June 14th - 16th 2013: MAINE!

Spent the weekend up in Maine fishing in the Sebago area with my uncles and some of their high school friends on a fishing trip. Their idea of a fishing trip is they get to eat and drink whatever they want without their wives bitching at them. Fishing is a really distant 2nd.

I hit 5 ponds while we were there. In all ponds, I didn't see any fish on the beds. Most fish appeared to be spawned out and thin. Fishing was generally slow for Maine, but there were fish around. Best lures were a 4" Zoom Superfluke Jr (white) with 4/0 Owner Twistlock hook, 3" Shadalicious Swimbait with 4/0 weighted Owner Beast hook, 130 Whopper Plopper (fire tiger), 4.5" Yum MightBug (bama bug color) with Reaction Innovations BMF 5/0 hook and 1/8 oz screw-in tungsten weight, and a black/blue jig + trailer.

At 1 pond, I'm fishing with the fluke and a big fish comes out of the brush near the culvert and pounds the fluke...I swing + miss. Cast back in with the jig and she takes it! I set the hook like a champ, stick the fish good, and off we go. Wait......why does this bass have spots? A big trout took my jig! Good thing I had a 25 lb fluoro leader! Not line shy at all. There was another big one in there, but I didn't feel like re-rigging for trout and it wouldn't eat the jig.

Here's the brookie and some other pics...