Mainebass1984

I am working all weekend. Good luck out there guys.... Once I am done with this current 10 day stretch of working everyday I will have 11 days off. The bass wont know what hit them.

Fishing in the Rain is AMAZING ! One of the best times to fish. I have caught many lunkers in the rain especially a "warm" rain. A light rain seems best. What were you fishing ?

I like to fish southern and western Maine. Central Maine has some amazing bass fishing an is noted for it. The first 7 lber I ever caught was from Unity Pond. I fished Unity Pond a lot while I was attending Unity College. There also are a lot of quality fish at Plymouth Pond.

Its a looooonggggg winter up there from Nov-May.... There will be a few mornings between -40 and -30 degrees. Better dress warm, buy a power auger and some ice fishing gear.

Watch out for the long cold snow filled winters up there in Northern Maine. You could go cabin fever stir crazy up around Caribou and Houlton.

Welcome aboard Brandon ! Glad to see another Mainer on here. I fish much further south then you do around the Fryeburg area. The Northeast forum on here has tons of great info about fishing in northern New England.

Cant go wrong with a Jig !

In my opinion the bite is good for numbers and quality sized fish when the water temperature is 55-65 degrees. Once it drops to around 50 degrees number of fish caught seems to go way down but the average size of fish goes way way up and you have a real good chance at catching the biggest bass of the year.

I caught an Atlantic Salmon while I was trout fishing with me dad when I was 16. It was one heck of a fight on 6 lb test. First thing it did was jump completely out of the water three times and then run up river around a couple bends in the river. Goy it turned around and then it went down river quite awhile. It took me into a deep pool along an undercut bank that was almost over my head. I had to cross through the pool to the other side of the river before landing the fish. It measured 29 1/4 inches long and weighed in at 9 lbs 4 oz . The fish had been marked at a fish ladder. It was one of 32 fish that were passed up over a dam over 100 miles from the ocean. I caught it in a small tributary 20 feet wide. Very, very rare to catch a wild sea run Atlantic Salmon in southern Maine.

Still a bit warm for a fall bite.

That's fishing I suppose. Next personal best can be next cast or 10 years down the road. I have confidence fish of that caliber swim where I fish, in the spots I fish, and will bite the lure I am throwing. Got to have confidence in this sport. Hopefully I wont have to wait 10 years for a new personal best.

I really hope to break my personal best this fall. It is going to be a challenge to do so here in New England.

I like to fish deeper isolated structure in the fall. An isolated sunken tree in 15 ft of water or an isolated rockpile in 25-40 feet. Isolated and deeper seem to do the trick for me especially for bigger fish.

Rip it right out of the grass or count it down so your just barely ticking the top of the grass. You can also just cast it out and real it in like a lipless crankbait.

I do not fish them vertically very much. I take a long cast and let them flutter to bottom. Then I hop it slowly back to the boat. A lot of the strikes I get is when it is fluttering back to bottom after I left it a couple feet off bottom. I have a lot of confidence in this bait in the late fall. Of course I love to fish jigs to but there are many days when you simply catch more fish on a silver buddy. I have my most luck fishing it around very steep drop offs where there are schools of baitfish. It is an excellent late season bait. I rarely vertically jig it.

How were you retrieving them ?

They are a very effective bait in the fall especially when bass are relating to baitfish in deeper water.

Nice little article. The silver buddy is one of my go to baits in the fall. I am sure there must be other guys that do the same. I fish 10-45 feet with them.

Does anyone else use silver buddies ? When and where do you prefer to use them ?

HUGE !

It has been a pretty warm September. This past Monday though it was a balmy 26 degrees in the morning. I will be on vacation from Oct 17th-27th. I will for sure be fishing almost every day and will know exactly what the water temperature is. I DO NOT hope for any early ice. I would much rather be in my boat as long as i can. Last year I was ice fishing on thanksgiving just a couple days after being in my boat bass fishing. I really hope it stays warm in the 60s. If it is in the 50s the last two week of Oct I will be happy. Overcast, light winds and light rain will make me very happy.

In 2 weeks the water temperature will be pretty close to 50 degrees. Winter fishing to me means ice fishing. I usually break the ice a few times with my boat before I put it away around thanksgiving. Right now for most places the water temperature is in the low 60's to high 50's around Maine and Vermont. Right now my three best baits are a jig, a square bill and texas rigged worm. Once the water cools to 50 degrees I stick with the jig and blade baits like the silver buddy.

Once the water temperature drops under 50 degrees I fish very slow and deep

Bob, I haven't stopped shaking. lol. One heck of a fish. Did he get it weighed on a certified scale ? Congrats to him. I don't recall seeing him during the Maine Bass Trail tourneys.

The girth on that thing looks bigger then 18 inches