@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 🤷‍♂️

Amazing morning!

48 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

Amazing morning!

It exhausted me. I caught more small bass than I normally do and when I hooked one, I was relieved because I didn't have to wrestle them. Some more of my bass:

6 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

@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:

That's by far my favorite color combination in 4 or 5 inch, Senko or Yum Dinger; preferably weightless, sometimes Neko rigged. What a day Swamp Girl, I bet everyone reading this is envious; I know I am.

40 minutes ago, Tackleholic said:

That's by far my favorite color combination in 4 or 5 inch, Senko or Yum Dinger; preferably weightless, sometimes Neko rigged.

The bass really seem to like that chartreuse tip. When I see it in the water and the tip is wildly waving as I twitch it, I almost want to bite it too!

41 minutes ago, Tackleholic said:

What a day Swamp Girl, I bet everyone reading this is envious; I know I am.

Thanks. However, turning 70 this August, I did feel the strain of that many bass. For example, I really struggled to unhook the last few I caught. I was just too tired to summon my skills.

When Bass Resource was down, I posted at a Maine Facebook bass fishing page and I'd report how many bass I caught. Some of the guys who replied seemed to doubt that I caught what I reported. There's no way I'd report that I caught 80 today.

4 hours ago, Bass Rutten said:

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

Thats funny you say that, I've somewhat felt the same. Not that I "rely" on senkos too much, they just work so perfect on my small, slower river. If I want a lazy day of just catching bass; tossing a weightless, texas rigged senko is hard to beat.

7 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

when @JonB2 said he loves weightless worms too

I LOVE jigs, but I've come to accept and often enjoy line-jumping with senkos. I have dingers for t-rigging as they're much lighter than senkos, but if I'm fishing weightless...only the original. I think your water color would be very conducive to purple-pearl with blue flake, which is my #1 color. You might hit 100 on that one!

20 minutes ago, JonB2 said:

You might hit 100 on that one!

Oh, I could have hit 100 today. I was just too tired to keep fishing. I decided I'd stop at 80 and I did. 5.5 hours with miles of paddling and fighting all those bass took me to Tuckered Town.

When I was young and perky, I had many 100-bass days in Michigan, Wisconsin, and northwestern Ontario. Sadly, that was half a century or so ago.

Thanks for sharing your great day. I’ve never gotten close to 100, but not had the opportunity yet either.

I got 10 today in 2.5 hours. Not sure what they really wanted, but I force fed them a bladed jig and then a swim jig as that’s what I wanted to learn.

Every time I've tied a Senko on its been weightless on a T rig or a wacky rig. My thought process with it is that its a heavy lure on its own, so I've never really saw a need to put a weight on it.

9 hours ago, Bazoo said:

Thanks for sharing your great day. I’ve never gotten close to 100, but not had the opportunity yet either.

I got 10 today in 2.5 hours. Not sure what they really wanted, but I force fed them a bladed jig and then a swim jig as that’s what I wanted to learn.

Ten bass in 2.5 hours from the shore is good fishing. I'm nearly certain I couldn't catch that many from the shore of my pond. A boat is a HUGE advantage.

Swamp Girl my son and I used the solunar calendar last night to target our bass and he scored 18 fish in 1 hour, and I was around 13 I think. I lost count really. Just get caught up in the catching we forget about the count sometimes. Not my son. He's out to win. And he did.

He concentrated on open water and said he found them in a corner of the pond we were bank fishing. I was walking the far side targeting heavy cover and getting hung up a lot more, but the topwater bite was explosive in there.

And as the solunar calendar turned past the peak, the bite just shut off as expected. It has shown itself to be a very accurate indicator. I hope it is as accurate for you as well.

80 fish is amazing! My kid thought his 18 in an hour or so was doing good, and when we got home I showed him your count and he could not believe it. I said she takes photos of each and measures them. Documented kiddo! Now he wants 80!

7 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

My kid thought his 18 in an hour or so was doing good

It's not doing good. It's doing great. He was fishing from the bank. Much harder than fishing from a boat.

7 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

Now he wants 80!

That would be harder for him because NLMB are more aggressive than the bass he catches, but he has youth and passion and so he could do it.

9 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I said she takes photos of each and measures them.

I don't measure them all, but I'll measure some here and there to give you guys a sense of their size. I'm sure this was my biggest bass, but I didn't measure her. She was at the end (the 70th bass) and I was too tired to fiddle with the bump board. The ones I did measure were some of the first bass when I was still perky. She had a big head and I love when they get that bump on their back:

14 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I hope it is as accurate for you as well.

It sure was and I banked on it, fishing a little longer than normal so that I could fish the hot stretch.

22 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

@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:

I recognize that laydown! Man, do I miss that laydown! Way to go Swampy! One thing I noticed right away about your pond bass. They pull like the devil! Sounds like a fun way to catch'um!

5 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

They pull like the devil!

And that's why they wore me out, Bob!

5 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

I recognize that laydown!

I knew you would. I pulled five out of it and lost another two. They were stacked in it yesterday.

Awesome day and report! Were you wacky-rigging or Texas-rigging?

2 hours ago, pdxfisher said:

Awesome day and report! Were you wacky-rigging or Texas-rigging?

T-rigging. And thanks!

Sounds like an epic day! I believe 1800 is within reach for you, I know I’ll be rooting for you.

Outstanding!

The weightless Senko is no joke, and the chartreuse tip is a bit of a (not so) secret weapon for plastics and jigs any time the water is a little dark or off-color. A dark body with a chartreuse tip is characteristic of bluegills, which have bright tails. Get a good look at an adult bluegill from above in shaded or overcast conditions, and you can't miss it.