Maine Striper Fishing Reports and Guided Fishing

The fish are really starting to spread out, and some are moving into there summer patterns, while others are still heading to the rivers for the bigger bait. There is lots of Blue Back Herring in the rivers now and the Juvi Herring and sand eels are making for some fun surface feeds around the bay if you hit it right!!!! timing has been key most of the week we have been meeting at the dock by 345-4 am the first light bite has been Best then the low incoming has been good. Thursday it just seemed as the fish just took the day off for us? goofy winds and big tides Fri was much much better. Post trip on Friday my wife and kids met me at the dock for a trip out to the beaches on the outer islands (See Photo above), I personally have not been able to fish much with my guide schedule, so when your wife says lets go and you have incoming tide, I was stoked to say the least!!!I was looking forward to trying out some crab patterns I have been working on and was hoping for some shots on the sand flats. The fish above was caught mid day in the bright sun on an olive EP fiber striper merkin a 12 ft leader and floating line my favorite setup for this style of fishing, I'm glad the crab has become more popular with anglers in the NE but it seems many have a hard time fishing it from a boat they just want to cast at every fish they see and strip away, for the most part that just spooks them while some of the beach anglers are doing well with bigger crab patterns fished real slow!!! hoping the fish comes to it. What we have been doing is a little more permit style and I'm lucky to have so many customer who also fish permit and Bonefish what we look for is a small group of fish on the sand that have seperated from the bigger 10 plus fish groups you spook one you may shut down your flat but 2-4 fish moving along they are not being so social with the others and are not playing follow the leader,often these are the one's we can get to eat, We are placing a small crab near that small group they will twitch and spook a little bit but as soon as they see a small crab droping one or more will come back, read the eat from there and good luck!! Being able to fish sand flats this way when you have the right tides and sun angles really makes Casco Bay such a cool fishery!!!!!There's only a hand full of polling skiffs in the bay that can really take advantage of fishing the sand flats the right way here in Maine so please remember guys and I see all the time a center counsel pulls in on the flat two anglers start pounding the water then then they start there motors up and leave without coming tight, just to screw up the flat for the walk wade anglers and the few skiffs guys that have spent the time dialing this style of fishing in Not Cool!!!! and Keep those trolling motor at slow speed on the sand they really do spook fish!!! PS start having wire with you those toothy guys are starting to show in the 6-8 lb size!!!

Some of the afterwork crew at the dock, where saying they had some slow fishing on Friday afternoon fishing near the flats on the incoming, Guys the mud was exposed to air temps up 85 and bright sun, hell yes the mud flats are going to be slow with those temps,even on a strong incoming tide.

Rumors have it the kennebec is holding up and fishing well into the mid day give it a try there are some guides up there with some open dates that can show you some great water befor the catch and kill season starts up there in July.


Open AM trips Thru July 15 th
June 27
July 3rd Half tide AM only
July 12
July 15