I’ve made two scouting trips on the Saint Gorge this week and can report an amazing number of eagles, cormorants by the thousands and a few ospreys. The ravens are still in the rookery at the head of the tide and calling to each other steadily. But not one striper to the boat, I did have one half hearted bite yesterday morning but no luck on setting the hook. Water temperatures are almost warm enough (59 up river and 52 in the lower river) and should improve over these next few days with a mid day low tide and sunny skies to warm the flats.
The run of alewives this spring is nothing short of impressive there are large schools staging right below the head of the tide in the river and good numbers of them in Seven Tree and Round ponds. Argy and I travelled to Damariscotta Mills on Tuesday evening to see the fish in the fish ladder and without a doubt it was the largest bunch of fish we have seen there in twenty years of visiting.
I like the Lund Alaskan more every day although I am still settling all of my equipment into the various storage lockers. The trolling motor definitely is a huge improvement over the ones I have used in the past with plenty of power to really move the boat. I am surprised by how long it runs on a single charge of the batteries. The other surprise is how little gas the larger outboard seems to be using. When I ordered a 75hp outboard I expected to nearly double my fuel consumption but at this point it looks like the opposite is true. I am using about half as much as the 40hp did. The real test will be when I am running every day and with more than just two of us on board.
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