Where will I be fishing?

The Kennebec River, originating from Moosehead Lake, flows hundreds of miles from northern Maine to the ocean. Bath, located approximately 9 miles inland on this powerful and deep tidal river, lies between Merrymeeting Bay and Fiddlers Reach and is directly accessible to the ocean.

The Lower Kennebec and Merrymeeting Bay are home to striped bass- schoolies to 50-pounders- bluefish, carp, and shad. At the Popham Beach area at the mouth of the river, harbor pollock, bluefish, stripers and mackerel are taken.

The scenery is spectacular along this section of the river, from river lighthouses, to the gorgeous sunsets at Merrymeeting Bay, to the immense warships at Bath Iron Works, to the rocky, often uninhabited shores from Phippsburg to Popham Beach. There is a large variety of shorebirds from sandpipers to Great Blue Herons, eagles, osprey, mergansers, black ducks, and mallards, plus wildlife such as harbor seals, deer, moose, muskrats, and raccoons. Frequently, one may glimpse the protected sturgeon, known to leap onto docks and into moored boats.

Known for its world-class stripped bass fishing, the lower river at times boils with frantic baitfish being driven out of the water as they are herded and eaten by the stripers.