MaineBassMan

Thats cool, I fished a tournament on Three Mile Lake on the 26th of june. I was fishing an X-caliber type Rtrap and I think I lost My biggest bass ever and I was in a tournament when it happened ! It hurt so much. I even had a fishing club member next to me when I hooked it and he saw the whole thing and heard my BLANK BLANK spurts of poor english vocab. I did my best and I couldn't beat it got it right next to the boat and it dove for the bottom wrapped around a rock and broke my line ! I have never had a fish kick my butt like that fish did! I caught a lot of nice fish on that lure that day.

Very nice!! Looks like ICU812 needs to start paying attention to what your are doing! LOL

Great looking Fish! so you've been fishing with ICU812? Did he take notes after you landed it ? So are you another Mainiac or were you on vacation?

Great picture, glad you are having fun with your son. The first run is great because the imagination runs wild with what might get caught!

It seems this year in Maine if you plan on fishing be prepared to get rained on! I can't remember a rainier season. I went fishing two days ago the weather man said it was suppose to be great and we had a down poor! I was wearing warm weather clothes and got soaked! Looks like you had fun!

I'm still out there catching the same quality fish. Just not posting them all up, it starts to get redundant!

Very nice smallmouth!! I've caught a bunch this year between 3-4 but nothing over 4. I think largemouth have ruined me because it seems that I'm out of touch with the bigger smallies.

I plan on camping up there for a week in October after my clubs tournament season is over. It was a beautiful lake full of great looking smallmouth.

I'm glad that you released that monster Maine smallie! It takes a long time for our bass to get to that size! That was an old smallmouth. If I ever catch one that size I will have a replica mount made and I will release the bass. The Schoodic lake that my camp is on is located in Cherryfield, unfortunately it is a salmon lake and the smallmouth on average are only between 10-12 inches so I don't even bother fishing for them.

Holly Cow man! Those things are huge! What the heck are you all feeding those things? They are a beautiful fish and yes that is one of the best fish pictures, the colors are amazing.

Funny my family owns a camp on schoodic lake but its not the same one. No I haven't fished there but that doesn't mean that you won't see me there some day. Too many lakes in Maine and not enough time. 7lbs smallie!! Thats amazing! 1 pound and an ounce and you would have had the new state record. I love smallmouth fishing but for some reason I can't break that five pound barrier! I've had a couple on that would have broken that barrier but they wouldn't stop jumping. I've caught a bunch of 4 1/2 pounders but thats it!!

Good job. So does this mean that you have your boat all rigged up? The spawn is pretty much over so the smallies should be moving deeper.

Just amazing!

Thanks for the kind comments. It wasn't easy getting him in and out of the boat but it was worth it. Just waiting for the next day of good weather.

What a pig! that almost beats the Maine state records! You guys are blessed with some big ole largies!

Wow! those are something great looking largies! Must of been fun, I love it when the rod almost jumps out of your hand!

Well a few days ago one of the most important men in my life asked me if I would take him fishing. I was shocked because his health hasn't been the greatest for a few years, but I was more than ready, excited to take him out. If it wasn't for my Grandfather I would have probably never got into the great sport of Bass fishing. He introduced my father and then my Father introduced me to it. I remember being a young kid, teenager and one year after I got out of the service spending numerous hours on the water with my father and Grandfather. I always loved hearing his old fishing stories from the mid 50's and on. In fact one of the main reason my Grandfather took the family and moved from New Jersey to Maine was because of the outstanding bass fishing. My Grandfather hasn't fished since 2003 and I never believed that I would ever get the chance to fish with him again! Well I got that chance and it was awesome! We didn't catch any monsters and we only caught about a dozen bass that day but it was my best day on the water in years. I love that man and I cherish every moment I get with him. I took him to his favorite lake and it was just he and I and the whole lake to ourselves. It brought back many memories for him and he said that he never thought he would see that lake again and he said that he was very happy that I took him. The best part was the next day when he told me that he never got sore from the day of fishing and that he would like to go again soon. I told him you just let me know when your ready! Just wish that I took more pictures!! He isn't that photogenic, he said "what do you think I'm going to die soon or something?" He's a jokester. THE KID!! The following day I went solo on one of my other favorite lakes and had a great mixed bag day! The jig and rage craw was the ticket!

WTG! your doing pretty darn good fishing from the shore.

Nice fish! I'd be happy with a bunch of two pounders with a nice four pounder in the mix.

Great looking 2011 PB! If I were you I would have texas rigged that snake and gone for the new 2011 PB!

LoL, yes I had sun block on. Trying to get rid of that farmers tan.

Cool picture! I've been doing good with shallow running cranks this year.

The secret is out! lol

My Father and I went on another little road trip in search of some new fishing waters. We traveled two hours north of us to this 17,250 acre body of water that is suppose to have some excellent smallmouth fishing. We left around 0500 and arrived at the lake at around 0715. Finding the lake was a little difficult because the dirt road that takes you to the landing was not labeled. The road looked like a goat path , almost didn't go down it. We get to the landing and you can tell that is was not made for bass boats, more like for Grand lakers. We manage to launch the boat and immediately we are over whelmed by the beauty of this lake. 17,250 acres and what little bit of it that we fished we never saw one camp, house nothing! It was just lake surrounded by God's country. The fishing was great we were catching nice fat smallmouth right from the get go! Almost every cast produced a smallie. The water was crystal clear, could see bottom 10 feet down and it only looked like it was 4 ft down. The lake had big boulders all over the place with submerged tree stumps and logs dotted throughout it. I saw my biggest smallmouth ever swimming under the boat, safely a 5+ pound bass. Every bass that we caught as we fought them to the boat would be spitting up tons of crawdads and bait fish even the dinks had big Ole bellies on them! They were very active as we would see one rise or swimming along the bottom and we cast at them and they would come flying for the bait from twenty feet away. The hot baits were tubes and cranks. By the the end of the day we boated at least 60 fish and 95% of those were from 2 1/2 to 3 pounds. We had bigger ones than that but they spent more time out of the water then in it! So a lot of hooks were thrown. We will be going to this lake again but next time we are bringing a tent so we can really break this one down. We never went more then a mile from the landing and we spent four hours in a hundred yard stretch so we didn't even scratch the surface of this one. These are the only pictures that we took because we were too busy catching!