Maine striper fishing

First off need to apologize for a lack of reports on the blog, I have been  guiding one to two trips day all summer and add in a filming for Howard Films who brought you ( Chasing Silver) new project, simply I have have been on the water to much to get anything else done.. A quick view looking back on August just gives me smiles!! the sight fishing held up really strong and we just boated a good amount of f nice fish on crab patterns in the shallows. For the most part my entire summer has been in the skinny stuff and when I look back at how few hrs that went on the outboard versus how many pairs of sun/poling gloves I went through, I would be more than happy to see a season like again... Looking forward things will change small bait is starting to drop out of the rivers as well few schools of adult pogies are in the Casco Bay and  a few areas  the peanuts have made a showing and offered a few good surface feeds. In the shallows we are really starting to see the fish school up more and more. you can still get them to eat your crab or shrimpy pattern pretty good but the tight groups and starting to play follow the leader and looking for the few fish that wonder off and presenting to them seem to get the good look and often eats. I had an angler from london out this past week who spends a ton of time in Cuba chasing permit a very good skinny water angler he went 8 fish boated on 12 cast on the sand flats fishing a small crab on the sight~ thats fun stuff!!!!  The good sun angle is shorting with the days but with in the schooled up fish are slowly starting to show themselves with group feeds we should see some very good fishing along Maine's coast i would think the best we have had for some years, but you wont know if your not on the water...            

Capt.Eric Wallace
207-671-4330
www.coastalflyangler.com