I'll be up in the Belgrade area next week, planning to fish an open tournament on Sebasticook Lake next Saturday. Does anyone have any info about this lake?
I looked on ME Fish Finder and got the general info (depth, types of fish, etc.), but I'd like to hear from anyone with more personal experience fishing there.
If you're willing to part with any knowledge you might have, please let me know, either here or in PM. =)
Thanks!
I looked on ME Fish Finder and got the general info (depth, types of fish, etc.), but I'd like to hear from anyone with more personal experience fishing there.
If you're willing to part with any knowledge you might have, please let me know, either here or in PM. =)
Thanks!
I have never fish this particular lake but I have fished a dozen others in the general area. "Most" bass move off the banks in summer sand relate to deeper weeds. Start in 5-10' of water and move deeper if need be. They do not generally relate to the banks. Any humps, especially ones you can find on your own and are not easily seen with a topo map are usually gold. Light jigs and carolina rigs. Swimbaits definitly have their place as well. Find DEEP cabbage and throw the swimbaits over the tops especially in the mornings. Fish for LM and not SM, Most people think SM when they think Maine but the LM fishing is amazing.
I have never fish this particular lake but I have fished a dozen others in the general area. "Most" bass move off the banks in summer sand relate to deeper weeds. Start in 5-10' of water and move deeper if need be. They do not generally relate to the banks. Any humps, especially ones you can find on your own and are not easily seen with a topo map are usually gold. Light jigs and carolina rigs. Swimbaits definitly have their place as well. Find DEEP cabbage and throw the swimbaits over the tops especially in the mornings. Fish for LM and not SM, Most people think SM when they think Maine but the LM fishing is amazing.
Golden advice right here. We took 1st place fishing grass in 5-10' feet of calm water. It had to be calm. Any wind and the bite shut off.
Won with 13.14.8lbs. Biggest went 4.2. Lost lunker largemouth to someone who caught a 4.2.6! Crazy.
Thank you, sir!
Congrats on the win! Even though it's bass fishing 101, Rich can give some good advice from time to time
FWIW it actually is not bass fishing 101. Here in Mass most tournaments are won shallow all year long. Docks, downed trees, overhangs and lillypads are a sure fired way to cash a check.
Go up to that area of Maine come July - September and the shallows are void of bass for the most part. All that excellent looking cover has nothing in it.
Thanks for the kind words Roger..... I think
Flipping and pitching to grass/weeds is certainly not a strange technique to me, but it was hard to pull offshore it looked so good. We started shallow and never had a bite. Other people fished the drops between the shore and the grassline and struck out as well.
Moving out beyond the initial drop was the key. Had Stratos not suggested it, I might have kept at the shoreline like a stubborn turd.
Moving out beyond the initial drop was the key. Had Stratos not suggested it, I might have kept at the shoreline like a stubborn turd.