MikeOGNR Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 1 hour ago, Mainebass1984 said: The rod I fish it on is 7'6". Tosses that beast a mile. You should see the 8 " hudd fly. I'm also using 50 lb power pro. You'll get a big bas son it for sure if you put your time in. I haven't got a 7 on it yet but I did get the 6-14 and saw my buddy lose a 7.5 +/- lber on one at the boat. Another friend of mine who is 100 % swimbaits, 100 % of the time gave me an interesting tip... Fish the hudd like a jig. Its an interesting concept and the results will surprise you. Have you tried fishing a hudd at night ?? Like dragging it or hopping it? Interesting Quote
MikeOGNR Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 3 hours ago, Mainebass1984 said: The rod I fish it on is 7'6". Tosses that beast a mile. You should see the 8 " hudd fly. I'm also using 50 lb power pro. You'll get a big bas son it for sure if you put your time in. I haven't got a 7 on it yet but I did get the 6-14 and saw my buddy lose a 7.5 +/- lber on one at the boat. Another friend of mine who is 100 % swimbaits, 100 % of the time gave me an interesting tip... Fish the hudd like a jig. Its an interesting concept and the results will surprise you. Have you tried fishing a hudd at night ?? I'm actually going night fishing Friday night on a couple of secret ponds up near my camp . I'm excited too do it I watched a ton of videos on guys doing it gonna try it hopefully get on a hog Quote
Mainebass1984 Posted April 27, 2017 Author Posted April 27, 2017 Looks like I will have a 3 day fishing weekend. Dawn until dusk each day. Hopefully find a few lunkers and put my friend on some big bass as well. I am curious to see if the pattern I found will hold up. Anyone else getting out this weekend in Maine ?? Quote
Smokinal Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Mainebass1984 said: Looks like I will have a 3 day fishing weekend. Dawn until dusk each day. Hopefully find a few lunkers and put my friend on some big bass as well. I am curious to see if the pattern I found will hold up. Anyone else getting out this weekend in Maine ?? Not me; I work Saturday and my son's last college double header is Sunday so I want to catch that. Ive got my name all over next Sunday though! Quote
MainelyBASS Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 This weekend is my second tournament of the season. We are fishing Great Pond in Belgrade. Ive never fished it before, know nothing about it, so im sure I will get my rear-end handed to me, but it will be fun. Quote
Smokinal Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 36 minutes ago, MainelyBASS said: This weekend is my second tournament of the season. We are fishing Great Pond in Belgrade. Ive never fished it before, know nothing about it, so im sure I will get my rear-end handed to me, but it will be fun. I know a couple guys fishing it too. Give us a report! Quote
WestBranch Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 6 hours ago, Mainebass1984 said: Looks like I will have a 3 day fishing weekend. Dawn until dusk each day. Hopefully find a few lunkers and put my friend on some big bass as well. I am curious to see if the pattern I found will hold up. Anyone else getting out this weekend in Maine ?? I'm retired now, so my week is 6 Saturdays followed by a Sunday. We moved upta camp about 2 weeks ago for the summer, so its fish, eat, sleep, repeat. Well there's a couple of chores thrown in the mix, but I try to keep those to a minimum. Quote
MainelyBass88 Posted May 1, 2017 Posted May 1, 2017 Ice went out around me last week, so I was finally able wet a line. Was only able to shore fish for about an hour on Saturday, but managed to catch two. First was 1.5lbs on a wacky rig, second was a 6lber on a chatterbait, both in about 2-3 fow. Decent start to the season, can't wait to get back out! 2 Quote
MainelyBASS Posted May 2, 2017 Posted May 2, 2017 On 4/27/2017 at 10:33 AM, Smokinal said: I know a couple guys fishing it too. Give us a report! Well, it was brutal for us. Lost 8lbs of fish at the net, and had one bend a silver buddy completely in half and come off 10ft away from the boat. Finished with 11.4lbs for 5 fish and a 47th place out of 65. The fishing was on fire to start the day. Lost that big one on the second cast, tied on a new silver buddy and caught a 3.9 smallmouth, 5 minutes later another 3.8 smallmouth. From that point on, the sun broke out from behind the clouds and only managed to put 2 more fish in the livewell. Brutal day. Awesome lake! 23.9 pounds for 7 fish was the winning total. That bag had a 5+lb largemouth and 6 big smallmouth. 3 Quote
Mainebass1984 Posted May 3, 2017 Author Posted May 3, 2017 This past weekend the fishing was consistent but far from excellent. Sadly my friend I did not get any picture worthy fish. We found fish near areas where they will be spawning. Most of our fish came from 4-8 ft of water. My weapon of choice was a jig. I found water temperatures varied quite a bit from spot to spot. The warmest I found was just touching 60 degrees. The cold front that pushed through on sunday threw the fish that I was on into semi-lock jaw. We ended the weekend with a lot of 3 lbers, 9 4s and few fish bigger then that. Hopefully will get out there again soon. Still looking for that 7 pound plus bite. 1 Quote
WestBranch Posted May 5, 2017 Posted May 5, 2017 DIF&W announced they've stocked waters with10,000 fish in the last couple of weeks. Here's the where and when http://www.maine.gov/ifw/fishing/reports/stocking/stocking.htm 1 Quote
Mainebass1984 Posted May 5, 2017 Author Posted May 5, 2017 Anyone getting out on the water this weekend ? I think I will be able to get 2 days in. Its going to be a bit cold and rainy but you cant catch them if you don't go ! 1 Quote
BassB8Caster Posted May 7, 2017 Posted May 7, 2017 I was finally able to get out and do some fishing today. I only fished from about 10 to 230. Ive been very excited to fish this particular lake as it sets up very well for the fish to set up prespawn in a shallow flat on the north end. There are 2 small rivers that flow into the lake on the north end. I have fished here in the summer and the North end was full of grass, weeds, lilies etc. And I did very well last summer with Texas rigged soft plastics. My plan was to start where the depths go from 20-25' up to 8 to 12 (the beginning of the flat). I was expecting the fish to start staging anywhere here and shallower. I intended to search with jerkbaits, spinners, chatterbait, lipless cranks etc until I found them, then slow down with jigs, etc. Started out very slow. Didn't help there was a steady 20-25 mph southern wind. There has also been a lot of rain lately so the lake was high and stained. So I spent some time seeing how shallow they might be. Didn't find much real shallow. After a while I caught a decent pickerel in 2.5 -3 fow on a red craw rat l trap. Then after a little while later I caught my first largemouth. A 4lber on a red/blk 3/8 strike king spinner in about 6 fow. Then I had a first in my bass fishing days. I caught a chunky 13" brook trout on the red craw rat I trap. I've never caught a trout on my bass lures before. It was kinda cool. Next I tied on a zman chatter trick stick. I bought this cheap thinking it would work good. Looks like a rainbow trout with the blade. It doesn't move a ton. Kinda shimmies/ shakes (not wobble like a crank or paddle tail). Expectations were low due to the rather poor reviews online. Figured I would try it anyway. Glad I did! It was the lure of the day! I caught a 3.3, 3.75, 3 and 2.5 on it in a rather short time. All these fish were very healthy chunky fish. The 4lber on the spinner was 19" long. All the fish looked like they had a belly full of eggs or food. These were all caught in 4-8 fow. What I like about the trickstick is it vibrates with very little movement. So I can swim it very slowly while it is still vibrating. It is a very flashy loud bait. At this point I about had all the wind i could take and it was time to paddle about a mile back into the 20mph wind. All in all, a good day fishing for my first of 2017. I believe there are bigger fish in here. Will definitely fish this lake more this year. Pics below of the trickstick and trout. Didn't get any pics of the bass. 1 Quote
Smokinal Posted May 7, 2017 Posted May 7, 2017 ^^^Very nice B8Caster. Ya, it's pretty cool catching good trout by accident while bass fishing. I usually catch 1-2 in the spring and 1-2 in the fall; when we start fishing shallow with jerkbaits. In fact, this year, on my first day out, I had a really nice brookie right beside the boat. It freaked out, did a ton of alligator rolls and got off; looked to be in the 20-22" range. Glad to hear you had a good first day! 1 Quote
BassB8Caster Posted May 7, 2017 Posted May 7, 2017 Wow. that's a big brook trout. I wasn't sure at first what he was. I caught him like 6 feet off the kayak. He went crazy when I got him to the surface. All I could see was flashy silver. Thought it may have been a chub/sucker (I caught a good sized one last year in that lake). Last thing I thought it would be was a trout. Especially on a red lipless crank. I was tempted to take him home and grill him up. Decided to release him. Quote
MikeOGNR Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 Went out this weekend in search of some big bass on a trout pond. Ended up fishing awhile didn't manage any bass, but the trout were on fire limited out in about 30 minutes all Brookies. I know there's big bass in here due to seeing a friends pictures. All in all good Sunday 2 Quote
MainelyBASS Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 Fished Little Ossipee on Sunday. Fishing was insanely consistent. Lots of males moved up shallow cruising the spawning areas. High water gave them lots of new territory to search for best spawning spots available. Brought 5 rods in my friends boat, but only used 1 all day, never picked up the others. 1/2 oz Black and Blue Project Z Chatterbait with a Rage Menace Grub trailer. I rigged the bait on a rod with 50lb braid for a few reasons. One reason was I planned on fishing around laydowns, heavy grass, and other clusters of structure so I wanted the appropriate line for the situation. The other reason for 50lb braid was the ability to keep the lure above the grass and vegitation that i was fishing around. Even though the water was up a few feet, we were fishing the "new" 12-24 inches of lake water and sinking line, or smaller braid wouldn't have allowed me to retrieve the bait without snagging grass each time. We never landed anything over 4.5 but we did catch a healthy number of 1.5-3lb fish with a few 4's mixed in. Quote
Mainebass1984 Posted May 9, 2017 Author Posted May 9, 2017 This past weekend the bass fishing was excellent. I had one of my more memorable days for numbers of quality fish. Saturday I was in my winter gear in the rain but the fishing was excellent. I had tried a few spots a couple weeks ago and they just weren't there yet. I launched the boat and found the water had cooled a bit to 53 degrees. The jig was the lure of the day. I was fishing an area with a clay shoreline. This time of year crawfish come out of there burrows and stack up in this area. Most of the fish had crawfish antennae sticking out of there gullet. A 1/2 oz jig with a rage craw trailer was the lure of the day. In 11 hours I landed 26 largemouth, 10 chain pickerel and 1 smallmouth. Of the 26 largemouth 3 were in the 5 lb range, 5-7,5-3 amd 5-1. The average size was excellent with a 5 4s, 4-12, 4-5, 4-3,4-0 and 4-0. Lots of 3s caught as well 3-11, 3-10, 3-9, 3-4, 3-3, 3-1, 3-3, 3-3, 3-12 and 3-0. A couple of the fish that weren't 3 lbs weighed in at 2-15. Fished were stacked in my spots and they were crushing my jig. A total of 18 bass over 3 lbs. It was surreal kind of day. Sunday the wind blew very strong out of the south 15-20 mph with gusts approaching 30 mph. I decided to fish a small cove that was protected out of the south wind at a local lake. I landed 11 largemouth, 4 were over 3 lbs, 3-9, 3-8, 3-4, and 3-0. With the wind I was happy just to catch fish. The water was 53 degrees there as well. I fished noon until 5. The lure of the day was the jig again. It was an excellent weekend of fishing, much needed after a long winter. It feels great to be on the water and hear the spring peepers again. 3 Quote
Smokinal Posted May 9, 2017 Posted May 9, 2017 ^^^Wow, you had a banner day for sure. I went out Sunday and, like you, had some rippin winds straight out of the south up the lake. I had 52 degree water. I'm still fishing this early pattern in a shallow cove with a jerkbait and the bite was still on for sure. I caught 44 bass and about 10-15 huge pie-plate crappie; all in about 5 hrs. It was absolutely stupid how good the bite was. Nothing for size but I like having a numbers day like that. All were 1.5-2.5 lbs. Tried to load some pics but Photobucket has been having problems for a while now. Anyone use anybody else for photo storing and sharing? 1 Quote
RMcDuffee726 Posted May 9, 2017 Posted May 9, 2017 ^^^Wow, you had a banner day for sure. I went out Sunday and, like you, had some rippin winds straight out of the south up the lake. I had 52 degree water. I'm still fishing this early pattern in a shallow cove with a jerkbait and the bite was still on for sure. I caught 44 bass and about 10-15 huge pie-plate crappie; all in about 5 hrs. It was absolutely stupid how good the bite was. Nothing for size but I like having a numbers day like that. All were 1.5-2.5 lbs. Tried to load some pics but Photobucket has been having problems for a while now. Anyone use anybody else for photo storing and sharing? Honesty I would suggest locally storing the photos on your computer, and just uploading from there. I see a lot of people on here using photo bucket. From personal experience, local computer storage is much easier and cleaner to upload on to BR. Quote
Smokinal Posted May 9, 2017 Posted May 9, 2017 Honesty I would suggest locally storing the photos on your computer, and just uploading from there. I see a lot of people on here using photo bucket. From personal experience, local computer storage is much easier and cleaner to upload on to BR. I didn't know you could upload right from my system; thought you had to save to a site then share from there. Could you give this old dog some directions on how to put pics into threads right from my tower? Quote
WestBranch Posted May 9, 2017 Posted May 9, 2017 When you type a reply. Right underneath will be a paperclip with click to choose file. Quote
Smokinal Posted May 10, 2017 Posted May 10, 2017 When you type a reply. Right underneath will be a paperclip with click to choose file. Well then lets give this a shot! Here's (if I do this right) some pics of a couple I got last Sunday. 1 pie plate crappie and an average sized smallie: 1 Quote
jbmaine Posted May 20, 2017 Posted May 20, 2017 Finally got out today. Found the water temp at 58 degrees. Could not get a LM bite, but the smallies were more willing. Nothing big( 2lb 8oz was the largest) but a lot of fun. Let the season begin!!!!!!! Here's a couple of pics Thanks for looking Jim 2 Quote
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