Henry and I hooked up again with Captain Dave Guerrard of York Maine for another 1/2 day with him and RipTide charters. We met and fished the Merrimack River in NewberryPort, Ma from 0630-1230, 23 June. We began by fishing the obvious tidal rips in the mouth of the river and caught fish immediately. We had equal success throughout the day casting 7 inch off-white slugs and a 5-inch pencil poppers with medium weight inshore spin casting rigs. Henry caught the first striper of the day at 24" on the pencil popper. I followed suit shortly after with a 30" on the Slugo. We were generally able to follow the bait fish by zoning in on the seabirds as they feasted on the churning bait balls. We ventured out the mouth of the Merrimack for an hour and caught several as the water was piling up the bait fish on the north side of the jetty on the north mouth of the river-mouth. Henry ended the day with 2 stripers and a gorgeous 30" bluefish...what a fighter & I had 3 stripers all in the 30 inch range. Captain Dave caught another couple which he let us reel in for fun. Towards the end of the charter I moved to Dave's 9 wt fly rod with full sinking line, I casted (with some challenge) a large kitchen sink silver minnow fly. I had 2-3 nice hits but couldn't hook a striper on it....next year!http://www.mainestriperfishing.com/fishing_reports.html
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