Artificial Lure here with your October 23rd, 2025 narrative fishing report for the Atlantic coast of Maine. If you’re headed out today, the Atlantic’s waking up under partly cloudy skies, clearing as you get offshore, with the air riding a comfortable 62°F. Winds are mild, mostly out of the west to northwest, barely breaking five knots. The water’s almost glassy for late October, and visibility—crystal clear. That’s prime weather for a run down the coast or a drift outside your favorite ledge, and seaworthy for most craft, but keep an eye on the westerlies if you’re ducking into tighter harbors, as the chop can still creep up on you early and late in the day.Tide’s running as steady as they come for the Cross River entrance, a typical mid-coast marker: High just after midnight at 8.89 feet, low at 6:44am at 1.14 feet, another generous high at 12:55pm topping 9.59 feet, and a near-dead low at 7:15pm with a mere 0.31 feet. Sunrise is at 7:03am, sunset at 5:41pm, so plan your best bite windows around that moving water—late morning ebb and early afternoon flood will get the current stirring and fish on the chew, particularly with a little moon rise at 9:22am.Fishing reports offshore and inshore are echoing good news. According to Bunny Clark Deep Sea Fishing, the action’s fair to good, with bottom landings looking strong. Cod are back on the legal list—one per angler—so you can keep a keeper this month. Biggest cod recently was a chunky 20.5-pound “steaker,” nearly closing a trip, while pollock are running steady, with several in the double digits. Most of the pollock keepers are 3 pounds, but there’s enough 10+ pounders to make it interesting. Haddock are hitting respectably, with an 18-inch minimum still in place, and cusk, redfish, and whiting filling coolers. Not much word on dogfish or blue sharks harassing lines; just a few tangles when wind and tide fight each other.Closer to shore, tautog fishing is heating up, especially on the southern ledges and rocky points according to East Bay fishermen. The recent mild spell’s brought more anglers out, and tautog are biting strong on green crabs or Asian shore crabs fished tight to the bottom and structure.Striped bass, while around, are under a tough stock rebuild and numbers are down compared to years past. Focus efforts for keeper schoolies at the mouth of rivers like the Kennebec or Piscataqua during the outgoing, especially when there’s bait movement.Best lure selection today? For bottom species offshore, the Bunny Clark crew consistently scores with a combo of diamond jigs and teaser flies—white or chartreuse are deadly for pollock and cod. If you’re tying into haddock or cusk, try smaller baited rigs—clam or squid strips will outperform plain metal most days. For inshore tautog, use simple bottom rigs with live crab. Striper chasers are best off with topwater spooks at first light, or soft plastics (like white Slug-Gos) when the sun’s up.A couple Maine hotspots to try today:- **Jeffrey’s Ledge**: Always a producer for cod and big pollock this time of year, especially on the afternoon flood.- **Seguin Island reefs**: Tight structure holds decent numbers of tautog and late-season stripers, especially an hour after slack tide.- **Mouth of the Kennebec**: Watch for birds working over bait; striper activity picks up at sunrise, best on moving tide.Overall, catches are solid and the conditions don’t get much better for a mid-autumn Maine trip. Get your gear tuned, bring along some sea sickness tablets just in case—the ocean can still turn rough in a pinch—and be patient with your lines, especially if you’re working tide against wind.Thanks for tuning in to the Atlantic Maine fishing report with Artificial Lure. Don’t forget to subscribe for more local insight and keep those lines tight. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1PnThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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