The last couple of years, the striper fishing in Maine has been poor.
Hopefully this season will be better.
There's a resident population out of Merrymeeting Bay, but the migrant fish are not making it that far up the coast.
A couple of books that may interest you are Ed Mitchell's
Fly Rodding the Coast and Lou Tabory's
Inshore Fly Fishing
Here's a link to Ed Mitchell's site
http://www.flyroddingthecoast.com/
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