Kennebec River Fishing Report: August 14th, 2009 Another Good Day!!!

The good fishing continues...fresh stripers continue to migrate into the Kennebec river and it's tribs. Today 08/14/09 I had a couple of guys from Sag Harbor, NY aboard for some fishing..Gregory Ferraris and his friend Ed...they enjoyed a very nice pick of fish almost all day long...a few lulls but otherwise steady action...they both caught well over a dozen chunky stripers each!!!we're going to try our luck with offshore fish tomorrow...Some groundfishing and maybe a shot or two at some Bluefin Tuna!!!

Maine Fishing Report: Kennebec River August 13th, 2009

The last two days have been spent chasing Striped Bass on the Kennebec river...long...fun days!!! Check out some of our photo's... a full report will follow soon!!!

Maine Cod Fishing Report August 11th, 2009

It was tough to pry myself from the hot Striper bite that I've been fishing down on the Kennebec...but today 08/11/09 I did an offshore trip with Reid Mayback and his friend Andrew from the Orlando, Florida area....we caught tons of Codfish we also had a double header of ocean pout(aka conger)...The whales were rolling around us including a pod of about 12-15 pilot whales, other whales seen were minke and finback...what a fun trip!!!

Yesterday(08/10/09) I did a double header cod trip the first trip of the day featured a couple from Indiana, Rick Dyer & his girlfriend Crissy. Departing the dock in Thomaston at 6:00am we blasted down river and out past the barrier islands and headed offshore to one of many ledges that are covered up in codfish...not "whale cod" mind you but plenty of smaller market fish. At the first spot it was a race to see whose butterfly jig would reach bottom first...it didn't matter...both jigs were slammed instantly upon reaching bottom...for the next four hours we had nearly non stop action....Arriving back at the dock Rick mentioned that his arms hurt from pulling on so many fish...the kind of hurt that feels good!!!

Trip two featured Pancho Shroder and his three sons from Barcelona, Spain
...carbon copy of trip one

Maine Fishing Report: Kennebec River August 9th, 2009 "HOOK EM"

Harrison Jones from College Station, Texas wearing his Texas Longhorns "HOOK EM" hat...and thats exactly what he ended up doing...I had another long day on the Kennebec river today 08/09/09 with a family from Texas...Walter & Jodi Jones and their children Harrison & Mackenzie fished with me...and boy were they treated to a day they will not soon forget!!! It was just silly out there today...After leaving the ramp in Bath...we headed to a spot that usually produces good numbers of nice fish...Harrison quickly banished the Skunk from the boat...the tide was slack so we scooted out of there to go find some moving water...it didn't take long...At the next stop we really hit the mother load....drift after drift...fish after fish...double hook ups and single hook ups...for the next several hours we slammed the stripers...everyone caught lots of fish and we finished up with the fish still biting. I knew we were going to have a great trip and i'm glad that I got to spend the day with such a nice family....

Maine Striper Fishing Report August 7th, 2009

I fished the Kennebec today 08/07/09 with the Rudner family...Larry, Pam, Leland and Andrew. They've been coming to Maine for many years...They trailer their boston whaler up to John's Bay, near So. Bristol for some fishing...this year and last, they were not having much luck with the stripers..till today that is!!! We got off to a slow start but as the tide started to rip we got into some nice fish...a line of gnarly thunderstorms chased us off the water briefly before we headed back out for some more bent rods...Check out some of the the Rudner family pics.

Maine Bluefin Tuna & Cod Fishing Report August 6th, 2009

The midcoast Maine "nearshore" Bluefin Tuna fishing has been rather unimpressive lately...most of the Tuna being landed locally have been coming from Platts Bank and other offshore areas...way too far for me to go safely...I've done a few tuna trips this past week with poor tuna results...the groundfishing however has had decent action...lots of cod have been boated lately...On 08/06/09 I had Brooke & Sewall Lee aboard with their sons...despite my lack of confidence in the Tuna Bite...they insisted we try anyway...so off we went...we couldn't locate any surface activity but there were bait balls holding deep. Whales were rolling all around the boat, which was pretty cool...also we had a rare encounter with an enormous Basking Shark. We spotted it's huge Dorsal fin from a distance so we slowly idled to intersect it...and it curiously turned to intersect us...we were directly alongside this massive fish for several minutes as it cruised under the boat several times...we estimated the shark to be at least 25 feet as it was clearly longer than the boat...probably in the 4000 pound range...simply amazing. I wish I was able to get better pics to show its collosal size.

We ended up giving up on the Tuna and dropping Butterfly jigs to the bottom...resulting in instant and many, many hook ups. At least we came home with a few fresh filets!!! Great guys that I hope to see again next season.

Maine Saltwater Fishing Report Aug 5th 2009

Today, 08/05/09, I had another outstanding Striper trip on the Kennebec river. Joining me were Steve Tirrell & Chris Lambert...both had mentioned that they had never really had much luck fishing...mostly skunk trips...an hour later a very happy Steve was bragging that he'd already caught more fish on this trip than in his whole life...we were just getting started I said!!!...check out a few of the pics from their trip today.













Yesterday, 08/04/09, I did a Tuna trip with Stan Lupo and friends...dungeon thick fog really hampered the top water tuna search...so we set out the pattern and trolled for several hours around the ledge raising only one or two small fish....without having a real shot at either....Tuna fishing urned into Tuna Wishing, which was super disappointing...We originally had set a plan B of bolting down to the Kennebec for some Striped Bass fishing but it was getting late and I had to see the eye Doc that afternoon(not fun)....We went to plan C instead...we decided to drop butterfly jigs for ground fish....the drops resulting in many, many small cod coming over the rail...not exactly the quarry we set out for but fins nonetheless!!!














08/03/09 I had ESPN VP of Programming, Scott Guglielmino and his two kids aboard for a trip down the St. George river...It was mackerel mayhem as the youngsters pulled on feisty horse macks on ultra light gear for a couple of hours...we then tried to raise a few bluefish for the next hour before calling it quits and heading in to the dock with two tired and happy children...fun times!!!

Kennebec River Striper Fishing Report, Bath Maine: August 2nd, 2009

I Had Bob Maxwell from Kansas aboard today 08/02/09 for the afternoon outgoing tide check out a few of the fish Bob boated...he was amazed at how hard stripers can pull in the fast running currents of the Kennebec compared to their landlocked versions back in Kansas