Salsgang

Hi Thanks for the help everyone. We hit the river again last night. We texas rigged some green pumpkin senko style baits and got some action. We got 6 in the boat and 14 on over 2 hours. As you can see we are still trying to figure out when to set the hook. We got them to the boat a lot but they were coming off so we were not getting good hook sets but it was a lot of fun. Not a whole lot of size in the boat - mostly in the 8" to 12" range - but the increased strike rate certainly made my boys happy. We will keep experimenting with it. Thanks!

Thanks for the replies and tips all. I can see I need to get more familiar with plastics! Any good on-line resources on plastics (mostly around rigging, what hooks to use etc) that you can point me at?

Hi - first time poster here. I live in Southern Maine and like to hit the Androscoggin River in the Lisbon area on occasion. I have gotten some nice small mouth out of there but have never really tied into them. 3-4 fish over 3 hours is my typical evening. Last night (July 11) I got two in the first 10 minutes on a fairly large red & white popper on a fly rod. Thought it was going to be a good night but then it quieted down. This guy was a lot of fun on a fly rod though. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ux9vH3_PVA4/U8Eu31Fr2AI/AAAAAAAABJw/8io0nLMK51Q/s1600/Dad's+Fish+Photos+2.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EzPz07AZNsY/U8Eu3WsIQhI/AAAAAAAABJo/HVwIPrVfors/s1600/Dad's+Fish+Photos+6.jpg Then a bit after sunset in the current closer to the bridge / dam there was a lot of rises. I thought it might be some river browns so we were throwing some dry flies at them but we could not see a hatch going on. The fish were being very aggressive like they were chasing something so I threw a rainbow countdown rapala at them with a spin rod and landed a nice 15" smallie. Gave a great fight. So I am guessing these were bass chasing after minnows making all the commotion on the water. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sr20yydfgjw/U8Eu3vEi4iI/AAAAAAAABJs/h3-Ysuw1xGM/s1600/Dad's+Fish+Photos+10.jpg My real question here is anyone on the board have experience / tips on landing Maine river smallies? I would like to have a night where I am dragging them in the boat left and right. While I get some nice fish out of the river, they are few and far between. Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks!