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The Saltwater Fishing Report is below the chart.
Read below for fishing tips and insider information from Captain Greg!
You can read past reports in our issues archive, and visit Captain Greg's website.
The Southern Maine Saltwater Fishing Season - A New Season
by Captain Greg Metcalf
This beautiful striped bass was caught by 17-year-old Matt Trzcinski from the country of Poland aboard the Libreti Rose on May 24th. Catching fish will like this are an everyday occurrence along the southern Maine shoreline.
Memorial Day Weekend has come and gone and the 2021 saltwater fishing season is in full swing. The local rivers are full of small bait fish, herring as well as shad. School-sized striped bass have moved in along beaches and rivers with a few keepers sized fish in the mix. 2021 is shaping up to be another great fishing season along the southern Maine shoreline.
Kennebunkport: Charter boats in the Kennebunk River are ready to go and looking forward to this year’s fishing season. Mackerel have arrived on the inshore grounds and striper fishing is already starting to take off. The Kennebunk River and Mousam Rivers are already full of school-sized stripers with a few larger ones mixed in.
My boat the Striper Swiper will be at the Breakwater Inn and Spa once again. We start running charters for the season on June 8th. Additional charter boats can be found at the Nontantum Resort, Arundel Wharf, The Yachtsman Marina, as well as Performance Marine.
Wells, Ogunquit: Brandy from Webhannet Bait and Tackle told me the Mousam and Webhannet Rivers are loaded with stripers from 12 inches all the way to the low 30 range. One of her customers reported catching a couple of keeper-size fish up river in the Mousam.
Capt. Greg Metcalf's Striper Swiper
Another store regular has been catching plenty of 18 to 24-inch stripers on 7/8-ounce Atom poppers in the Webhannet River. Offshore fishermen are doing well catching pollock and redfish; the haddock fishing is absolutely fantastic.
York: Captain Phil Breton from Breton Charters reported there are plenty of school-sized bass in the York and Ogunquit Rivers as well as York Harbor and the shoreline all the way to Cape Porpoise. Soft plastic lures and tube and worm rigs have been very productive. The water temperature is now in the low fifty-degree range which means mackerel fishing should improve and become steady.
Goose Rocks Beach: Captain Steve Brettell has yet to try fishing the Goose Rocks shoreline but plans to give to whirl this weekend. He told me there have been reports of small herring and school-size stripers in the area.
Saco River and Saco Bay: Captain Cal Robinson of Saco Bay Guide told me the early report from the Saco River is promising. Stripers are being landed by fly fishermen, spin casters throwing soft plastics, floating sea worms along the river bank and trolling tube and worm rigs. River herring and shad are starting to appear in good numbers as well as mackerel. The striped bass action started to pick up this week from the mouth of the river to the dam in Biddeford. Captain Cal and his boat the Amy Vee runs out of Camp Ellis in the Saco River and is available again this season.
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Captain Greg Metcalf has been published in Sportfishing, The Salt Water Sportsman, Marlin Magazine,
TheFisherman and New England Game and Fish. He is currently the Northeast field editor for the Fisherman Magazine, and a regular contributor to Tourist & Town. He has produced and hosted two very successful fishing videos; Fishing for Giant Tuna, and Rigging Baits for Bluefin Tuna. He runs Atlantic Captain’s Academy which offers Coast Guard-approved courses to Captain’s License candidates. He also runs a charter fishing business aboard his boat, the Striper Swiper, in Kennebunkport. His charter business targets inshore species like striped and bluefish.
Photos courtesy Captain Greg Metcalf.
From June to October, fishing and sight-seeing is offered by Captain Greg Metcalfalong the Kennebunkport coastline aboard the custom 23-foot Striper Swiper.
Captain Greg has more than 30 years of experience sport-fishing in the Northeast.
Call Captain Greg year-round at 401-617-9265, email [email protected]
or visit www.captaingregmetcalf.com
