2021 June 9 - Maine Weekend

We had a few wonderful days in Maine. Weather is warmer and quite pleasant now. Fishing was spotty. June 9th was good and other days were just so so.

Esther with a nice largemouth bass 

We caught mainly largemouth bass this trip. A few pickerel, and a couple of small yellow perch.

Esther with possibly the smallest perch she has ever caught!

2020 Aug 22-23 - Summer Fishing

 I think the fishing has been pretty good even in the summer. We have seen more people at their camps since no one has to go to work anymore.  Not a lot of fisherman though, which works for me!

We tried a different larger lake today.  But unfortunately we almost got skunked! We were headed in when Frank got a vigorous take. A strong white perch. We do not catch these that often, we believe they like fresh worms which we do not use. At least he caught something!

Frank with his catch of the day.  No more COVID beard!

When I am not catching fish, I really enjoy being outdoors and seeing wildlife. Today we were lucky to see an Eagle land high in a tree near us.  I think the eagle was eyeing Frank's catch.

2016 May 30 - White Perch

Esther with a large White Perch

We are up in Maine for Memorial Day weekend and went fishing on one of our favorite ponds. I caught this nice white perch which is unusual for this particular pond.  I was fishing with a spinner and I think the white perch typically go for real worms instead.

2012 July 26 -Trolling

As it gets warmer it gets harder to catch fish.  But I am having luck by trolling a rapala and here are a couple of the fish I have caught that way.

Esther with a good sized perch

Esther with a pickerel

2012 June 30 - Maine

The fishing had slowed down in the second half of June so we decided to go out fishing in the morning instead of late afternoon. It was a perfectly calm morning and we got out fishing by 8 a.m.  As we made our way to our fishing spot, we passed a group of ducks still sleeping on the rocks.

Female Mallard ducks sleeping

We were catching a few fish but nothing too noteworthy until we got to the backside of an island.  I was casting to lillypads and on one cast I got a strike immediately and as I reeled my line in, it felt very odd to me.  I couldn't believe my eyes when I pulled my rapala out of the water - I had caught 2 perch on the same lure with that cast, one on each  hook!

 

Esther with a double hook-up!

A short while later I saw a fish jump at a dragon fly near a lily pad, so I of course cast right to that spot.  The fish attacked the rapala and I caught a nice smallmouth bass.  But I was surprised to see, on the same cast, my rapala had also hooked a dragon fly!
I guess that is what I like about fishing, you never know what is going to happen.

I caught a smallmouth bass and a dragon fly on the same cast.

2012 June - Maine Perch

Frank with a 12" 3/4 lb yellow perch

Out favorite lake has a lot of perch and they can be fun to catch.  There is one cove we have named "Perch Cove" because we have found on many occassions you can catch a perch on every cast.  We measured a couple of the larger ones and we both had caught a 12" 3/4 lb perch.

2006 May - Great Pond

We headed back to Bear Spring Camps this spring.  We love fishing on Great Pond in the spring.  This trip we caught the nice fish below.

Esther with a white perch

Frank with a nice smallmouth

1989 August - Maine

We went up to Maine and camped our land so we could fish almost every weekend.  Some fishing trips were more successful than others, as you can see by Frank's catch! 

Frank's little perch

One good weekend, we caught a pair of 2-1/2 lb smallmouths and decided to  keep one of them for dinner.  Unfortunately, when we got back to the campsite to prepare dinner, I realized I was missing a key ingredient.  So we threw the coleman stove, frying pan and fish into the car and headed to the nearest store in Belgrade Lakes, which was 20 minutes away.  We had stayed on the water so long, I was starving and knew there was no way I could wait to get back to the campsite to cook.  Right next to the store was a small public park on Long Pond.  I set up my stove, and proceeded to fillet and cook my fish.  Some other tourists came into the park and they started to photograph me as I prepared my fish and cooked it. They must have thought I was a local Mainiac living off the land!

Esther with one of the 2-1/2 lb smallmouth bass

1989 May 29 - Maine

We had just bought 4 acres of land in Maine and this was our first fishing trip on the pond we have deeded access to.  I decided to troll across the lake to see what I could catch and was pleased to quickly catch this perch.

Esther's perch

I continued to fish, remembering what the guide had taught us and I caught a smallmouth .  

Esther's smallmouth bass

Then I caught a largemouth, each fish got bigger and bigger.  Yes this is mine! Frank is just holding it since he frequently helped me land the fish. 

Esther's largemouth bass