2012 Aug 5 - Fishing with my Brother-in-law

My sister Mary, her husband Dick, and daughter Aimee came up to Maine and spent the weekend with us. Dick hasn't fished in freshwater for years so we couldn't wait to show him how good the fishing is in Maine.  Unfortunately, it was August and hot out, so the fishing was not very good on the first day.  The next day, I went out with them to bring Dick some good luck.  We weren't out too long before Dick hooked into a nice bass.  It was a beauty - 2-1/2 lb largemouth!  I was  responsible for the camcorder (which I don't use very often), so in my haste to get his catch filmed, I messed up and didn't get a picture of his bass :-(

I did get pictures of a couple of his other fish that day, but not the big one!  Sorry Dick  - you will have to come back and try again next year.

Dick caught this pickerel

Dick with a small largemouth bass

2012 July 27 - Maine Loons

We decided to try fishing on Echo Lake. It was a sunny hot summer day and the fishing was terrible! We didn't catch anything but we did get to see a loon with a baby. It was the first time ever I have seen a mother loon with a baby.

Mother and baby loon

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 Early June - Maine

Frank with a 3 lb 18" largemouth bass

Fishing in the first half of June was very good and we caught more bass than we can show.  Here is one of the large bass that Frank caught.

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.

2012 Memorial Day Weekend - "I Caught Another One!"

My niece, Caitlin, and her husband Steve came up to go fishing with us for the weekend.  We had a beautiful weekend and the fishing was great for all of us.

Caitlin, Steve and their 3 dogs head out for a day of fishing

Caitlin landed a huge largemouth bass!

My niece doesn't fish very often and she couldn't believe how many fish we were catching.  She was excited at first but towards the end of the day we heard her say to her husband with disappointment in her voice "I caught another one!"
I guess she had had enough.  I never have enough when the fishing is good!

Frank with his 3-1/4 lb largemouth bass

Esther with a largemouth bass (not as big as Frank's!)