Maine Bass Fishing 6/19-6/27-2009

The June trip was met with a hugh rainstorm that took the lake up to some of its highest levels ever. I could not tie up the boat until mid week.

The dock was put out just before we got there and not chained to the shore and you see the results of that. When we got there, the lake was rising about 3" in less than an hour. That bench sits a couple feet in front of the lake edge.

The flow of water was so strong coming in, that parts of the shoreline were floating the opposite direction of the normal current. I was actually fishing up on home flower beds and in trees normally way up on the shore.

There are 2 bridges on the lake that take you to other parts of the lake..upper Pleasant, and the Cobbossee stream. Both had water to almost road levels which limited fishable areas.

I did manage to pull in 120 bass for the trip though, and it was not until the last day where I got 29 where things started to get good.. I had 2 doubles and 3 triples that day, largest was 2 @ 4.5lbs and several 3 and over.

For 3 days the wind blew like crazy to where the lake was just a foamy mess with dock barrels, pieces of docks, and parts of woodpiles floating around. The lake was just a brown ugly mess for most of the week until the last 2 days.