Fishing tours in Maine and Canada

[Sher23114]

We will be going on the Enchantment of the Seas in Oct. this year to Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Several of us are interested in either a fishing trip or lobster trip. Are there any suggestions as to whom we should use? Has anyone had a really good experience? thanks!

 

 

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Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas

[cruiseguy1016]

Try posting this question on the Ports of Call boards. You may have better luck there.

[Familygoboston]

Most commercial lobster fishermen( and ladies) don't take out charters; it's not like going deep sea fishing, it's very tedious and tough work (hauling traps, emptying them, banding ornery crustaceans and baiting the traps again, and tossing them back into the sea. Then you move 100 feet and do the next one. Its easy to feel ill bobbing in the sea while the smell of the deisel blows back onto the boat if you are inexperienced. BUT, you can get a nice idea about the work lobster fisher persons do and some of the animals under the sea by doing Diver Eds Dive In Theater in Bar Harbor. It's on a lobster boat, you go out on the water and he puts on a humorous and entertaining show, some of it while he's under water!

http://divered.com/

 

If you want a straight deep sea fishing charter, you can google those. Plenty of captains charter, take you out, then set while you fish, helping guests with their catch ( if you get lucky!) Then compare the listings with positive reviews on TA and the port boards!

 

In either case pack very warm clothes for the open ocean including wool or fleece jacket, rain jacket, socks and a cap or hat

 

Good luck!

[Maybaybie10]

Is your cruise going to Portland? I live in Maine and can highly recommend www.luckycatch.com. My niece and nephews were visiting last summer and we all went on one of these in Casco Bay. They take you out on a lobster boat and show you how it's done- the kids loved it and the adults loved the boat ride. They let the kids hold the lobsters and bait the traps and all. It was fun!!

[Maybaybie10]

Here are a few of my kids on the lobster boat!

 

 

[elcuchio24]

They have touristy lobster trips where they'll take folks out on the boat, tool around for a while, and let you pull some traps. But not really like being on a commercial trip, just kind of a nice touristy deal. As someone who toiled wrist deep in herring as a deck hand while I was a kid, not sure why anyone would want to experience the real thing;)

 

As far as deep sea fishing....not a whole lot available. Blues and Striped Bass in the summer months, usually in southern Maine or off Boston. There is still a decent tuna sport fishing scene but that takes days and many miles offshore...not a 1 day trip. Plenty of cod, haddock, about a million different sharks, mackrel, hake......nothing very glamerous I'm afraid!:)