MaineBassMan

I was watching MLF this morning and they were on Great pond which is several hours south of me. They did great and the show gave me the bass bug causing me to look back and realize Maine 2018 was awesome for my family. In my area we had a huge drought and water levels were way low. This changed what generally worked for us. My father and I found a pattern in September that held for us all the way to Mid October, and that was going deep. We ended up slaying bass, funny thing is mostly largemouth in depths of 20ft to 35 foot of water! Which isn't normal for us. We can usaully stay in 10 foot of water or less throughout the fishing season. Not last year, we caught them deep dropshoting, slow rolling swimbaits along the bottom, football jigs, heavy weighted Texas rigs and deep diving crankbaits. Thing is they were big too they averaged from 3 to 5 lbs!! And lots of them. The following pictures are from several trips starting mid September to mid October it held that long. We caught more then I'll post but these are some of the bigger ones. This is kinda what we saw, I always forgot to take a picture of fishfinder while they were active, we could see them hit the lures. FISH TIME

This all happened because of Loons, some bozo bookworm claims that loons are eating the lead weights that breakoff laying on the bottom. They probably found 1 freaking loon that probably died from something else but they happened to find a lead weight inside it. I don't know if you have been up here but every freaking lake has numerous loons on them. In all my years of fishing and I fish a LOT!!! I have never seen a dead loon anywhere. They actually were pushing to ban soft plastic baits too, because a study was done where they had a trout in a confined tank and dropped soft plastic baits into the tank, well with nothing else for the trout to feed on it ate the worms and died, go figure. They claimed that fish that ate the baits had stunted growth and some eventually died. There is a hatred towards bass and bass fisherman in this state because of the beloved cold water species (trout and Salmon) and they are constantly trying to ruin our fisheries.

Lakes still hard here, but I do believe we will have an early ice out.....I hope

Former Infantryman 11M, Kosovo campaign, War on Terrorism vet., Army.

I'll have to keep track this year, I have no clue. I know its a lot between 2 of us in the boat we have broken 100 fish a day, I know its in the high hundreds. A slow non tournament day is around 20 to 30 bass a really slow day might be around 15 fish a day but we usually break 30 a day to 50 especially in the spring I'd say we average 30 to 40 a day.

Once the ice goes out, which is looking early this year, I go a minimum of 10 times a month from March or April (depending on Ice out) until the end of October.

Been fishing Maine all my life never fished anywhere else, never found a reason to. Although next year around this time my father and I might make a Florida bass fishing trip. Will be my first time fishing outside of Maine.

Congrats!! Very nice Bag!

Picked up the new boat last Thursday and finally got to break her in on the 15th of April. My Father and Father in law went with me, my Father in law has never really been bass fishing and we showed him one heck of a time. He actually caught the first bass of the day on his 4th cast! Luck! We nailed them, we ended up catching 50- 60 bass. Most of them were high 2 pound bass but we caught at least 10 over 3 lbs our 5 biggest bass totaled a little over 18 pounds. Cranks and jerk baits were the ticket but we also caught a few on swim baits. The new boat with I-pilot, Humminbird Helix 10, 2 12' Talons and Minn Kota Ultera were awesome! Boat topped out at 62 mph. The stars of the day: More More More BTW we didn't take pictures of all of them takes up too much time!

More BTW we didn't take pictures of all of them takes up too much time!

Hi all Mainers! Picked up the new boat last Thursday and finally got to break her in on the 15th of April. My Father and Father in law went with me, my Father in law has never really been bass fishing and we showed him one heck of a time. He actually caught the first bass of the day on his 4th cast! Luck! We nailed them, we ended up catching 50- 60 bass. Most of them were high 2 pound bass but we caught at least 10 over 3 lbs our 5 biggest bass totaled a little over 18 pounds. Cranks and jerk baits were the ticket but we also caught a few on swim baits. The new boat with I-pilot, Humminbird Helix 10, 2 12' Talons and Minn Kota Ultera were awesome! Boat topped out at 62 mph. The stars of the day: More More

How is the ice Guys?

My favorite lake has a spot just like this too..

I guess the guys from Maine don't have a chance! lol I'm jealous of that smallmouth Dwight!!

Traditionally in my neck of Maine even if we have a normal hard Maine winter our Ice will go out between April 20 to the 26th. So it might be a traditional ice out here.

It's snowing again as I type this message grrrrrrrr suppose to be 8*F tonight that should really thaw the ice.....

Same boat here in Downeast Maine, East Machias area, couple of lake are getting dark in the middle. One lake had a little open water in the middle!! Won't be long.

Very nice!! congrats!! I've got the bass bug bite real bad!!!! Waiting to go pick up the new boat, already have all my tackle ordered just waiting on boat and open water. Keep posting them its getting me all pumped up for the 2017 season!! Tight lines!

Thank you keep me informed. Haven't made up my mind what to fish I'm thinking Cobbossecontee, Damariscotta or China lake. I fished Cobbossecontee about 6 years ago and had a great time. I've never fished Damariscotta or China so I'm thinking one of those two. We'll see? Might even pick something else, too many options lol.

I'm an ice out fisherman, My favorite time to go is within a week or two of ice out. Most of my big bass come this time of year, I've actually been on lakes when half of the lake is still iced over. My favorite spring lures are jigs, square bill cranks, 8-9ft cranks, chatter baits and suspending jerk baits. I find that the most important thing to do is idle around the lake and look for the warmest water temp on the lake. I also like locating pools in streams or rivers where the water goes from a shallow part and drops into 8ft to 12ft hole. I find bass stacked in these locations and I mean stacked!! My favorite spring lake will produce bass on just about every cast, no joke and I've had days where the average will run from upper 2lb to 4lb with the occasional hog. Always watch your lures on the retrieve, you will see chasers and sometime whole schools of smallmouth will follow, I call them "WOLF PACKS" lol hold your boat position and get ready for a feeding frenzy!!

High fellow Mainers!! Well that time of year is almost upon us!!! I'm going to be heading Down to Dover N.H. with my Father , we're from Downeast, East Machias, to pick our new bass boat!!!! and we were thinking that if we plan it right we might be able to test our boat out on some southern Maine lakes as long as the ice is out. So as the title ask....what are the Ice conditions like? Our lakes here are still frozen, although some of them are opening up in the middle.

That's awesome, Catch and release works. We had a bass that we called "ole crooked tail" he had a weird S-bend in his tail we caught him 4 times over the years. When we first caught him he was over 3 lbs the last time we caught him he was almost breaking 5 lbs. Haven't seen him in a few years, I wonder if he is still out there? That fished traveled too. The lake we caught him in runs into a river system and we caught him at one end of the lake and them the other end and the last time he was miles up the river.

SHHHHHHH!!!!! you guys must be lost there are no bass in Maine.

LOL, It was almost 60 degrees that day. We still have a little snow in the woods in places. We had six feet of snow around my house this winter, I could actually walk onto the roof of my house. I love this time of year. I like it more than June, after the ice goes out the bass in my neck of the woods are very hungry and sometimes you get a fish on every cast. I've got my third tournament of the season this Saturday. I hope my father and I can get into like I did with my wife and son. Its a different lake just a few miles away and it fishes about the same.

Congrats!! sounds like a good time. I don't like killing bass too, but you want to keep the owner happy so you can always go back