Here are places where you can fish for striped bass in Maine

A July 2019 story revisits striped bass fishing along Maine’s coast and rivers feeding into the sea. It notes that as the spring bite for trout and landlocked salmon in freshwater fades by July, the striper bite may be peaking. For ocean shore fishing, longtime angler John Kirk advises using Map 5 of the DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer, focusing on river mouths between Yarmouth and Portland, and fishing the outgoing tide because bait gets swept out. He describes stripers as ambush predators that prefer turbulence near “confusion zones.” He recommends staying off rocks, preferring casting flies toward waiting fish, or targeting deeper bottom water with bait.