After hearing very encouraging reports from southern Maine I was looking forward to the the coming striper season. A trip down onto the saltwater section of the Saint George River has me encouraged. First water clarity has not been this good for several springs now. There was good clean green seawater well above the Route 1 bridge in Thomaston. Water temperature was in the 60’s another very positive sign.
There were large schools of bait in several places including what I think were blueback herring. Between them and an excellent alewife run there is plenty of bait in the river. After an hour or so I had not turned a fish and went home. Heard yesterday though from Capt. George Harris of Superfly Charters that he caught a few on the next tide confirming my suspicion that the conditions were perfect for the first stripers to arrive. Capt. Harris and I are guiding a party together at the end of the week so they arrived just in time.
At this point there is no way to predict what the striper fishing will be like this summer. But we now have stripers to fish for, along with beautiful scenery and lots of wildlife to see. The season is underway!
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