Visit our downtown Camden Maine location on Main Street this weekend for the second annual Business is Blooming in Camden. All weekend sidewalk sale May 18th and 19th! We’ve got awesome deals on some of your favorite brands – Columbia, Patagonia, Horny Toad, Mountain Hardwear, Dansko, Frye, The North Face and more. Shop local and save on spring and summer items for women and men!
See you this weekend in Camden!
We went out on Sunday in Rockport Harbor for a day of training.
Share It to Win It at Maine Sport! We are doing some fun random giveaways for various products at the store. We’ll post a picture on our Facebook page and anyone that shares that picture gets a chance to win what’s in the picture.
Our first Share It to W
in It is a green Camelbak Eddy spill proof reusable water bottle. The water bottle holds 750 ml of water or a little over 25 ounces, has a spill proof bite valve, is easy to carry with the built in lid loop and BPA free. So head on over to our Facebook page and share this to win it! Make sure you make the share PUBLIC (to the left of the share image button), otherwise we can’t see your name. Drawing is one week after original posting. Good luck!
The Fine Print:
We will ship an item to anyone within the US that wins, so you don’t have to come to the store to get the item. The item you win is the exact item in the picture. Each share is one chance to be drawn to win. Make the share PUBLIC so we can see it! Please be nice and don’t enter multiple times! Employees of Maine Sport and their family members are not eligible to win.
Hi, I’m Paul McGurren, buyer and fishing department manager at our Rockport store. I plan to make this fishing report a regular feature on our website, to serve as a resource for anglers to find info and suggestions on where to fish in Maine. It will also be a place to just tell stories, mostly true, about my and your fishing adventures. I love this stuff - it’s part of what I do every day! I’d love to hear from you, so feel free to leave a reply or ask a question below. This is a work in progress, so please be patient and keep checking back.
MDIFW has been busy already in our area putting fish into our lakes, ponds and rivers. In the past month, they’ve put both brook and brown trout into the St. George, Goose, Medomak, and Pemaquid Rivers. The Megunticook River has gotten brook trout. As for local still water – Levenseler, Bowler, Sanborn, and Sheepscot Ponds have received brook trout, as have St. George, Quantabacook, and Swan Lakes.
I did a day trip to Grand Lake Stream with a friend in early April, and we had a very good day. We landed over a dozen landlocked salmon between us, fishing streamer flies with sinking lines. It was well worth the three-plus hour drive. Other than that I’ve fished locally on the St. George River with pretty good success for the recently stocked trout. Last Thursday, I took my two teenaged daughters to the river in Searsmont and they both caught brook trout. I’ve also caught them there and in Appleton, and this past Monday I got several browns below Sennebec Pond, bouncing nymphs off the bottom. I saw a couple guys with spinning rods while I was there, and they were having a ball as well. They’re nice chunky fish around 14″, and they fight like crazy. Just a reminder – if you fish the St. George River and want to keep trout, there’s a 12″ minimum size regulation, and a one fish limit.
Almost every river in the state is well below seasonal average flow, including our local waters. Of the 76 flowages listed on the USGS Maine website, 69 are below seasonal mean as of May 1. The Ducktrap is less than half of what it should be, as are the St. George and the Sheepscot. The Ducktrap and Sheepscot have been very slow fishing from all the reports I’ve heard. SO PRAY FOR RAIN!!!
I’m beginning to see a few mayflies, and the black flies will be out in force any minute, and that means the best trout fishing of the season is upon us, so get out there!
Fishing season is here, and we’re getting new stuff in weekly!
Last week saw a big shipment of Simms gear. They make the best waders in the business, and we’ve expanded our offerings to include two Gore-Tex models – the Headwaters and the G-3 Guide. Also from Simms, we have wading shoes, vests, rain jackets, and accessories. I’ve just started my eighth season on my Simms waders, and I’ll never buy another brand.
Our big spring St. Croix rod order arrived this week, and the racks are nearly full. We stock six different series of their spinning and casting rods: Triumph, Premier, Mojo, Rage, Avid, and Legend Extreme. And many of them are made in Park Falls, Wisconsin U.S.A.! Among them are four different travel rods, all four-piece with storage cases. Come check them out and cast one on our pond…
New for us this year is a unique line of wading shoes called Korkers. This company has pioneered the development of wading shoes with interchangeable soles. We stock two models, the Redside and the Metalhead, which come with both felt soles and sticky rubber soles. They’re lightweight, offer good support, and give you the option of two different lacing systems as well as the non-absorbent rubber soles.
We’ve gotten in nearly 100 dozen flies in the last month, most from Umpqua Feather Merchants, and some from Maine tyers as well, including some of us who work here at the shop. We have a small selection of Maine-tied tandem streamers for the trollers in the crowd. For the next six or eight weeks, we’ll continue to get shipments of fly patterns appropriate to what’s hatching and being eaten by our finned friends…
If you prefer to tie your own flies, come in and see our fly tying materials, books, vises, tools, hooks and more. We’ve been selling this stuff and teaching tying classes for over twenty years, so we speak the language. If we don’t have it, we’ll do our best to get it!
Our lure selection is good now and will continue to grow as summer nears. We carry a good offering of Maine-made lures from Kennebec Lure Company. We also carry tackle boxes, terminal tackle, rubber worms, squid jigs, mackerel jigs, bait traps, and more. And when you need new line on that spinning reel (which you probably do right now), bring it in and we’ll spin on some fresh Berkley Trilene XL so you might just land that beast!
