Returned a few days ago from 7 days of hitting Ponds in Maine. We fished for largemouth, smallmouth and even caught a few Brook Trout in the process. It was fantastic! Got my biggest smally (5lbs) on a Sammy and my best day was 50 smallmouth most of which were on tubes.

The largemouth fishing was awesome as well! We had alot of rain and cloudy skies but the hundreds of bass that we caught made it tolerable.

Gas costs were outrageous!! We towed a 16 ft boat with a 5hp on it behind a full sized dodge ext cab and it cost us $935.75 in gas. Having your own boat is the only way to go on a trip like this. After splitting the cost of gas and considering we stayed with family the trip was actually cheap.

I thought it was pretty cool to sit back and decide what we wanted to catch and then pick a pond that has that bass type in it. Next year I will be sporting a flyrod and go after some of the trout in these ponds and Brooks.