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Title: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: K-Guy on July 15, 2020, 08:55:10 AM


Would any of you Mainers on here care to mention good lakes for rainbow or brook trout fishing in Central/ Northern Maine?
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 15, 2020, 10:30:42 AM
You don't have time to go trout fishing, you have work to do!   ;D :D

If you want to go fishing, come down here and we'll catch some Guntersville Green Trout.  



Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 15, 2020, 11:02:45 AM
Square lake just outside of Sinclair, absolutely slamming brookies. This year head north and west, drown worms in bogans along the St John. The Big and Little Black rivers hold awesome native square tail. What's a "rainbow" trout?  :D
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 15, 2020, 01:29:37 PM
I believe your native trouts will be brown and brook.  Rainbows may have been introduced.  
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: sawguy21 on July 15, 2020, 02:34:05 PM
They are plentiful here, my favorite gamefish. They really put up a fight. ;D @K-Guy (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=35658) knows all about them.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: K-Guy on July 15, 2020, 02:36:14 PM
Quote from: Southside on July 15, 2020, 11:02:45 AMWhat's a "rainbow" trout?


It's an imported species from out west. One of the most fun trouts to catch.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 15, 2020, 02:38:24 PM
Oh, so it's just another type of bass. ;D
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: K-Guy on July 15, 2020, 02:48:26 PM

Far better than bass and harder to catch. They have a habit of jumping out of the water when hooked and working the hook out with the re-entry impact in the water.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 15, 2020, 04:04:36 PM
I'm happy to catch any kind of trout.  Of course none are native in MO, but we have numerous streams with brown and rainbow introduced.  Many have become wild.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Texas Ranger on July 15, 2020, 04:25:27 PM
We fished Montauk State park on the Current while I was growing up, some of the best fish were down stream outside the park.  There was a baseball camp owned by my highschool science teacher adjacent to the down stream side of the park.  Handy.  Wild fish never were very big back then, but a 6 incher on a light fly rod was a fun day.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Nebraska on July 15, 2020, 04:34:32 PM
Fished Montauk in veterinary school a couple times, scratched an itch as it was tough to get to Colorado or Wyoming on a students budget. I actually may get some trout fishing in Next weekend, if the stars align right. Going to be a few days in Colorado. 8)
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: JJ on July 15, 2020, 05:41:38 PM
Brown trout is not native to Maine, stocked.   Rainbow I do not think are stocked in middle to northern Maine due to concern about damaging the native brookies.

Since you are in Bangor (I lived there 25 years ago), try the Sunkhaze Meadows (stream) off the Stud Mill road for native brook trout.
It's brush and canoe fishing.   I have caught many there, wear a good bug net, flying blood suckers are fierce, a good sign for trout.  

You haven't mentioned if you had a boat, or how far you are willing to travel.   Lakes/ponds around Bangor are shallow and boggy, don't think hold trout, but spring fed streams will.

     JJ

Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 15, 2020, 06:32:01 PM
Quote from: K-Guy on July 15, 2020, 02:48:26 PM

Far better than bass and harder to catch. They have a habit of jumping out of the water when hooked and working the hook out with the re-entry impact in the water.
Shoot, we stock rainbows and browns below the dams in the tail race here, along with catfish and similar stuff.  My biggest brown trout was over 3 pounds caught below Tim's Ford in Elk River, on a little spinner, about 30 minutes drive from my house. The biggest brown from that river is over 6 pounds.  It was a very well mannered fish, very polite when I let it go.  It was, after all, a civilized trout.  
 
In contrast, the southern largemouth bass in this area are so aggressive there's stories of them jumping into the boat, pushing the fisherman into the water, and slamming down the throttle and driving off.  That's why we have to wear kill switches hooked to us, we don't want to lose our boat.  I've never seen it, but I've heard the stories.  Remember the scene from Jaws when it jumped into the boat?  Just like that, only with a southern accent.  
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 15, 2020, 08:44:43 PM
@Nebraska (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=45256) 
@Texas Ranger (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=7) 

I grew up fishing Montauk.  Probably caught my first trout and my most recent ones there.  Ive fished in just about every trout location in MO.  Nebraska, did you go to school at Rolla?
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Texas Ranger on July 15, 2020, 08:59:47 PM
If there was cold water and trout, we fished there
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: KEC on July 15, 2020, 10:20:35 PM
Brown trout (sometimes reffered to as German Brown Trout) were brought to North America from Europe.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Mad Professor on July 15, 2020, 10:54:10 PM
Quote from: firefighter ontheside on July 15, 2020, 01:29:37 PM
I believe your native trouts will be brown and brook.  Rainbows may have been introduced.  
All brown trout in North America were introduced from Europe
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Nebraska on July 15, 2020, 10:57:45 PM
@firefighter ontheside (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=26921)  ...No it was U of Misouri -Columbia, I've got a nephew headed there and a neighbors daughter plays ball there. Trying to get my Senior in high school to be to take a look. Rolla is a good school for science and tech stuff. Fished Bennet Springs and Taneycomo as well. Got a Colorado atlas on the chair with me right now pondering a couple streams. 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Mad Professor on July 15, 2020, 11:13:58 PM
Quote from: K-Guy on July 15, 2020, 08:55:10 AM


Would any of you Mainers on here care to mention good lakes for rainbow or brook trout fishing in Central/ Northern Maine?
Not a Mainiac but I've been up in paper country/Allagash.
Snake pond, Chandler lake, Spring pond, big lakes on the west branch Penobscot and Allagash rivers.
Camping or getting a reservation at a camp is recommended.
We've got nice brookies in Vermont too


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Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: barbender on July 16, 2020, 12:54:15 AM
Yellowhammer, that's pretty rich!😂 It kind of reminded me of an old Patrick McManus piece I read as a kid. He was describing how the names of some of the new colors of plastic worms would make you worry about being out alone with them😂
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 16, 2020, 08:23:42 AM
That's quite a compliment, I loved to read all the McManus pieces, he had some of the greatest tongue in cheek stories.  I learned everything I know about Northern trout fishing from his characters Rancid Crabtree, Crazy Eddie Muldoon, Retch Sweeney and most importantly, his dog Strange.  So Stan, if you need more advice form me about northern trout fishing, you know where I get most of my information. :D

I also grew up reading Bassmaster, and the adventures of Harry and Charlie, with their Southern take on things.  We used to go watch the Bass tournaments, they always came here to Guntersville, and got introduced to Bill Dance when I was about 15, when he almost knocked me off the dock running back to his boat.  He had gotten all the way to the weigh in stage where Ray Scott was on the microphone, and they realized he had left one of his bass in his boat, still in the livewell.  So he came back, running and thundering down the dock like a Tennessee hatted bowling ball, and if he hadn't grabbed me by the shirt, I would have ended up in the water.  One of my best memories.  

From my previous post, I'm a little surprised that nobody has asked what a bass with a southern accent says before he knocks a fisherman out of his boat and drives off with it.

Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Texas Ranger on July 16, 2020, 08:41:50 AM
Nebraska, i was only 25 or so years ahead of you at Mizzou.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Nebraska on July 16, 2020, 08:45:28 AM
Git yer (donkey) outta dat  boat!..... Probably  says "thank you"  as he blows prop wash over your face and takes off with your missus.

We have the more civilized small mouth version up North on the river.  You may ask why more "civilized"???..... Obviously ....

Less "Mouthy!"


Ok I'm going to get to work before I get sent to the woodshed for bad dad jokes....
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Nebraska on July 16, 2020, 08:47:03 AM
@Texas Ranger (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=7) ...25 years a mere moment anymore it seems. Grow up in Missouri?
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Texas Ranger on July 16, 2020, 08:49:13 AM
Quote from: Nebraska on July 16, 2020, 08:47:03 AM
@Texas Ranger (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=7) ...25 years a mere moment anymore it seems. Grow up in Missouri?
High school and college, rest of the time all over with my pilot dad.  Stayed at Stone House.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: K-Guy on July 16, 2020, 09:06:42 AM
@YellowHammer (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=11488)
In BC where I was before Maine you can get rainbows over 20 lbs. My best would be around 5 lbs but even small ones can be fun.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 16, 2020, 10:14:38 AM
Quote from: Nebraska on July 15, 2020, 10:57:45 PM
@firefighter ontheside (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=26921)  ...No it was U of Misouri -Columbia, I've got a nephew headed there and a neighbors daughter plays ball there. Trying to get my Senior in high school to be to take a look. Rolla is a good school for science and tech stuff. Fished Bennet Springs and Taneycomo as well. Got a Colorado atlas on the chair with me right now pondering a couple streams.
Gotcha.  I'm not a huge fan of Bennett, but have fished there numerous times.  We fish in Taneycomo at least once a year.  We've caught some big trout in there.  Brown and Rainbow.  The only trout fishing ive done in CO was around Durango and maybe around Estes Park when i was a kid.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: sawguy21 on July 16, 2020, 11:05:50 AM
Quote from: K-Guy on July 16, 2020, 09:06:42 AM
@YellowHammer (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=11488)
In BC where I was before Maine you can get rainbows over 20 lbs. My best would be around 5 lbs but even small ones can be fun.
A rainbow over 20 lb is a steelhead, it will give you the fight of your life but fishing is severely restricted. Angling on the Thompson, one of our best rivers, has been closed to steelie for years. Even catch and release is not allowed. Bass have appeared  in some of our waterways much to the dismay of fisheries officials, they raise havoc with trout and kokanee (a small landlocked salmon) habitat. K-Guy, I am waiting for the Shuswap to drop so I can get a line in. Just thought you would like to know. ;D 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: barbender on July 16, 2020, 12:46:19 PM
YH, I used to live on McManus books when I was a kid. His tongue in cheek style and the play on words he often used, mixed with outdoor stories, just really touched my funny bone😂 I have no idea what your southern bass said😊
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 16, 2020, 01:13:34 PM
"They shoot canoes don't they?" ;D
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: K-Guy on July 16, 2020, 03:57:19 PM
Quote from: sawguy21 on July 16, 2020, 11:05:50 AMA rainbow over 20 lb is a steelhead


@sawguy21 (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1763)
Sorry to correct you but a Steelhead is a sea run rainbow trout, often over 20 lbs but Some regular landlocked rainbows have been caught over 20 also. Often at large remote lakes, James Lake comes to mind.
The unofficial record for rainbow trout is estimated at 53 lbs. It was caught in the 1920's and experts came by the weight from a photograph of the monster caught in Kootenay Lake.

Before I got married I was a bit of a fanatic fishing for "bows" year round.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 16, 2020, 04:18:41 PM
"They Shoot Canoes" is one of the best books ever written, well up there with "War and Peace", and another book I read, but I have forgotten the name, although it was pretty thick and didn't have any pictures.  But it was a good one.

Before a mean ol' southern bass tangles with a fisherman, he'll look around at his possee of schoolies hanging around the pads, turn his hat backward, spit out his chaw of milfoil, suck down his last watermelon flavored Berkley Power Bait, and say "Hey ya'll, watch this, this is gonna be good."

We have some of the best smallmouth fishing in the country here, don't forget the world record was caught in Tennessee, and they are the closest things to hyperactive fish ninjas I've ever messed with.  They are like little Bruce Lee's pumped up on caffeinated a power drink, they'd cut ya with a knife then kick ya 30 times before you could blink if you'd give them half a chance.  They are sticks of dynamite on a string, you hook them in 20 feet of water and they scream straight up out of the water like a Polaris missile.  As @Nebraska (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=45256) says, (I like the joke) they are less mouthy, but tough as nails.

I've never seen a brook trout, they sure look pretty.  We don't have brooks here, I'm not sure how north I'd have to go to where the "cricks" turn to "brooks".  If I ever get up norther, I'd like to catch brook trout, I'll bring my Wal Mart fly pole and duck hunting waders and wade out into one of them brooks.  Do I need a creel?  I'm not sure what it's used for, but it sure looks fancy in the fishing magazines.  How many beers will fit in one?  Oh, I guess I'll need one of those little hats with all the fuzzy lures sticking out of them.  Down here, we use tackle boxes, but I am, if nothing else, open to other cultures and adaptable.   :D :D

   





  
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 16, 2020, 07:27:31 PM
YH, the real Brookie fishing, ie natives, involves crawling under the nastiest batch of wild raspberries and blown down alders one can possibly fit through, only to find an open hole 15' across, and while swatting away mosquitoes, noseeums and deer flies you manage to drown a worm on your Zebco 202, because it's the only reel that will survive getting into the fishing hole. Pull out a few 10" fish and you have earned a meal fit for a king. 

The adventure really is in getting there. Never once did I see any of that fancy LL Bean stuff be of any use fishing square tail like that. 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: JJ on July 16, 2020, 07:40:42 PM
Yes @Southside (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=24297),
To bring this back to Bangor Maine, what you describe is what I remember; busting brush.
didn't see any LLBean fly fishermen there.   Those $300 9' fly rods would not get to the fish in one piece, so they fish the 'no catch zones'.

          JJ

Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 16, 2020, 07:44:10 PM
Yup, grew up doing that in The County. 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 16, 2020, 08:19:40 PM
Quote from: Southside on July 16, 2020, 07:27:31 PM
YH, the real Brookie fishing, ie natives, involves crawling under the nastiest batch of wild raspberries and blown down alders one can possibly fit through, only to find an open hole 15' across, and while swatting away mosquitoes, noseeums and deer flies you manage to drown a worm on your Zebco 202, because it's the only reel that will survive getting into the fishing hole. Pull out a few 10" fish and you have earned a meal fit for a king.

The adventure really is in getting there. Never once did I see any of that fancy LL Bean stuff be of any use fishing square tail like that.
I did this exact thing catching  brooks on the north shore of Lake Superiror in Minnesota.  They were tiny, but pretty.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: sawguy21 on July 16, 2020, 09:16:36 PM
Quote from: K-Guy on July 16, 2020, 03:57:19 PM
Quote from: sawguy21 on July 16, 2020, 11:05:50 AMA rainbow over 20 lb is a steelhead


@sawguy21 (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1763)
Sorry to correct you but a Steelhead is a sea run rainbow trout, often over 20 lbs but Some regular landlocked rainbows have been caught over 20 also. Often at large remote lakes, James Lake comes to mind.
The unofficial record for rainbow trout is estimated at 53 lbs. It was caught in the 1920's and experts came by the weight from a photograph of the monster caught in Kootenay Lake.

Before I got married I was a bit of a fanatic fishing for "bows" year round.
I am aware of that, I think you misunderstood me. The steelhead is a large sea run rainbow, the kokanee salmon is land locked.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 16, 2020, 09:57:50 PM
Quote from: Southside on July 16, 2020, 07:27:31 PM
involves crawling under the nastiest batch of wild raspberries and blown down alders one can possibly fit through, only to find an open hole 15' across, and while swatting away mosquitoes, noseeums and deer flies you manage to drown a worm on your Zebco 202.
That sounds like fun, much better than when I tried ice fishing.  When are we going?  I'll pick up K-guy on the way and we'll fly in on the Nyle corporate jet.  Stan, if you bring the worms, I'll bring the Zebycos.    

Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 16, 2020, 10:06:05 PM
We're gonna need to put some pontoons onto that jet.  There isn't hot top for 90 miles where I am talking about. 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: barbender on July 16, 2020, 11:31:27 PM
Another book I really enjoyed, and the stories were (I think) based slightly more in truth than McManus' tales, is titled "The Adventures of Jackpine Bob". He was a newspaper editor in Ely, MN after moving up there from Illinois. He had some of the most humorous true outdoor stories I've ever read. Like a McManus work, it is a collection of short stories.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: barbender on July 16, 2020, 11:33:09 PM
Sorry, it's "Tales From Jackpine Bob" by author Bob Cary.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: WDH on July 17, 2020, 07:43:50 AM
Zebco 202?  Oh my, that brings back so many memories of my youth catfishing at the Henson Pond's which cost $1.00 per day. 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Nebraska on July 17, 2020, 07:52:30 AM
 
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Not a 202 (I am a 33 fan mysel ;))
New Brook trout (mostly) rod, my son gave it to me for my birthday.  Colorado had a regulation if bookies were less than 8 inches you could keep 6 or 8 (I don't remember) One of the best meals hands down is lightly breaded salt and pepper seasoned smallish bookies died in bacon grease and fried potatoes  and oinions.  This is the outfit I would use if I were crawling through willows and stuff to get to the beaver dam' S and pools of a really small stream.  I have a packable 4 wt fly rod as well,  both work for flipping hoppers into holes and such. Not exactly Maine but definitely brook trout related. I counted the McManus books and I have 5 on the shelf. 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 17, 2020, 08:06:15 AM
Always forced myself to read the entire Outdoor Life when it arrived each month before I read the Last Laugh or there was a good chance I would not read a fair bit of the magazine if I had read McManus first.  

That and the daily Far Side calendars, never could get enough!! 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: WV Sawmiller on July 17, 2020, 08:49:04 AM
Danny,

   I read years ago somebody had caught the state record largemouth in California on a 202 reel. It broke on him and he pulled the fish in hand over hand. I gather the company did not give him a job pushing their reels for them.

   I started on a Zebco 22. Push the button on top then thumb against the shiny spinning face. You could feather the speed of the cast with your thumb. I had it on about a 3' fiberglass rod. Once while fishing with my dad and brother we got the old wooden boat positioned so I could make a long cast so I let fly with a bomber lure as hard as I could and waited, and waited for it to land. It never did. I turned around and found it was hung in my dad's lower jaw. I just busted out crying because I knew I was never going to get to go fishing again. My dad or brother could not pull it out and dad spotted a turkey hunter walking back to his truck and he got him to pull it out. Seems there was a chink of jawbone left on the barb. It was not my finest hour. :(
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 17, 2020, 09:15:56 AM
Quote from: barbender on July 16, 2020, 11:31:27 PM
Another book I really enjoyed, and the stories were (I think) based slightly more in truth than McManus' tales, is titled "The Adventures of Jackpine Bob". He was a newspaper editor in Ely, MN after moving up there from Illinois. He had some of the most humorous true outdoor stories I've ever read. Like a McManus work, it is a collection of short stories.
Wow.  I will have to look for that.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 17, 2020, 08:16:58 PM
Me too.  I'll look for it.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: terrifictimbersllc on July 19, 2020, 07:00:20 AM
Haven't caught any rainbows in the Maine lakes I've fished

Moosehead lake-brook trout, landlocked salmon, lake trout
Cupsuptic and Mooselookmeguntic-brook trout and landlocked salmon

This one from Cupsuptic.  All lake fishing is trolling for us. 


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Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 19, 2020, 07:26:58 AM
Whoa.  Thats a nice brookie.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: firefighter ontheside on July 19, 2020, 07:33:57 AM
I just ordered "Tales from Jackpine Bob" on Amazon.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: barbender on July 19, 2020, 10:10:32 AM
I don't think you'll be disappointed😉 

TT, that is a dandy brookie!
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 19, 2020, 09:30:13 PM
TT,
That is a nice fish, but in the words of McManus, "Why does it have that surprised look on its face?" :D :D
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: WDH on July 20, 2020, 07:21:11 AM
"Well Mildred, there I was, just catching some mayflies for breakfast, when I felt this sharp pain in my jaw and a sudden inclination to rush to the surface..."
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: K-Guy on July 20, 2020, 08:43:17 AM
Quote from: YellowHammer on July 19, 2020, 09:30:13 PMThat is a nice fish, but in the words of McManus, "Why does it have that surprised look on its face?"


Sorta looks like you!! smiley_blue_bounce
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: terrifictimbersllc on July 20, 2020, 08:49:31 AM
He's surprised to receive so many compliments!  :laugh:

As I recall he was about 30 ft down plotting malfeasance towards small shiny members of his own kind.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Mooseherder on July 20, 2020, 09:05:30 AM
A sign along the atv trail and Stream northern Maine.

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Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: sawguy21 on July 20, 2020, 10:53:49 AM
That has been a real problem here. A large nearby lake has a population of goldfish that has gotten out of control, they compete with the native species for food. Years ago a neighbor got caught raising bass in a pond, they are not native to the area. Fortunately they were stopped before entering the nearby river.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 20, 2020, 03:35:59 PM
Only issue I have with that sign is the means by which it is attached.  >:(
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 20, 2020, 05:02:27 PM
Oh, thats funny.  Save the trout, hurt the tree.  :D :D

Lots of people use goldfish here for bass fishing live bait.  However, I would think they have a 100% mortality rate, as its hard to survive in a lake full of hungry predators when they are bright orange colored.  

Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Southside on July 20, 2020, 05:06:07 PM
Well, it is just bass fishing anyway. May as well just eat the goldfish.  :D
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 20, 2020, 10:17:58 PM
Nah, when I come home from fishin', I'm too tired to do anything but stop by the Zaxby's for some chicken.  

About the only time I keep a fish is when its big enough I have to bring it home to stock my pond.  Like this bass I caught recently that I had to kind of fold it up to get in the cooler for the short trip from livewell to pond.


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When I want fish to eat, I just reach into the freezer and pull out some of my "red trout" fillets.

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Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Mooseherder on July 20, 2020, 11:07:22 PM
Same tree a lil further back.

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Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: WDH on July 21, 2020, 07:21:53 AM
Now you have a bridge named after you.  You are getting famous.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Mooseherder on July 21, 2020, 10:25:25 AM
Yup, and in the middle of the Northwoods. :D


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Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: WV Sawmiller on July 21, 2020, 12:04:09 PM
   Don't you guys get fooled by Robert's bass in the cooler trick either. That's an old trick - that is actually a cooler sized for a six pack of sodas or beer. You were thinking he had a 40-60 qt cooler and 26-28 inch bass when in fact that little guy barely make's 6". :D :D
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: gspren on July 21, 2020, 04:09:47 PM
For those that read McManus in Outdoor Life, did you also look for "NINA" in the illustration, that was my wife's favorite part.
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: terrifictimbersllc on July 21, 2020, 04:34:58 PM
"Red trout" looks suspiciously like Woodmizer orange.  Also its lips are too big. ???
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: Walnut Beast on July 21, 2020, 04:46:03 PM
Quote from: YellowHammer on July 20, 2020, 10:17:58 PM
Nah, when I come home from fishin', I'm too tired to do anything but stop by the Zaxby's for some chicken.  

About the only time I keep a fish is when its big enough I have to bring it home to stock my pond.  Like this bass I caught recently that I had to kind of fold it up to get in the cooler for the short trip from livewell to pond.


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When I want fish to eat, I just reach into the freezer and pull out some of my "red trout" fillets.

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We know a good pond to go fishing 🎣 in now 😂. Tasty fish 🐠 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: barbender on July 21, 2020, 11:10:54 PM
Gspren, I had forgotten about NINA in Hirschfeld's drawings, I always used to try to find them 
Title: Re: Trout fishing Maine
Post by: YellowHammer on July 22, 2020, 08:03:41 AM
K-guy, if you catch a trout and it's maybe a little small, let me know, I can help.  Here is my son in law with this nice sized bonito we caught last year.  We use them for bait. 

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However, after removing the movie magic, here is the same fish real size.

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