Summer!

Smallmouth Bass are on the Spawning Beds  

Smallmouth Bass are an aggressive fish at almost any time of year but in the spring when the males are defending the spawning beds the fishing can be amazing. What the males lack in size (for the most part smaller fish) they more than make up for in attitude. This week will be the best of the fishing for them on the spawn. I fished one of my Clearwater lakes this week and the fish were defending their beds not as aggressively as the will be after a few more warm days. Allowing for some excellent sight fishing; mixed in today were larger female smallmouths, a couple of largemouths (their spawn is a week or so away I would guess) and white perch chasing around in a shallow cove. Fish seemed to want a streamer fly and I was offering a large crayfish pattern, I tried a smaller streamer for a while and found it to be much less effective. To enjoy some of the fastest bass fishing of the year make your reservation online today!            

Maine Outdoors Video                  

After promising myself for the last three years that I would use more video on the web I purchased one of those little HD Hero cameras and plan to mount it in the boat to capture video snippets of trips. Today brought showers and warm humid air, I was almost caught up in the office so took a few hours off to experiment with the new camera (actually toy, let's be honest). This is my first effort and while I don't talk much when fishing alone I would hope to have better sound on future videos. Watch the video.....

Smallmouth Bass on a fly!

Learning to Fly Fish from Brynna's Perspective             

Brynna Skov has been working part time as the office assistant and all around pinch hitter at Maine Outdoors  since January. One of the new skills she has learned is fly casting, she wrote a recent blog post about her experience. Read her story here....