This stream is right in the middle of town (grocery store to the right, downtown parking to left). About 200 feet downstream it empties into the main river. If you look upstream there is a bridge-- that’s head of tide.
You can see a guy fly-fishing up stream. In a couple weeks, I’ll have the 10wt out fly fishing for striped bass, sea-run browns,etc as they go up stream spawning and picking off herring. Also fish for alewives and shad (ie. herring). I posted a pic earlier in this thread me fly fishing in that flat about 50 feet above him. Tide was in in that pic, out here.
It’s low tide in the pic and it comes up about 3.5-4 feet (top of rocks). During ice out flooding, this ravine is underwater and the parking lot to the left is about 2 feet underwater…
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Got some bass tonight. Great way to end the week.[/quote]
Nice smally D! Is that some kind of hybrid? Almost looks like a mean mouth?[/quote]
Nice largemouth yourself!! That sucks about your fishing spot. I’ve got a lot of similar stories about fishing spots, hunting areas, and general recreation land-- all ending with douchebags moving in.
re: smallie – I don’t think it’s hybrid, at least I’ve never heard of any up here. They are a bit toughened though I think because of the colder water and the fact that I’m in tidal water, too. They’re competing with sea-run striped bass, sea-run brown trout, and tidal white perch at this spot.
They tend to be smaller, but they fight harder than anything I ever caught all my years further south. Up close, the one in that first pic had some mouth and body scarring and some fin-wear— she’s breathed open air a few times in her life. Respect.[/quote]
Thank you.
The reason I asked it looked like it has a pretty good sized mouth. We have a strain in Missouri they call a mean mouth that is a small/large hybrid that fight like small mouth and get bigger like large mouth. I’ve only caught a few small ones but they’re a rush.
That looks like a good fishing river you have, hopefully town doesn’t take it over too much.
Bunch of smallies last night and tonight. Had a neat experience re-catching a fish (will explain in a minute). My oldest daughter is having a blast fishing with me. She’s mastering using lures (instead of just worm/bobber) and landed some nice bass the past couple nights on her own.
Been using a combination of top and bottom lures.
This spot is great. It’s a Kennebec River tributary (about 1000 feet upstream of tidal water previously shown). Quick moving water, lots of rocks and gravel, lots of oxygen and pools along the course.
Bass love to spawn in the gravel. You can see beds all over.
Here are a couple shots:
You can see the bass if you look close in these vids… I’ll show you EXACTLY what she looks like in the next post
Here’s a view of the general area (we’re under a bridge structure on the rip-rap):
So, I took my oldest fishing last night (our “secret” spot).
Landed a bunch of smallmouth bass. One bass, she’s about 16-17" (according to my leg measurement), had a snelled hook in her eye that someone left that previously caught her. Ouch.
So, last night I catch her (top water on a popper) and as I got the treble hooks out, she jumped and I dropped her back in the water. I wanted to try to get that hook out.
BUT, my daughter kept bugging me today that we go back and try to catch her to help her out. OK, twist my arm to go fishing, eh?
I hook a fish and call my daughter over to land it. Fish is big and jumping, fighting hard— it’s her again!
Helped her out by getting that hook out of her eye and getting her back to her spawning bed, hopefully to spawn and grow a little more.
That is a big smallie, the smile on your girls face(cartoon) is in proportion to her real smile
I bet.
The pond I fish at seems too small to produce the big fish we catch. I was thinking about marking them somehow to see if we’re catching the same few big ones. A friend of mine suggested using a single hole punch used for office paper. I don’t want to harm them and I’m worried the hole will allow an infection to attack the fish. Good idea?
The pond has no minnows so what are the bass eating to get 4# and up? Do bass eat algie?
Going fishing on saturday, long weekend for us here, can’t wait!
You might want to contact whatever your equivalent of “Fish and Game” office you have in Canadia. They might offer some suggestions. Typical is a fin notch (with a tool similar to hole punch) or even a tagging tool.
Some areas (at least in US) will assist folks who want to monitor fish populations, usually for the exchange of data and logs. Here, locally, the shad are tagged and we’re encouraged to report catching the fish and the location and whether we kept or released the fish.
The bass that we caught, as i mentioned, have breathed air many times. Sometimes they’re scarred or otherwise marked just from being caught often. The first bass I posted was scarred. Many have unique fin damage. The one that I posted right after the spawning bed vids had a ‘v’ scar in the upper lip, no doubt from someone jigging right there were I was (I hooked it in upper jaw as well).
You might want to contact whatever your equivalent of “Fish and Game” office you have in Canadia. They might offer some suggestions. Typical is a fin notch (with a tool similar to hole punch) or even a tagging tool.
Some areas (at least in US) will assist folks who want to monitor fish populations, usually for the exchange of data and logs. Here, locally, the shad are tagged and we’re encouraged to report catching the fish and the location and whether we kept or released the fish.
The bass that we caught, as i mentioned, have breathed air many times. Sometimes they’re scarred or otherwise marked just from being caught often. The first bass I posted was scarred. Many have unique fin damage. The one that I posted right after the spawning bed vids had a ‘v’ scar in the upper lip, no doubt from someone jigging right there were I was (I hooked it in upper jaw as well).[/quote]
Thanks for the heads up D
The place where I fish is an old 1 1/2 acre abandoned gravel pit so I doubht the govy would care but I can always send an e-mail. I’ve been checking for markings up to this point, there is no pike or anything in the pond to show teeth marks so it’s going to be difficult. I’ve been tempted to cut one open to see what they are munching on though.
You might want to contact whatever your equivalent of “Fish and Game” office you have in Canadia. They might offer some suggestions. Typical is a fin notch (with a tool similar to hole punch) or even a tagging tool.
Some areas (at least in US) will assist folks who want to monitor fish populations, usually for the exchange of data and logs. Here, locally, the shad are tagged and we’re encouraged to report catching the fish and the location and whether we kept or released the fish.
The bass that we caught, as i mentioned, have breathed air many times. Sometimes they’re scarred or otherwise marked just from being caught often. The first bass I posted was scarred. Many have unique fin damage. The one that I posted right after the spawning bed vids had a ‘v’ scar in the upper lip, no doubt from someone jigging right there were I was (I hooked it in upper jaw as well).[/quote]
Thanks for the heads up D
The place where I fish is an old 1 1/2 acre abandoned gravel pit so I doubht the govy would care but I can always send an e-mail. I’ve been checking for markings up to this point, there is no pike or anything in the pond to show teeth marks so it’s going to be difficult. I’ve been tempted to cut one open to see what they are munching on though. [/quote]
Cool. Take pics!
I’m betting bugs, grubs, larvae, tadpoles/frogs/amphibians, maybe crayfish(?), if there aren’t any other fish in there, but I’d bet you’d be surprised at what actually lives in that small amount of water!
Thank you Steely. I just god back from using it. First catch on it was a nice 14" brownie. Super sensitive too. As soon as that fish bumped the nymph, I knew it was on.
I watched a show lastnight that had guys fishing for these monsters. I never heard of a Alligator Gar before. What a beast! I’ve heard the expression " everythings big in Texas" but this is crazy.
This show was called monsterquest and they went all around the world looking for monster fresh water fish. In the ninties someone in Minnasota found the jaw bone of a muskie and gave it to the fish and game people and they gave it to a taxidermist to figure out how big it was…six feet long! They guy also said it would have probably beat the existing record easy.
My fishing buddie bought another boat so now I can use his old one by myself and try out the fly rod my dad gave me again. I’ll have all the room I need now without getting hung up on bushes from shore like I used to. Fly fishing is more work but if I ever manage to hook into one of the 4-5 pound bass in this pond It will be worth it.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
I watched a show lastnight that had guys fishing for these monsters. I never heard of a Alligator Gar before. What a beast! I’ve heard the expression " everythings big in Texas" but this is crazy.
This show was called monsterquest and they went all around the world looking for monster fresh water fish. In the ninties someone in Minnasota found the jaw bone of a muskie and gave it to the fish and game people and they gave it to a taxidermist to figure out how big it was…six feet long! They guy also said it would have probably beat the existing record easy.
My fishing buddie bought another boat so now I can use his old one by myself and try out the fly rod my dad gave me again. I’ll have all the room I need now without getting hung up on bushes from shore like I used to. Fly fishing is more work but if I ever manage to hook into one of the 4-5 pound bass in this pond It will be worth it.
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Yep, pretty common just 45 minutes from my house. Big monster fish for sure. Used to bow-fish for them in the shallower areas. Water was so muddy you had to wait for them to surface and then guess where they were as they quickly went under. Pulling in a 30-40 lb or bigger hand over fist is entertaining for sure.
