Fishing near Wells in York County, ME

3.02 Rating based on 12 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Tiger Trout, Largemouth Bass, Atlantic Mackerel, Brook Trout, Bluegill, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 71
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 24
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8/13/06 - Wells Beach, ME near Wells

8/13/06 - Wells Beach, ME

2006 1St Fluke - 10in
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8/13/06 - Wells Beach, ME near Wells

8/13/06 - Wells Beach, ME

2006 - 15in 1lb 2oz
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8/13/06 - Wells Beach, ME near Wells

8/13/06 - Wells Beach, ME

2006 - 19.5in 2lbs 14oz
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Saco River Old Orchard Beach ME near Wells

Saco River Old Orchard Beach ME

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Boat Launch Old Orchard Beach ME near Wells

Boat Launch Old Orchard Beach ME

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Blues off MYJOY near Wells

Blues off MYJOY

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Top Fishing Spots near Wells

Drake Island
Drake Island

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Moody Beach
Moody Beach

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Wells Harbor
Wells Harbor

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Ogunquit River
Ogunquit River

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Mousam River
Mousam River

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Bauneg Beg Lake
Bauneg Beg Lake

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Wells Area Fish Species

Recent Wells Fishing Reports

8/13/06 - Wells Beach - Wells, ME Fishing Report Jun 18, 2008

8/13/06 - Wells Beach - Wells, ME

Wells Beach, ME -

***Another old trip*** Only time Ive fished here. At the time I got my biggest Striper and also got my 1 and only Fluke....

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Bellamy Res. Fishing Report Nov 12, 2015

Bellamy Res.

Willand Pond -

Large body of water with plenty of shallows in the warmer months, to shallow in many places, but fantastic as the water deepens for Bass, Crappies, an...

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Old Orchard Beach Fishing Report Aug 10, 2009

Old Orchard Beach

Old Orchard Beach ME -

Caught 2 Eells, 2 good size stripers and blues...

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striper Fishing Report Jul 02, 2008

striper

Pisc river -

we have been out 3 times and caught every time on live mackerel

all were between 21 and 24...

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Blue Fish on a nice day finally! Fishing Report Jul 29, 2009

Blue Fish on a nice day finally!

Pisc mouth -

Caught a nice blue live linning a mac off of White Island. Fantastic evening weather wise! ...

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Bait Fish Fishing Report Jul 29, 2009

Bait Fish

2KR BUOY -

chummin for bait fish
Put in at Traip Academy and left dock at 3:30pm Put chum in at 4:00 and were in Mackerel within 30 minutes....

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Baits and Tackle used near Wells

Check Prices

  • Top Water Red Tube and Sand Worms
  • Live linning a mackerel
    I did not weigh it or measure it! I just wanted to get it back in the water as soon as possible before it ate my fingers! It was the biggest blue I ever caught though.
  • Caught the big one on a bass assasin rubber shad! Arkansas color.
  • full crawler
  • Watermelon Dinger
  • Wacky rigged 4" senkos

    White
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • i started out using nightcrawlers,i had some bites.i ran out of worms and tried using salmon eggs. i caught 3 trout with the eggs in the pool by the dam.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Mackerel

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 5 inch senkos

Creature Check Prices

  • Berkley Havoc Pit Boss

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • zara spook puppy
  • Zara spook puppy

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • phoebe lure

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • crawfish lure
  • crawfish plastic lure

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • Caffiene Shad

Crankbait Check Prices

  • deep runner crankbait....
  • Koppers Live Target Rainbow Smelt
  • minnow type Lure
  • tried one of my new Lures. small bait fish looking Lure

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • tried a few different lures b4 this one none was working...small spinnerbait
  • i was fishing a homemade tandem rig...weedless green minnow bait and a spinnerbait ...hooked the bas on the spinnerbait...i don't know if the other lure helped or not

Herring Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • nightcrawler with weight drifted along the bottom
  • #8 hook with some weight 8-10 inches up on the line
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • nightcrawler with a bobber
  • fished a nightcrawler with a bobber
  • fished a nightcrawler on a #4 or 6 snelled hook with a snap swivel
  • nightcrawler with splitshot weight
  • caught 1 bluegill off a nightcrawler.i had a small piece of weight on it about 1-2 ft up.used a #8 hook
  • fished a nightcrawler and got lots of bites landed 4 of them.i had a small piece of weight on it about 1-2 ft up.used a #8 hook.i also tried wiggly worm lure and landed 3 more.using a jigging motion seem to work.i tried cple other lures with no luck.
  • nightcrawler no weight just drifting in current

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Mepps #6 Bronze and Orange
  • a couple of types of different of single hook only lures

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • cast masters and diamond jig
  • Giant swedish pimple

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Micro King
    Caffiene Shad
  • micro King

Worm Check Prices

  • Green/white Senko rigged weedless with a 1/0 red hook
  • green/white senko , rigged weedless with a 1/0 hook
  • berkley gulp power bait nightcrawler on a #4 or 6 with a bobber.

Other Check Prices

  • berkley gulp nightcrawler powerbait

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