Maine Striper Fishing


Airflo Sniper Line

Some of you who fished with me last August or September here in Maine got a chance to cast these new sniper lines from Airflo, I had a few test lines on my skiff and it was simply a home run!!!!

An aggressive short head Striper line.  Airflo took the popular 40+ saltwater series and made it even better.  The new Dual Head taper makes the line perform fantastic at all distances.   It's just that, two heads in one.  The front head has a larger diameter to load the rod for short casts, but the back head retains enough mass and weight for the "Long Bomb" caster.  In short this line is designed to make it easy to cast modest distances without sacrificing the ability to cast to the horizon.  This line will not only get you out there... it will get you out there casting the "Big" stuff.




This upcoming Friday evening join us at LL Beans hunt and fish store for a focused talk on Maine Striper Fishing  and fly tying demos. The focus will be on fishing stripers on the flats bring your stories and vise we look forward to seeing around 7 pm at LL Beans hunt fish store.

Capt.Eric Wallace
207-671-4330
www.coastalflyangler.com
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Maine Striper Fishing Reports


Sharing flies and ideas is one of the better parts of fishing, and i cant tell you how lucky I feel to have had some great minds on my skiff over the years!! This past fall a random box came in the mail from Lefty Kreh there was a bunch of flies in it and one particular pattern that had me very excited, We fished it for the first time for stripers here in Maine the season before and while one my boat this past summer I explained I tried to duplicate it from memory but was not getting to sit in the water column like his,Well lefty having a memory like a trapped door sent a few of the pattern this past fall and after a few bath tube test I think I got it close, of course I am not using the flies he tied they are in a box with the hand wrote address on my desk and will remain there!!! 

What really got me in the mindset to share this story was another Angler who I fish quite a bit over the last few years and really has become a good tier in his own right, with all the trade shows going on this year and the latest greatest tackle there was one thing that really stuck out was the quality of buck and tail and the colors that are out there. Joe Herbert the angler mentioned above based out of Rhode Island, sent some really cool Hollow patterns this week tied with two tone buck tail, fun stuff and you are getting the feeling by the emails and ph calls anglers are getting ready for the 2012 fishing season.

I have a talk and Fly Tying Demo at LL Beans here in Freeport on FEB 17 
Focus is Skinny Water Striped Bass Fly Fishing in Maine, hope to see a few of you there and come with some flies and ideas great to work off of each other..                
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Maine Striper Fishing 2012



What are the best tides is one of the most asked questions we get here at Coastal Fly Angler.It is that time of year anglers start to make plans for there travels, Tarpon, Permit Bonefish,Redfish and yes Striped Bass on the flats, tides play an important role in a successful trip, look at it this way we can not predict the weather 6 months out but we can predict what tides will fish well. Feel free to drop us a email or a Ph call anytime to discuss the prime striped bass tides for the upcoming 2012 striper season here in Maine. 207-671-4330
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Maine Striper Fishing Reports 2012


Finally getting around to offering a fly tying class/talk on shallow water striped bass tactics,When- Febuary 17th 2012 7 pm Where- Host LL Bean Freeport ME, look forward to seeing you there and hering some fun fish stories from the past season.Focus will be teaching hollow tied decivers and merkin style crabs, talk will be fishing these patterns in the shallows.Also mark your calender for early March as the Fly Fishing Flim Tour is back in Maine more info later in the week..
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Maine Striper Fishing 2012 Product Reviews


New Weapon!!! Airflo's Ridge Clear family is just that, the ultimate stealth line that won't spook fish, shoots well and handles superbly while remaining supple even in cold water,from the FL Keys to Casco Bay Maine Airflow has some great lines to cover all the salt anglers needs..

Capt.Eric Wallace
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Maine Striper Fishing 2012

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Blitz $49.95

From Casco Bay to The Outer Banks, they shot photographs, burned video footage, and interviewed an eclectic cast of anglers, guides, merchants, and fly tiers. They filled rent cars with sand, they fought ill-mannered dogs in cheap motels, and they boosted convenience store profits in nine different states.

Departure Publishing is proud to present The Blitz, Fly Fishing the Atlantic Migration. Through McDonald’s turn of phrase, and Brown’s eye for imagery, they have created an engaging and comprehensive view of the beaches, tidal rips, birds, bait, and gamefish of the Eastern Seaboard. This is not a how-to-where-to guidebook; it’s an offbeat celebration of the unique and vibrant fly-fishing culture of striped bass, bluefish, tuna, bonito, false albacore, redfish, and other nearshore pelagics.

Reviews of Blitz
The fishermen profiled here are fascinating, and if you fly fish the Northeast salt, you’ll love this book. Given all the great photos, this would make a nice coffee-table book, assuming that you have a coffee table. Something tells me that many of the anglers profiled in the book may not have one; in that case, a tying bench will do. – MidCurrent


Connect by Confluence films



CONNECT introduces a number of new locations, exotic species, and compelling characters that epitomize and exemplify the sport of fly fishing. Shot on location in Japan, Yellowstone National Park, the Yukon Drainage of Alaska, the flats of Cuba, the coast of Maine, and in the wilds of Tanzania, Africa, this feature-length movie will once again transport viewers around the world in search of new waters and exhilarating travel experiences. CONNECT features well-known anglers Greg Vincent, Jeff Currier, Jimmy Bartschi, Craig Mathews, Masa Katsumata, Brian Porter, and Captain Eric Wallace, more than a dozen different fish species, both freshwater and saltwater.
As with DRIFT and RISE before, the cinematography, sound, and feel of CONNECT come together in a visual masterpiece that promises to re-set the bar for fly fishing films.

Hat and T-shirts with the Coastal Fly Angler Logo...Price 12.00-20.00 call in your order 207-671-4330.
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Maine Striper Fishing

Photo. From the new movie by Confluence Films called "Connect" by Jim Klug and Chris Patterson of confluence films-- Join Fly Fishing in Maine and CCA Maine for a advanced fundraising showing on Oct 28 at the Frontier Cafe and Theater in Brunswick Maine, all proceeds will be split between Stripers Forever Myco Research Project and Alewife population project here in Maine. For more info see www.flyfishinginmaine.com



Mid - Late October fishing report <)))<
October has brought a mixed bag of weather and fishing,I have seen the best surface action in years and also some down right great sight fishing in near record heat and a 8 lb bluefish after scraping ice from the poling platform and casting deck, there has been some windy days and some glassy evening sessions. After all its mid October now in the northern range and what fish you find day to day- enjoy- the colors on the island are beautiful and you pretty much have the water to yourself I did 6 guide trips in a row without seeing a single angler at any point during the trip, just how I like it!!! Overall you have to be on there spot they are no longer spread out and are in full on schooled up mode and on the move, the fish we found sight fishing where ultra skittish and swimming very tight head to tail, dark backed and when they decided to eat the group would jump in on it as a team effort- aka mini blitz,  there is plenty of bait and water temps are reasonable  to keep fish around but as we all know our population up here is not that big and when they feel it time to leave our
season becomes day to day and thats where we are at.. enjoy the search!!!
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Flats fishing report for Striped Bass: Capt Eric Wallace


From Maine to Cape Cod Bay there are both big flats and small shoreline pockets that offer good skinny water fishing, and big tides that average 8 to 10 feet. The coast from Chatham, Massachusetts to Long Island, New York offers the same type of water but smaller tides, only 2 to 4 feet or so. Only Long Island has tide ranges up to 7 feet.

The bigger the tides the faster fishing conditions will change. In locations with a 2-foot tide a flat might be fishable for the entire day; a flat with a 10-foot tide will be most stable around low tide, sometimes for several hours. Once the strong flow begins be prepared to move with the flow so as not to get trapped by the rising water when wading.

An early incoming tide will be the most productive in many locations. Stripers feel more at ease and as the flats cover there is food like dead sand eels, clams and crabs that are easy targets for stripers. This is especially true where tides are biggest. However, a falling tide in places that trap baitfish along edges and inside basins and drainage gullies can be excellent, too. Small creekmouths attract fish on a falling tide and they move upstream into the creek in search of food as the tide rises. Some small creeks are crystal clear and will remind the trout angler of Western spring creeks. Generally, big-tides mean a short fishing window.

Sand eels are the best baitfish for northern flats because they burrow and remain in the sand on dry flats through low tide. As water returns, some baitfish die and lay on the bottom. A flat where you see dead sand eels at low tide could be a hotspot, so stick around. Crabs are numerous on all flats and both crabs and shrimp are abundant inside creeks and estuaries. I do very well with a sparse, white Deceiver, and an epoxy sand eel fly made with purple Fluorofibre over cream Fluorofibre with some flash. Tie these flies 3 to 5 inches long. The lady crab, or calico, is a very important food source in the shallows; a reddish Del Brown Crab Fly is a good match for these. Any light tan bonefish fly 1 1/2 to 2 inches long will match both the common shore and sand shrimp that live on the flats inside most estuaries. And lightly weighted 3- to 4-inch Clouser Minnows in tan-and-white or olive-and-white are also very popular.

Top times for sight fishing are from mid May through early July. Then you can depend on good sunlight and the lower water temperature brings hungry fish onto the flats and into the creeks to feed. Some of the colder water locations from northern Massachusetts to Maine can have good sight fishing into August. In September and early October big flats might hold fish at times but the light is not as good as in summer. The key to good daytime fishing is cool water and abundant food sources.

In the spring there are places when you can sight cast and catch large numbers of smaller stripers, but the real fun begins when casting to big stripers. You will earn each fish, and you will remember each one long after the memory of a 20-fish day has faded.













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