfortable day of fishing. Got on the lake around 0930 today, I almost didn't go because it was suppose to be very windy. It was suppose to be in the high 40's so I decided to go fishing instead of sitting around on my butt. Well the weather man was wrong again! It ended up only topping out at 41 degrees and thats not counting the 15-25mph winds. I tried fishing a couple of spots in the lake and ended up not getting any bites. So I decided to go and fish the stream out to the main river. The water was very high from all of the previous rain storms. There was a bunch of trees blown down into the water, which should make for some nice cover later on. The water temperature was right at 46 degrees. Came up to a beaver hut and started fishing in the stream. I grabbed my rod that had my 3/8 oz black and blue jig with a black and red fleck craw trailer. First cast tight in next to the beaver hut. I let the ripples settle and then I reeled in the slack. Bang bang, my first bite for the day, "awesome", my mind thought! I set the hook and reeled in my first very feisty largemouth for the day. He weighed two and a half pounds. Very healthy looking and boy he gave a good fight, even in cold water. This proved to be the pattern for the rest of the day. It was miserable out there though. It rained, then it haled, and then it snowed and the wind was awful. However! I had a great day of fishing! I caught 26 bass for the day. One dink but the rest were good solid 2 1/2 pound bass. I caught one 3 1/2 pound largemouth and lost one at the boat that looked to be in the four pound range. The highlight for the day was the beautiful 5 lbs 03 oz largemouth that I caught. It was the third bass for the day at that time. She was laying in about a foot of water right tight inside the alders. She put up a great fight and took lots of drag! And she put a big smile on my face. Going out again tomorrow. Going for smallmouths again. The trip to the stream: It was calm for the first hour, thats why the lake is so flat, that changed! Tempting shoreline: Should be good cover a little later on in the season:

Would have gone back out today but it is raining hard once again and I am fighting off a cold. i think that i will man up though and try a new lake tomorrow it is suppose to have big smallies.

good job! feels good getting back on the water!

I'm in a pickle, do I go back to this lake tomorrow or do I go and try a new lake?

Looks like you had a great day of fishing!

Nice video, and great looking bass.

Just a side note; this was my second time out with the new trolling motor, and it is awesome! Converted my boat over to a 24 volt system and mounted a Minn Kota Terrova with I-Pilot. I love the anchor mode! Catch a bass or see a piece of cover, hit the anchor button and it holds you in a 5 foot circle even in high winds! Lets you slow down and pick cover apart, plus you can take pictures and weigh fish and not loose your position. The record a track feature is great too! start recording a track along a stretch of good fishing and you can just push a button and it will take you back along the same track in both directions so you can fish the same stuff over and over. You can pick up those other bass that were there that you missed on the first approach. Jumping from a 55 pound thrust to an 80 pound thrust trolling motor is the cats meow! It was like fishing from a whole different boat! Tracker should really send the 190 TX bass boat equipped right from the factory with a 24 volt system. The 55 pound trolling motor is just barely enough for that boat. You get any wind over 10 MPH and your hating life, not anymore though!

You don't have smallmouths in Jersey? It was a long winter and we still can't get a good stretch of nice weather. It snowed on my way home from the lake yesterday.

You shouldn't be! You live a great fishing state. Thinks I'm going to eat one trout for breakfast today and one for dinner!

Thanks guys, ya doubles are great. Going next Wednesday think I might try a new lake that is just down the road from this one. Its suppose to have the same quality smallmouths too, I'll find out. If you look in the first double picture you can just barely make out a large boulder just under the surface over my left shoulder. One bass came off the left side and one came off the right side, we called the casts. That boulder is sitting in 8 foot of water, big rock. Thats where they were located in about 8 ft of water on isolated boulders.

very nice! I love fishing in the rain.

Hopefully I will be able to cull it? Its a start though! Maine Record smallmouth 8lbs even 3.81 / 8 x 100 = 47.63 Its the one in my right hand:

And now the bonus brown trout:

sorry pic heavy

Well the smallmouth were biting today! Got to the lake around 0905 and at the landing it was a balmy 38 degrees not counting the 10-15 mph winds . Didn't think we would do that well especially when there is still chunks of ice floating around the lake . We didn't catch anything for the first hour an a half until my friend caught a nice 3lbs 05oz. smallmouth on a Texas rigged rage craw. He kept throwing that with no more bites. I started out with a 6-9ft crankbait with no luck at all. Then I switched over to a Rapala gold suspending husky jerk-bait. About a dozen cast into the bait I was about to switch to something else when all of a sudden I notice a very nice looking bronze back following behind it. It never committed. I had a few more of these so I decided that they want that bait just not the presentation that I was using,(a little too fast). So I said to my friend "I think I'm going to try a longer pause between pulls" and on the next cast I hooked into a nice smallmouth at 3lbs 09oz. That was all she wrote, we started catching after that. We caught somewhere in the high teens as fare as numbers. Not one of them were under 3lbs in fact I do believe the smallest one was 3lbs 03oz. The largest ones were at 3lbs 13ozs. We didn't break four pounds today but our five fish smallmouth bag was a little over 18lbs. The bonus was that we also caught four brown trout on the same lures that all measured 15 1/2", Guess what I'm having for dinner? It was a great day! Here is the proof: Tight lines to all! 2011 is looking good! No duplicates all seperate catches.

And now the bonus brown trout:

sorry pic heavy

Well the smallmouth were biting today! Got to the lake around 0905 and at the landing it was a balmy 38 degrees not counting the 10-15 mph winds . Didn't think we would do that well especially when there is still chunks of ice floating around the lake . We didn't catch anything for the first hour an a half until my friend caught a nice 3lbs 05oz. smallmouth on a Texas rigged rage craw. He kept throwing that with no more bites. I started out with a 6-9ft crankbait with no luck at all. Then I switched over to a Rapala gold suspending husky jerk-bait. About a dozen cast into the bait I was about to switch to something else when all of a sudden I notice a very nice looking bronze back following behind it. It never committed. I had a few more of these so I decided that they want that bait just not the presentation that I was using,(a little too fast). So I said to my friend "I think I'm going to try a longer pause between pulls" and on the next cast I hooked into a nice smallmouth at 3lbs 09oz. That was all she wrote, we started catching after that. We caught somewhere in the high teens as fare as numbers. Not one of them were under 3lbs in fact I do believe the smallest one was 3lbs 03oz. The largest ones were at 3lbs 13ozs. We didn't break four pounds today but our five fish smallmouth bag was a little over 18lbs. The bonus was that we also caught four brown trout on the same lures that all measured 15 1/2", Guess what I'm having for dinner? It was a great day! Here is the proof: Tight lines to all! 2011 is looking good! No duplicates all seperate catches.

I'm on my way down to see tomorrow Dwight, I'll meet you at the landing around 0600!

Lol! its amazing what one Maine winter can do to a guy! :