Thing are really turning back around in Casco Bay, it's was not a lack of fish that had us frustrated it was a combination of really warm humid nights keeping the water temps high on the mud flats and with the big tides and a good swell the grass lines on the outside islands was almost impossible to get a clean retrieve, the real frustrations was we where and still are seeing lots of fish on the sand flats, we just could not get a clean shot until the last few tides, it looks like some of the grass got push onto shore and will be staying there for a few days at this point hopefully more. Fish wise, i'm herng some good report coast-wide other than the beach angler they are having a real tough time, fishing these water temps and with the big tides last week the beach guys had a real short window on the incoming tide, witch hands down is fish much better then a dropping. Boats anglers in Casco Bay had some good reports, the fly guys that where using there fly line to get under the weeds seemed to be happier than the spin who just took a few days of due to the floating grass mess!!, Started getting broke off by blues this past weekend and some came to the boat with some size, 10 lb range.
I also fished the sand flats S of Portland with the little skiff had a few tides that the weeds where just as bad, but saw lots of fish moving over the sand we had a few hr period with tons of shots at 30 inch plus fish on the sand we boated a few
on a small olive crab,There is plenty of ait and fish around work the bottom of the outgoing and the first 5 ft of incoming tides hard, thing really slow down when the tide starts to swamp out. The Kennebec guys are reporting some good angling a few have turned over to fishing deeper with live bait if that your thing you will most likely do well, a few guys have reported some good fishing on the flats, but like ours being there at the right tide is key!!! Just got areport fro J Ford who was tuna fishing today saw lot of fish mostly large but the guys are reporting catching lots!!!!! of bass in there trolling rigs 3-7 miles offshore and mostly big 20 plus pound fish .
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The rest of the week, I will be working with confluence films on there follow up to Rise and Drift, hope to represent our fishing well but also provide a voice for some of the issue we face with the fishery!!! On that note while we where running in today I saw a buddy poling a flat that been pretty warm up until the last day or two, with water temps in the lower to mid sixties the fishing really turned on for him, but he came off while i was washing down my skiff to show a few photos of a fish that concerned him, It look like Mycobacteriosis by what i understand the fish who have this witch is many can really flare up in the warm waters, please take note of the water temps and if you feel it safe for the fish for quick photo please send it to Bruce Joule at Maine's DMR
bruce.joule@maine.gov
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