Since last Wednesday it's been darn good. A nice body of fish moved into Casco Bay and they are up on the flats in some pretty shallow stuff. And we're encountering on a regular bases some groups well over the slot range. And they are taking poppers, hollows and even got a fish just over 32 on a crab pattern this weekend, without-a-doubt one my favorite way to fish -- sun, incoming tide and feeding nice size Stripe Bass a crab pattern, and wait it's only late May- early June ??? are we not suppose to be fishing big pattern in the rivers??
The local rivers are loaded with bait and where busy with boats this weekend and the reports at the docks are good the guys I see out often are all smiles!!! they have it dialed and are just stoked on the quality of the fishing we are having so early in the season, But guys lets have a little etiquette out there!!! I had a few boats jump us on the flats!! it put down the fish, that’s fine I can move quickly and find other fish. But for the shore anglers they work hard to find a spots and can not get to good water quickly and it's just f@#kin rude to pressure shore angler if you are in a boat!!!!
The reports to the south are very good and many saying the best they have seen in years, we should keep seeing new fish showing and with stable weather outstanding fish. But not always easy the fish have a ton of food and as we saw with the big winds on Sunday afternoon they are still getting tweaked by water temps we had a 3-4 degree drop around the bay and had to work harder for the eats on Monday and today but every flat we went to we spooked laid up fish, Stealth is always good in skinny water.
I got a call from a friend from the Keys Jon Ain, I fish Permit with him often and have learned a ton, why wouldn't I, he has won the Del brown and the March Merkin and is in the top 5 permit anglers in the world with 304 caught on the fly, with so many toury wins I will give him another, the smallest fish of the week, sorry Jon
A few Open Dates for June 2010 pH: 207-671-4330
8 comments:
Nice report Eric. Good start to the season.
great reports. please keep it coming!
Thanks guys !! if you have reports you want to share from your area pass them along.
We have heard some reports of 30+ striper being caught in the mouth of the kennebec, near popham. Also heard they are in the sheepscot river already but unconfirmed...
Any reports from York County, York river?
headed to mouth of saco today. I will report.
nickyp said...
good reports, been slaying them off the jedi in camp ellis, our biggest being 33 but weve got at least 4-6 nice striper every time weve been out there
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