This morning was consistently great fishing for stripers. If this is not the best that Maine has to offer I can’t imagine what is. I had two clients one who only wanted to fish surface poppers for stripers and the second who is learning to fly fish. He can cast a fly but not very far and certainly without much accuracy. We started it off in the harbor where we had a few fish on the first drift. Including a 23” fish that they kept for supper and a few other smaller ones.
The striper fishing continues to be quite good on the Saint George. Today was a little slower but I think that the slack high tide had a lot to do with that. It was a nice run of fat fish though. A couple fish were big enough to be kept if we had wanted to. The birds were hanging around but did not look like they were expecting bait to be chased to the surface. I guess even gulls have standards.
This morning was slower fishing than I have had the rest of the week in three hours only a dozen fish but a couple of nicer fish in the bunch. I think the slow fishing was due in part to being near the slack high tide. I have always had better luck on lower tides. We’ll see what happens on tomorrow mornings tide. The gulls are hanging around on the likely ledges waiting for the stripers to chase the bait to the surface so I know that the baitfish are still around and there are stripers to chase them to the surface. Eternal optimisim!
