Friday, July 29, 2011

Sometimes the fishing is secondary

It was just as I was afraid of..nothing..nada..not even a hit. Yesterday morning on the Penobscot proved fruitless as far as catching a striper or anything else for that matter. Unless you count a couple of big blobs of seaweed. We, myself and my faithful companion Ray, put in at the Belfast public landing around 6 and were fishing underneath the Bucksport Narrows bridges by 6:30. By the way old one is looking very shabby but with no money to tear it down I guess the state will just let it rot away..


Working our way down river, against an incoming tide we enjoyed some mighty fine scenery and architecture..


About 2 hours into fishing  Ray was pacing from bow to stern and longingly looking at the river bank. I sensed that he needed a break..if you know what I mean..I found a great little beachy area that was protected from tide and  flowage ..Ray was relieved , both psychologically and physically..By the way, speaking of tide and flowage..When the seaweed hit my streamer I put the motor in N and noticed that we were actually drifting up  river , against the river flow (and the Penobscot is no little meandering waterway), a testament to the strength of our everyday, tidal tsunami's .

We continued on to Sandy Point and the wreckage of the old wharf ..


And finally the ledges of Fort Point Lighthouse..

As I said..the fishing is sometime secondary.
 As much as I was hoping to catch ..something..well maybe not the seaweed..The morning turned out to be a resounding success. One of  "those" standout days that will be fondly remembered come next February. 

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for the photos. They are wonderful.
    Just a thought, ever take sea run browns, or brookies in that area?

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  2. Yes Brk Trt I've thought of it . I guess there is a population of trout in the river and the Atlantic Salmon is making a comeback, although they of course can't be purposely fished for..Check out this link and then clik on the July 24 data


    http://www.penobscotriver.org/content/4135/Veazie_trap_data/

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  3. My brother and I fished this section of river in our kayaks 4 years ago and caught over 20 stripers above the Ft and under the powerlines.

    3 years ago we repeated the trip and paddles all the way down to sandy point. As with you we only caught sea weed!

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  4. Rabid..Yes I've read you post regarding it several times. It must have been a blast catching them from kayaks. Perhaps another time will come.

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  5. Glad you had a good day! Nice pics!

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