jbmaine

Here is my go to bait. I always have one tied on and it almost always gets bit. Strike king KVD swimm'n caffeine shad paddle tail, 4" in KVD magic color, on a Owner twistlock 1/4 oz. weighted hook. This is pretty weedless so toss it in weeds, toss it in clear water, anywhere. Fish it fast, slow, bounce it off the bottom, I have not found a wrong way to fish it. For me it catches LM,SM, pickerel, perch, pretty much anything in the water. I caught two LM on two casts with it yesterday, bouncing it off the bottom in about 10ft. of water.

Total weight-- around 2500 lb.

This is the second year towing our Lund Fury XL with our ford Edge. I would not want to tow anything bigger with the Edge, or have a vehicle any smaller to tow the Lund.

I found the same thing. Spot lock seems to work best if it's holding position against " something", either wind or current. In calm conditions it's almost like it's fighting itself to hold position, and sometimes it will give up and shut off.

We had a camp on Mousam lake in Maine when I was a kid. Always had the fishing bug. Started with worms, then dare devil spoons, inline spinners, jitter bugs, and so on. Here's a picture of me and my dad around 1956. Even with a toy rod,reel, I tried to catch something.

Well it's happened twice now this summer, on two different lakes. Fishing deep ( 20+ ft. ) on known spots for smallies and caught LM instead. A strange year indeed.

I was 14, still remember it like yesterday.

Forgive my for asking, but how many times did you "accidently hit it" before it cracked??

Need to pan the camera up. Can't see the big grin on your face?

Had some visitors this afternoon, kinda cool. Yesterday she shows up to trim my weeds. She must of liked them because today she's back, with her kids of course the kids get hungry, what's a momma to do seems everyone had a nice visit, then off they go.

Hi all, As others have said, this is a strange year. A couple of days ago my wife and I made a trip to one of the local lakes. This is a 1600 acre lake, mostly deep and rocky, good SM water. But there are off shoots ( we call them basins) that hold good LM, pickerel. Our plan was to go after LM early, then switch to SM as the morning went on. We got on the water early and headed to what we call the upper basin. This is off the main lake, several acres of shallow coves 2-6 ft deep, covered in weeds, lilly pads, bull rushes, with a main channel 8-12 ft. deep going thru it. Our first surprise was hardly any weeds. I've never seen this on the beginning of July. We fish another lake 8 miles south of this that is covered in weeds, lilly pads, very strange. Our second surprise was no fish. We spent over an hour fishing tight to shore, across the coves, the channel, everywhere we could think of. No bass was not too unexpected, but we never even got a pickerel. This place is full of pickerel, how do you not catch pickerel? Then we headed out to the main lake and fished a submerged hump, rock pile, for SM. This area has done well for us in the past. It is about 100 yds. in dia. big rocks ( some the size of cars) just under the surface dropping to 20+ ft. Well the SM weren't playing along, but I finally hooked a decent fish on a ned rig. Could tell right away it didn't fight like a SM and as I got it to the surface it turned out to be a LM, short but fat, just under 3 lbs. Have no idea what it was doing on the bottom 20 feet down in SM waters far from shore but guess I won't complain. As I said, strange year. This is what we call the upper basin, looks like. This is the LM, caught in the last place I thought a LM would be.

Jitterbug was catching bass for me 50+ years ago and still works now.

Been a very strange year so far in southern Maine. Catching fish, but mostly not where they usually are this time of year.

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This wasn't strange or weird but sure was a once in a life time thing that happened to me. Some years ago I was up in northern Maine flyfishing for trout. Early one morning I was fishing out of my canoe on a wilderness trout pond. The water was dead calm and the mist was heavy on the water. I heard a noise on the shore, it sounded like something got in the water and started towards me ( I couldn't see it, mist was too thick). I was thinking beaver, and figured I'd hear a tail slap when he saw me. So I'm waiting and watching, and out of the mist, about 20ft. away , comes a huge bull moose swimming right at me. I just froze, didn't know what to do. He saw me and changed course just enough to miss me. I don't know why I did it, but as he swam past me, His big eye staring at me, I moved my hand just enough so I could touch his antlers as he went by. Still think about that moment from time to time. Jim

exact same here. Great minds think alike!

We have a very healthy population here. The only thing that made this note worthy was I took this pic. from inside my house. I've had turkey's tapping at their reflection on my sliding glass door.

Todays visitor to my back yard.

Hard to believe it's been 75 years and the greatest generation is almost gone, my dad included, US Navy, he never talked about it. A very profound thank you to all who have served. We are forever grateful.

I've been fishing since , well, as long as I can remember. My family have been fishing for many generations, in one way or another. Per the family history, my relatives lived on the Isles of Shoals in NH at one time as commercial fisherman. My grandmother told me the story of how she and my grandfather were out hornpouting one night. On the way in they ran up on a rock pile and got stuck. They had to wait for daylight and help, and she figures that was the night my mom was conceived. Not a bad way to pass the time I guess? Here's a couple of pics. The first one is my great uncle Rosco, at Rye harbor NH, with a shark he caught. The second is me and my dad out on the lake, around 1955. Even with a toy fish pole I had the bug.

My go to is the Strike King swimm'n caffeine shad in KVD magic color on a screw lock swim bait hook, weighted or un weighted. Fish it fast, fish it slow, bounce it over the bottom, I have yet to find a way that doesn't work.

We hired separate inspectors for everything and it's a good thing we did. Leach field, roof , foundation, all had problems.

Thanks, we hired inspectors with a good rep. But my question is, once issues are found, doesn't the realtor have a reasonability to mention these when selling a house?

Hi all, My wife and I are in the market for a house. We recently found one that looked good, and went to see it. I saw some things that looked suspect, but as the market is hot right now, we put a bid in, subject to a through home inspection. Our bid was accepted and a home inspection followed. Unfortunately the inspection uncovered numerous major issues and we opted out of the contract. No harm, no foul on our end, however a couple of days later we saw this house was back on the market, same price, no mention of any of the issues we found. I Know the listing agent and our agent know of these issues,( they were part of the discussion when we opted out). So is this ethical? I hope we don't find a house with issues that no one told us about. Jim