@Bass Rutten changed my life. In another thread, he posted a photo of a weightless Senko. I have always fished Senkos with bullet weights and when @JonB2 said he loves weightless worms too, I thought it would be perfect for my style of fishing, which is stealthy and often in close quarters. @FloridaFishinFool helped too by making me aware of solunar tables. The table said this morning would be great and it was.

I caught three bass on my first three casts and then lost the next two. Other than two bass on a white walking bait and one bass on a trolled craw, I caught every bass on a green pumpkin weightless Senko with a chartreuse tip. I pulled them from shoreline cover, a white pine laydown, from mid-pond grass, a couple rivers, lily pads, and a rock flat.

80 is the most I've ever caught in one trip in Maine. I had two 70-bass mornings in 2024. I could have caught 100 if I were younger and had fished another hour or two. Like @Lottabass, I left feeding bass because I was tired. Oh, to be young again, Al. Just think how many we could catch if we were!

Here are the first two bass I caught in the cut that runs through the bog to my dock. I was backing the canoe out the cut, so I had to swivel in my seat to cast:

I measured some of the early bass:

I didn't measure this one, but it was my biggest and my 70th bass:

This was my final bass, a thick smallie:

This was the only bass I caught trolling:

Here are two of five bass I caught from one laydown:

I have now caught 780 bass in 2026. I want to reach 1,000 by the end of June and 1,800 for the year. I have about two more weeks of hot fishing. Then it will slow for two months and pick up again in September and October.

Here are some of the other bass:

Excellent.

Well I'm happy to have played a small part in helping someone else catch some nice fish. Funny thing is I actually, for the most part, swore off using senkos about a decade ago because me and my fishing buddy were relying on them a little too much, and we'd joke that the senko is regressing all our other fishing skills. Maybe we were wrong?

Your trolling bass makes me smile…I also had brown bass with pads and weeds in the background today…looks weird, but 🤷‍♂️