Super User Swamp Girl Posted June 5, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Pat Brown said: You also have my closest thing to a grandma I've got left living in Bangor: My great aunt Tish! (She likes me to call her Great Aunt Fish ???) I'm not even remotely opposed to the idea of - 100 bass days - lobster - smallmouth - muskie - pike - perch - successfully using whopper ploppers to catch fish. Seems like you got all of those and even mooses (meese?) to boot! Maine is calling.... Weirdly, we don't have a lot of muskies. Nor pike. the St. John River on the Canadian border is good musky fishing. Mostly, we're smallmouth, largemouth, striped bass, white perch, yellow perch, brook trout, lake trout, and Atlantic salmon. Regarding Whopper Ploppers, if you read the very, very fine print on a Whopper Plopper box, you'll see, "Guaranteed to work only in Maine!" Great Aunt Fish sounds like a great ol' gal and I assert this as a pretty good ol' gal. Murph, that's a new PB! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmurphy87 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 13 minutes ago, ol'crickety said: Weirdly, we don't have a lot of muskies. Nor pike. the St. John River on the Canadian border is good musky fishing. Mostly, we're smallmouth, largemouth, striped bass, white perch, yellow perch, brook trout, lake trout, and Atlantic salmon. Regarding Whopper Ploppers, if you read the very, very fine print on a Whopper Plopper box, you'll see, "Guaranteed to work only in Maine!" Great Aunt Fish sounds like a great ol' gal and I assert this as a pretty good ol' gal. Murph, that's a new PB! That’s what I was thinking too lol, sometimes you don’t have the scale when it happens. But you just know, sometimes I think if we quit chasing numbers we would be happier. I mean we are catching fish and that’s all that matters in reality, everything else comes in the correct location and timing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User BrianMDTX Posted June 5, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 5, 2023 Maine. Such a beautiful state. And Allagash White to boot! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Swamp Girl Posted June 5, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 5, 2023 It is pretty, Brian. We're 90% trees, more than any other state. We also have more coastline than California. It's the only place in the U.S. where the middle class can afford oceanfront property. The best thing is that the Maine strains of LMB AND SMB love Whopper Ploppers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Jar11591 Posted June 5, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 5, 2023 @ol'crickety I consider upstate NY a sportsperson’s paradise, with the Adirondacks, Catskills, Heldebergs, Great Lakes, finger lakes, lake Champlain, Mohawk, Hudson and St. Lawrence river valleys, and a lot of land designated as “forever wild”. I imagine the entire state of Maine as such. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody B Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 I don't intend to talk bad about Maine, or any other state........but our lakes don't freeze over down here.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Swamp Girl Posted June 5, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 5, 2023 25 minutes ago, Woody B said: I don't intend to talk bad about Maine, or any other state........but our lakes don't freeze over down here.? No doubt, Woody. Every place has its positives and minuses. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottW Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 29 minutes ago, Woody B said: I don't intend to talk bad about Maine, or any other state........but our lakes don't freeze over down here.? Don’t jinx it Woody! ? Spent a couple hours tossing a weightless Big Bite Baits coontail worm in hematoma (dark blue-ish) and caught a few. Just tossed it out and let it sink then gave it a twitch or two before slowly reeling it back. About midway every time after a couple twitches it’d get slurped up and the line would start running. Drove me nuts just letting it sink and sit but it was working so I put in the patience. Biggest one was 2.8# and put on a heck of a tail walking show at first. 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmontgomery87 Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 I went out from about 7pm-9pm tonight and caught 6 largemouth. Two on a spook, three on a Senko, and one on a swim jig. The biggest one was 2lb 15oz. The weather was perfect this evening. 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User PhishLI Posted June 6, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 6, 2023 The news said haze from the Canadian wildfires would be upon us driven down by northern winds, and once it rose, we had a gauzy red moon overhead. Ran up to get some swings in, but by then the wind was gone and the water was like glass. No action dragging baits, but the weight-tweaked 6th Sense Trace floater got some play. Most of my swim and wake bait bites this year have been slurp-and-runs, but I finally got a big kill-shot blowup when the bigger of the two smashed it nicely. Very cool. 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Team9nine Posted June 6, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 6, 2023 Made a single pass on two micro lakes yesterday. Neighbor was already there fishing one of them when I arrived. He only got two bites, but one was a solid fish at 4 lbs or better based on the pics he showed me. He caught it on a big Chatterbait, which seemed out of place for this little spot, but it worked. I went finesse and caught over 2 dozen bass, a third on Ned and the rest on a Jackall Cover Craw, but didn’t have anything of size even close to his big one. Reflecting on the day in hindsight, I would have taken his two bites over my 25 just to have the big one, but I’m drawn to numbers and action, so it’s always tough for me to throw what feels like an “out of place” bait, knowing I might not get bit at all. 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throttleplate Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 Wife and I went fishin monday to a dam in ND. We brought minnows and gulp live minners. We caught a handfull of small walleye and kept 2 of them. The smallies were small and the relentless catfish were devouring the live minnows so we put on the gulp live and they were just as crazy for them. Also caught 2 white bass on minnows. Have any of you kept white bass to eat? I read on the innerweb that there is a mucus by the spine you need to avoid along with having to cut out the red parts of the meat as it has a bad taste. I threw everything i had in my tackle box and couldnt catch but 2 walleye on a rattletrap and caught numerous catfish on square bills. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted June 6, 2023 Global Moderator Share Posted June 6, 2023 3 hours ago, throttleplate said: . Have any of you kept white bass to eat? Never……… 8 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User T-Billy Posted June 6, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 6, 2023 3 hours ago, throttleplate said: read on the innerweb that there is a mucus by the spine you need to avoid along with having to cut out the red parts of the meat as it has a bad taste. Fillet them, and just zipper the bones along the lateral line out like anything else. They're delicious. Don't worry about trimming out the red meat. I like 'em better than crappie myself. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Swamp Girl Posted June 6, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 6, 2023 They're okay. Lots of people eat 'em. My faves are brookies, yellow perch, and walleye. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Bird Posted June 6, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 6, 2023 Fished a new lake today for largemouth and caught mostly Smallmouth. Lol Water temp 68* Largemouth were caught on Jackall flickShake GP candy. Smallmouth were caught on 1/8 Shakyhead/Zoom speed craw. 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throttleplate Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 @T-Billy Wife fileted them at the river last night. We asked another guy fishing there if they were good eating and he googled it and thats how we found out about the red meat areas tasting quite fishy. Will eat them tonight. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User T-Billy Posted June 6, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 6, 2023 1 minute ago, throttleplate said: @T-Billy Wife fileted them at the river last night. We asked another guy fishing there if they were good eating and he googled it and thats how we found out about the red meat areas tasting quite fishy. Will eat them tonight. I always heard that too, and threw away a lot of good meat over the years. Last summer I tried frying a few without trimming all the red out, and it made no difference in taste. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex from GA Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 If I catch a white bass it goes home with me. Tonight we're eating Alabama bass, I kept one this morning. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted June 6, 2023 Global Moderator Share Posted June 6, 2023 @Bird, nice smallie @throttleplate, it all depends on how long you freeze em and who you are feeding them to. Cut the red out if you are having a lot of people over or if they are being frozen for over a month or two. My wife also doesn’t like the red part, she calls it the grey meat (turns that color when you cook it) my brothers in laws would slap me for cutting out that delicious fish flavor. some people want to eat fish that taste like chicken, some people like the taste of fish 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User gimruis Posted June 6, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 6, 2023 26 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said: some people like the taste of fish Not sure I would call fried fish dipped in tarter sauce as having the "taste of fish" anymore. At that point it doesn't really matter what you're eating because all your tasting is the batter/breading and the sauce. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted June 6, 2023 Global Moderator Share Posted June 6, 2023 12 minutes ago, gimruis said: Not sure I would call fried fish dipped in tartar sauce as having the "taste of fish" anymore. At that point it doesn't really matter what you're eating because all your tasting is the batter/breading and the sauce. Same rules apply grilled baked or fried 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Team9nine Posted June 7, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 7, 2023 Got the opportunity to hit a small lake I usually only get to a time or two each year. Light breeze and hazy/cloudy skies from the Canadian wildfires was a welcome respite from the hot sun we’ve been getting. Managed to pick off 40 bass in a couple hours fishing just soft plastics again today. Lots of smaller fish in the mix, but I did get one around 4 lbs. and a couple other decent fish to go with him. Hoping for one more trip there later this week if scheduling allows. Always enjoy going to somewhere different as a change of pace, as each lake is different with its own personality. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keagbassr Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 Got out today about 7-12 ,caught 5, 4 on a frog and 1 on a buzzbait that weighed 4-1. 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User GreenPig Posted June 7, 2023 Super User Share Posted June 7, 2023 3 minutes ago, keagbassr said: Got out today about 7-12 ,caught 5, 4 on a frog and 1 on a buzzbait that weighed 4-1. Nice dark fish. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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