The past 10 days has seen some real ups and down in air temps, from near 90 to a early morning low of 37degrees. But the good news the open water temps really did not drop off to much with the hard Northery winds during the cold snap and the Portland Maine bouy is holding around 57. This is a little closer to the average for late June ,so the water temps, amount bait and most importantly the amount of Stripe Bass are just a little ahead of the past few seasons, offering up some consistant fishing during the right tides and when the weather works with us we have seen some very solid fishing!! and reports down the coast support a likewise finding. We have had multi tides with over 20 fish on the flats with fly and largest fish is just short of 38 inches, lots of schoolies around and the Freeport area had a big group of large Bluefish push through for a few days, causing the fun havoc they know how to provide, nice to have that in the mix the first week of June. With the amount of larger bait in Casco Bay and it rivers we are sure to only see more good action in the weeks to come, setting us up for a good solid season!!!!
What's Working
Flywise we have been having good success on everything from darker hollow patterns to sight fishing small crabs, I feel the fish are in the mindset to eat, and if you set the boat angles up for good casting/retrive angles you can get these well fed fish to open up. Same goes for the light tackle angler fishing soft plastics, if your not catching fish, I would not waste a ton of time changing flies or lures out, instead think about your aproach to the fish. For the anglers wading the saltwater here in Maine I would snoop around some of the chatboards those guys are mostly walking the beaches and will give you some info to work with.
Happy Fishing and GO Bruins!!!!!!
Capt Eric Wallace
207-671-4330
Maine, FL Keys
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