For Reservations Call The Maine Saltwater Fishing Hotline 207-691-0745

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Maine Saltwater Fishing Reports Blog

Welcome to the Fish Blog & saltwater fishing reports page of TIDE CHASER GUIDE SERVICE & Capt. George Harris. We're looking forward to providing you with the most up to date inshore saltwater fishing reports on the Maine coast as the Maine Striper Fishing season goes forward into 2019!!! You wont find any generic"cut & paste" reports or info here...Just pure fishing!!!

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We operate our fishing TRIPS in the Mid-Coast region of Maine, from Casco Bay to Penobscot Bay. This area features an astonishing 1000 miles of jagged, pristine coastline. We focus our efforts on the broad reach of the lower Kennebec river estuary & the outer boundaries of Casco Bay...with its countless thousands of acres of untouched saltwater flats, gnarly tides that rip over rocky structure and an intricate maze of backcountry channels, It's a fly & light tackle fishermans nirvana. On any given day we can be found fishing sandy beaches, ocean front ledges, coastal tide marshes or shallow hard bottom flats. Wherever the fish are!!! Whether it's on the fly...pitching plugs or live lining frisky live baits we've got you covered check out our website for all of our trip offerings...and stay tuned for some new trips options for 2019

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing Report August 30th, 2012

Had a great crew aboard today...some west coasters looking to pull on some east coast fish with fly & light tackle gear...Started out the morning with a live bait run which exceeded the capacity of my livewell within 5 min...then off on the hunt for some shallow water stripers...once we arrived on the spot it didnt take long to find the fish but they were big lazy fish that needed to be hand fed...which my crew was happy to do...we boated several nice chunky stripers including an explosive double hook up that tested both the anglers and tackle...after the Stripers I made a beeline for the blues that have been lighting up the out going tide lately...we arrived to the party a little early but it didnt take long before we had wall to wall blues going beserk keeping my crew busy with single, double, triple and quad hook ups with fly and light tackle...eye popping surface feeds are a great way to end any trip...

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing Report August 29th, 2012

Today I had the Bauer family aboard...simply put...We slayed the fish today...Starting out with some Chunky shallow water stripers then moving on to some jaw dropping bluefish blitzes...yes the fishing is pretty good right now!!!

Monday, August 27, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing August 27th, 2012

Over the several days we have had some pretty good fishing...from shallow water stripers to blitzing bluefish tearing up the lower Kennebec river...September is right around the corner which means my favorite month to fish almost here...if you have not yet booked your tide...please contact us asap!!!

Friday, August 24, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing August 24th, 2012

Yesterday I had Dennis Kelly back aboard to Tag some Striped Bass...We got started around 530am and ran down the river to the edge of a flat that has been holding a few decent fish...We worked the area for 10-15 minutes before noticing a blitz of bluefish up on the surface...we chased the birds around for an hour boating numerous blues and getting bit off several more times...After the blues disappeared we went on the hunt for stripers...they didnt come as easily as the blues but we ended up catching several nice solid fish that Dennis tagged & released...where will those fish end up??? hopefully on the end of your line very soon. Note: if you do happen to catch a tagged fish, please take the time to return the tag to the address thats printed on the tag...lots of valuable info is gained from these tagging studies

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing Charters Report August 21st, 2012

The good fishing continues...Today I had Gerry Hansell and his family aboard for some great action...At the first stop we blacked out the livewell with macks...At the second stop...we put those macks to very good use...Our baits got smashed over and over again and we ended up boating several nice Stripers including the powerful 32"er pictured below by Gerry's 9 year old son Robert!!! What a day!!!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing Report August 20th, 2012

The best Striper fishing of the year is going to take place in the next 6-8 weeks...today was a prelude of the good fishing that lies ahead...

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Maine Bluefish Report August 9th, 2012

The Bluefish are in the Kennebec in Force...We spent a good portion of the morning sight casting to them on the flats today...Did not catch any Stripers today but this nice Bluefish crashed the party..
















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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Maine Striper Report August 8th, 2012

The Bluefish have arrived in the Kennebec which has made for some exciting fishing...The Bluefish have been ransacking every mackerel school for miles which has made for some interesting bait runs for our livebait Striped Bass trips....Today I had first time Striper angler Josiah Poole from Ct aboard...the bite was slow but he was persistant and was rewarded with a beautiful shallow water striped bass caught in gin clear water under bright sun...congrats Josiah for a great catch!!!
























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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing August 4th, 2012

David Howard visiting Maine from Virginia on a quest to catch fish in all 50 states can now check the "vacationland" state off the list!! We left the marina dock in Bath at 5am this morning for a livebait striper trip...Catching bait was tough this morning most likely due to the arrival of the big schools of jumbo bluefish...The bait that we did catch was put to good use as David clobbered some hefty stripers in crystal clear shallow water to complete another great morning on the water!!!



















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Maine Striper Fishing August 3rd, 2012

John, Justin & George visiting from Switzerland each caught Stripers up on the flats...the boys first ever trip to the salt!!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

This morning I had Bill Farland back aboard and with him were his guests Joe & Max from the Los Angeles area...the catch of the day was a Bluefish that Bill had hooked on a sabiki rig that we were using to catch mackerel for bait...we had two others hooked up at the same time but the other two broke off as expected...Bill lucked out by boating this toothy demon using 6 pound test leader!!! Crazy catch on the sabiki!!Joe & Max also boated some Stripers too!!
























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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Maine Striper Fishing Report August 1st, 2012

This morning I had a crew aboard that fishes with me a couple of times a year during this week in August...We left the Marina dock in Bath under the cover of darkness with a light rain falling and cruised downriver to a shallow flat that has been holding some fish....The first cast with a chugger drew a huge strike and hookup followed by a second hook up courtesy of a striper that annihilated sebile magic swimmer(that was a gift from my clients yesterday...thank you Steve!!) to complete the double header hookup...both fish were in the 30" range...a few more casts and we stowed the rods and headed out to fill the livewell with macks which we came to the boat quite easily...another short run with a blacked out live well and we were on some productive grounds where we had several violent bone jarring strikes but didnt get tight to a fish for one reason or another...after severeal swings & misses we decided that our luck WOULD change at the next spot, and it did, here we finished up the trip with style on some big fish smashing outr live macks in crystal clear shallow water!!!...yes the fishing is pretty good right now!!!



















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