James Engle

Nice! I’ll give them a shout . Thanks for the info ??

I do the same thing. Always have an excuse to fall back on soakin a senko around thick cover . I fish around the house mostly , arrowhead and smaller places around southern Maine. I’ve always fished out of a kayak until last week . Now that I have a nice boat I’m looking forward to fishing some bigger water and expanding my skills offshore. The handful of times I’ve got into em good out on deep structure have been on a smallmouth bite @ places like winni, great pond, andro lake, north pond. Places I could find the offshore stuff pretty easily. And knowin that’s how they catch em there always helps my confidence sticking it out till I put my thumb down on em. Arrowheads the hardest for me , it’s got some of the best shallow water cover / forage you can dream up. I get worn out quick fishin all the junk. lately been enjoying fishing very slow, searching for unicorns in the tight channel .

Looking for a local tech or shop to get me squared away with my 2000 carbureted Johnson outboard on my 2001 tr-186. I just bought the boat last week, and she’s practically mint for her age. Purchased off the original owner, and he babied the thing pleasure fishing . If anyone has any recommendations for a shop, I’d greatly appreciate it! I’m out of Lake Arrowhead. Called southern Maine marine, Portland yacht service, both a month + out on labor. White rock threw me a ballpark few hundred bucks to go thru all the carbs and tune her up nice. Seemed fair, only a week out . Reviews seem great too. I’ve asked around a bit & figure my last stop be here. Thanks !

We moved a year and a half ago into the lake arrowhead community in Limerick, Maine . It’s a wonderful place to live, we love it. The association manages 13 private beaches around the lake which are great for carry in access. I do all my fishing out of an old town predator PDL. There are tons of ponds and lakes in this area, I’m sure if you looked around you could find a great place for your dream cabin. There is actually an island on lake arrowhead for sale , and also I’m not sure if it’s still listed but there is a parcel on another one of the islands that already has concrete piers in place to be built on. let me know if you need somebody to build ?

I’m still learning a lot going into my 3rd season fishing competitively , so I’m no expert but this is what’s been working for me. Up in southern Maine, Suspending jerkbaits , shallow and deep. If they aren’t biting I’ll soak it , like get it in strike zone and smoke a cigarette and snap it . Brutally slow is sometimes the most effective. I look for spots holding timber against steep bank lines , or ditches with vegation on both sides / not a lot of big rocks or anything else where I’m fishing so I stick to wood and vegetation, or a cut with gravel . I usually start seeing fish in shallow weedy areas when the water gets up over 45 and the suns out, sunny side of the bank and some wood , finding slick water in coves on a windy day or those spots where the grass is still green & figuring out where the warmest areas closest to their winter spots. I’ve been doing well with ecopro tungsten swingshads on owner screw lock size 4/0 w/ 3/32oz belly hook. Haven’t been able to get on a bladed jig bite , lipless or spinner baits yet but those are coming out tomorrow. Also got a few cranking shallow a couple weeks ago. For me, when the water is low 40’s - finding the fish isn’t too hard, it’s gettin em to bite where I struggle. Any other time of the year I can usually pick em off with a dropshot and some power bait or a wacky rigged senko . But lately I won’t even get a sniff and if I drop it directly on em they’ll spook. Reactionary baits that I can let dwell in a strike zone are where i have most confidence .

You have any luck yet? I’ve been seein homies crushing it this weekend in NY, Adirondack crew, fish all had good guts on em . I’m up in Southern Maine, it’s been a tough start to my season. I got out on open water March 10 this year, over a month sooner than ice out 2019. mild winter and a streak of abnormally warm days followed by rain late feb into March. But the weather turned back around for a few weeks . Most of March was a bust for my skills. I’ve had a few flurries jerkin over the last 2 weeks but I’ve had to fish that thing like a wacky rigged senko to get bit. Friend of mine been wearin em out with silver buddies . don’t own any but maybe that woulda been the ticket , I was on top of bass stacked out deep a handful of times in March and couldn’t get a sniff with dropshot, ned or jig. Timing the bite window right might’ve helped me out better too. I’m gonna wipe the slate and get after em tomorrow. Finally got the peepers chirping at night and suppose to be upper 50’s next 2 days. I know they’re itching it get moving because I’ve seen some bigs glued to rocks baskin in the sun last week , reckon they’ll be cruising up and around tryin to get fat tomorrow

bonas were a big hit last year , seems like a lot of people got on em. That being said, there was/is a lot of companies making mods . Ive been out with Ss127 guys in wind and they don’t last long paddling those boats. One objective bass fishing makes some nice motor mounts for them. Bonafide , native , and liquid logic merged recently, so perhaps you will see bonas incorporating propel drives soon

I’ve got a pair of old town predator PDL’s. Awesome awesome boats. My previous kayak was a native slayer 10, it was much slower, less stable, cheaper quality, and my customer service experience from the remaining dealers closest to me was poor. I went to old town and haven’t looked back. I will say the kaku voodoo has always caught my eye and I would love one of those one day. The nucanoe lineup is a similar style as the voodoo so you might like them as well.

thats awesome, welcome to the kayak fishin world. My kit is similar to a co-anglers - a grip of rods and a backpack. You’ll have a better idea of what mods would improve your rig after some time on the water. I’ve met a lot of really great people around the country with KBF.

No doubt man!!!

I’ll be down there coming from Maine. Really excited to fish guntersville. We got a heavy crew rolling down this year. I’m flying down solo... hopefully like 2 weeks before the event. We rented a house for like 10 of us up in Langston for the week of the event . I fished Caddo last year it was busy but you could get away from the crowd easily .

More exposure for the sport, more opportunities.... Hope to start seeing a page or 2 in bass times every month, with kayak results and featured anglers. KBF is a family, they’re here to stay. I don’t know the stats, but up in the northeast a lot of the bigger kayak clubs are kbf partner trails. Seems the clubs making moves on local and regional levels are all part of a pretty tight network. And big things happening next year . 2021 kbf national championship is back on Caddo... and I mean they just had 1/2 the kayak population there last March and also have their own region on the trail series . Texas sounds nice right now! icing up here in Maine ?

shallow water !! Last Saturday we fished the first of the year Maine Yak Anglers trail event , on square pond. I found smallies on rocky points with sharp drops in the morning , by 11am there were big largemouth lurking around sandy beach spots close to soft bottom and deep water. The north end of that pond was stacked with big fish. After the tourney I went to a little spot I call ‘breeding grounds’ I fished fast around the main lake channel points with timber, and did well pumping a craw colored red eye shad under or as close to wood as possible. The wind died down at around 7pm, and the cold water stopped pushing into the back coves. I got on a great frog bite, big bass were tucked way way back in thick grassy swamp areas 1-2’ of water. So far this week, I have been seeing more bass cruising the shallow flats around points and inside coves , doing well with spinnerbaits, red eye shad, and when it gets dark throwing a frog out and just letting it sit on top - almost like dead sticking a senko with a frog...? I dunno but it’s workin ! I have seen some absolute tanks cruising around at night. I finally had one giant take my top toad last night and I failed to set the hook on er’ ?

Amazing ! Can’t beat it.

Dude! I was scratching my head trying to figure out who. I actually tried getting in touch with you last summer , Wayne Berry was telling me you were gettin into some bass. yeah I always tell people that it’s not only learning techniques on how to find and trick the fish, it’s the time management to get on the water . Honestly though if I invested as much effort into building a business as I used to rather than working to become the angler I’m reaching to be... maybe I’m doing things backwards at the moment but I’m hooked and have been scraping by. Definitely should link up again. 207-321-8400 shoot me a text sometime , keep up the hard work I’m sure you’re crushin it like always!