Eastport Windjammers of Eastport, Maine Yankee Magazine's 2004 Travel Guide to New England Editor's Choice HOME SYLVINA W. BEAL SCHOONER CRUISES Halie & Matthew SCHOONER CRUISES QUODDY DAM SALTWATER FISHING CHARTER & GROUP TOURS

Enjoy a cruise on the new schooner Halie & Matthew.

Schooner Cruises, Saltwater Fishing, and SummerKeys Water Taxi Tickets
available at Sylvina W. Beal Gift Shop, 104 Water Street, Head of the Breakwater.
207-853-2500

SummerKeys Ferry to Lubec begins Wednesday, June 25, 2008, and continues each Wednesday this summer. The Ferry will leave the Eastport Breakwater each Wednesday at 6:30 PM and return following the concert. All concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Season passes (10 trips) are $120. Single tickets, in advance: $14; on the boat: $17 (depending on space). Season passes and single tickets may be purchased at the Sylvina W. Beal ticket office or on the boat.

The Harris fishing trip on the 35 passenger Quoddy Dam, minimum 10 passengers, leaves the Eastport Breakwater Pier at 8 AM for 4 hours of enjoyment. Please bring your own cooler or other fish container. All bait and gear is provided. No license is required for recreational saltwater fishing. The Quoddy Dam captain and crew know where the fish live. In Eastport because it is the second deepest natural seaport in North America, you can deep sea fish within a few hundred feet of shore. In a short time, still within sight of the Breakwater, the ocean is over 300 feet deep. You won't waste time getting to the fishing grounds. Almost the entire four hours will be spent actually fishing. Bald eagles will soar overhead. You'll often discover their nests as you search the shoreline. Seals, porpoises, and even whales may frolic within sight. Nature is at her best as you fish from the Quoddy Dam.

You'll come back with pollock, mackerel, and probably cod. Some of your stranger catches may be conger eels which are brownish or the blue wolffish. Both are about three feet long in these waters and will wrap around your arm if given the chance. The conger eel has square type teeth while the teeth of the wolffish are more pointed. The bite of each can injure you. Allow the captain or the crew to remove them from your line. The sweet, firm meat of Atlantic wolffish (also called ocean catfish) and conger eels (also called ocean pout) has lobster-like qualities. You can enjoy photos and video of Jack and Jean, two "pet" wolffish who live in Eastport, at Jonathan Bird's diving web site. You may see one or more bluefin tuna but you won't catch them. The tuna are extremely fast swimmers, often ripping through schools of mackerel sending the mackerel leaping above the ocean surface. Local fishermen tell stories of hooking a tuna and being taken for the ride of their lives as the tuna swam throughout the bay. Few tuna have been tamed.

                         Recipes for pollock                Recipes for mackerel                Recipes for cod

Times for all Eastport Windjammers cruises and fishing trips are subject to change.