• Maine's Coastal Fishing Report: Early Spring Stripers, Haddock, and Flounder Opportunities

  • Apr 21 2025
  • Durée: 3 min
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Maine's Coastal Fishing Report: Early Spring Stripers, Haddock, and Flounder Opportunities

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  • Artificial Lure here with your Monday, April 21, 2025 fishing report for the storied waters of Maine’s Atlantic coast.

    We’re kicking off the week with the ocean air crisp and cool. Today’s sunrise came at 5:36 AM and sunset will settle in around 7:28 PM. The weather is classic early spring on the Maine coast: expect temperatures hovering in the high 40s to mid-50s, with the wind out of the southeast at 10 to 15 knots, and a chance of light drizzle mid-morning tapering off by noon. Seas are running about 2 to 4 feet—manageable for most vessels but dress warm and bring your slicker.

    Tidal action today features a morning high tide around 7:10 AM and a low tide just after 1:15 PM, followed by the second high almost exactly at sunset. These bigger tidal swings are stirring up bait and tempting the more active feeders in nearshore waters.

    With the water still chilly, fish aren’t as aggressive, so slow your presentation and target depths where things warm just a tick quicker, especially in protected coves and estuaries. Over the last week, local boats and shore anglers have been reporting early runs of schoolie striped bass trickling in—mainly up the Saco River and scattered along the Scarborough Marsh edges. They’re a bit skittish, but plug tossers and fly anglers launching smaller white or olive soft plastics and clouser minnows have found luck. Drop a bloodworm or sandworm under a bobber and the odds go up, especially at dawn or dusk when the tide is swinging strongest.

    Haddock, meanwhile, are putting on a show offshore. Deep water ledges off Old Orchard Beach and out toward Jeffrey’s Ledge have given up great numbers of keeper haddock this month. Boats on the drift with tipped cod rigs using clams or squid are easily filling coolers. There’s even been a handful of cod caught and released in the mix, but remember regulations lock out keeping cod right now. Also keep an eye out for the open of the Northern Gulf of Maine sea scallop fishery, which reopens today with a big quota and should draw traffic and opportunity for those licensed to target them.

    Winter flounder are beginning to nose into shallow mud flats around Portland Harbor and Casco Bay. If you want dinner, a simple bottom rig with a strip of clam or seaworm will do the trick. Upriver, the first tautog have started showing around rocky pilings, and green crab is the top bait if you can get some.

    Hot spots to try today include the outflow at Pine Point in Scarborough for striper action and the ledges off Biddeford Pool if you are chasing haddock. For a mixed bag, Portland’s Commercial Street piers give you access to mackerel, schoolies, and the occasional flounder.

    That’s the lay of the land, folks. Bundle up, work those tides, and fish slow and low. Good luck out there.
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