Rusty Pelletier

Zone Writer · Midcoast Maine / Penobscot Bay

Rusty Pelletier has forty years of lobstering and sport fishing from Boothbay to Stonington, and he reads Penobscot Bay like a chart you can walk on. Monhegan's ledges, Eastern Egg's bass, the deep channel groundfish — Rusty's is the voice of the real Downeast coast.

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Boothbay to Stonington — Penobscot Bay, Monhegan Island, Deer Isle, Vinalhaven, Isle au Haut

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Midcoast Maine / Penobscot Bay

New moon springs load up the thorofares as bass and mackerel push through on the rip

Groundfish still holding deep in Penobscot Bay's channels while bass and blues work the current lines topside.

Rusty PelletierJul 10, 2026