2015 - Labor Day Weekend

The end of summer. The lake is quieter now that most  families have gone and the kids are back  in school.  We had beautiful weather and we had the lake mostly to ourselves. I did well this weekend using rubber crawfish. So I ended the season on a good note with this 3 lb bass below.

Esther with a 3lb Largemouth bass

2015 August

Fishing definitely slows down in the summer, especially when the days are so hot and the water is so warm it is like taking a bath.  The fish go deep and they are harder to find but we did manage to find a few bass using the wacky worms. 

Esther with one of the larger summer bass

When we are not fishing we find time for our other favorite activity -- what I call "swimmy chairs".  There is nothing more relaxing than sitting in one of these enjoying a cold beer!

Frank relaxing in the "Swimmy Chair"

2015 July 30 - Summer Fishing with my Brother and Nephew

We just had a wonderful summer weekend with my brother Ken and his son Steven.  They had not fished in years but caught on very quickly.  It started off slow with the first fish for my brother winning the smallest fish of the day award!

Ken with the smallest fish of the day

 Things picked up for him right away and here he is with just one of the larger bass he caught. Pretty good for a sunny and hot summer day.

Ken with one of the Large Mouth bass he caught

 His son, Steven led the field with the most fish and the biggest fish of the day. Here is his largest bass weighing in at 2 lbs. Great job!

Steven with his largest bass of the day.

2015 June 20 - Sixty Fish in One Day!

Fishing continues to be hot in Maine. We had company this weekend and our good friend Steve had his best bass fishing day ever. He couldn't believe how many fish he caught. First it was 20, then it was 30...40...50 and by the end of the day he had caught 60! Steve has been a trout fisherman for most of his life, but I think he might be a convert to bass fishing now.

Steve with just one of the 60 fish he caught

Steve caught a few pickerel as well

2015 June 18 - Big Pickerel

Frank with a 24" Pickerel

Frank is all smiles again as he continues to outfish me this season! On this day he caught this incredible 24" pickerel.

2015 June 11 - Good Start to Fishing Season

Frank is happy about this smallmouth bass!

We have been enjoying the spring fishing for almost a month now and fishing has really picked up.  Today we caught a lot of smallmouth bass on our favorite lake in Maine with Frank catching the biggest one of the day.

2015 June 7 - Maine

Frank with 4 lb largemouth bass

We hiked into a remote pond that we know in Maine and had a fantastic day of fishing. Frank caught the biggest bass with this one above at 4 lbs. but the action was pretty good all day as we used top water lures like a Rapala and Hula-popper.
This pond is a reclaimed trout pond but someone has reintroduced bass into this pond.  We called the Fish and Game authorities and they told us to keep all little bass we caught. Here I am with our stringer full of bass.

2014 Nov 16 - Florida Pier Fishing

We spent a few days fishing different piers in Florida.  Frank was catching everything --nothing too big, but at least he was catching a variety of fish.  I was only catching glimpses of wildlife, until our last day when I landed my biggest sea trout ever.

Dolphins

Frank with a Jack Crevalle

Close-up of Jack Crevalle

Pin fish

Esther with a Sea Trout

Close up of Sea Trout

Frank with a Puffer fish

White Ibis

2014 - Nov 14 - Florida Tarpon

Frank with his Tarpon

Close-up of Tarpon

Here we were on what may be our last trip to Florida fishing our favorite little pond and the fishing was terrible. We couldn't catch anything, even though we could see large fish swimming around during the day.   We tried every lure we brought, when finally Frank had a good hit and we couldn't believe our eyes when he pulled in this juvenile Tarpon! We shouldn't have been so surprised since over the years, we would see small silver fish jumping out of the water, but they would never bite at anything.  One year Frank saw a large silver fish, close to 2 ft long jump out of the water.  Still we never caught one.  This pond is close to Lemon Bay and right across the street from a golf course that went out of business and was turned into a nature trail park.  The conservators of the park discovered there are juvenile tarpon in all of the golf course ponds.  They are born in these small ponds and stay there for a couple of years before returning to the sea.  So that explains what the silver fish are that we had seen for years.