CatchWindow fishing intelligence

Cutler Farris Wharf, ME Daily Water Report — October 7, 2026

Cutler Farris Wharf gets a clear go for boating today, with a good-but-chilly window for fishing and sailing; paddlers should treat the cold and late gusts as the day’s fine print. Boating leads the board at 8.2/10, helped by dry weather, mostly light WNW wind, and modest seas. Sailing is also solid at 7.1/10, while fishing checks in at 7/10 and kayaking at 6.8/10. Those are suitability estimates, not a substitute for local judgment or cold-water preparation. The best all-around stretch is from shortly after sunrise through late morning. Daylight begins at 6:33 AM, high tide arrives at 8:42 AM, and waves ease toward their daily minimum of about 0.42 m near 11 AM. The marine forecast calls for generally small seas—around 0.4 to 0.9 m through the day—with a representative 0.56 m wave height and a short 0.5 m swell from the southwest. Winds are generally manageable, around 6 knots from the WNW, though the full-day range reaches 13 knots. Anglers have a useful major solunar period from 8:57 to 10:57 AM, overlapping the post-high-tide portion of the morning and the calmer wave window. A second major period runs 8:57 to 10:57 PM, shortly before the 9:05 PM high tide, but that is also when conditions are trending less friendly: gusts are forecast to build sharply, with the day’s strongest gust near 25 knots around 11 PM. The evening is not the time to be casual about a small boat, paddle craft, or exposed shoreline. It will look inviting under clear skies, with no rain indicated and atmospheric visibility near 20 km, but it will feel raw: air temperatures run roughly 4 to 12 C, with a representative feels-like temperature near 1 C. Marine SST is 12.2 C, and the reported ocean current is about 0.61 m/s toward 55 degrees. Clear air is not a promise of underwater visibility. Compared with yesterday’s reconstructed CatchWindow history, boating improves markedly from 6.2 to 8.2 as winds ease, while kayaking rebounds from 4.5 to 6.8; sailing is a touch lower than yesterday’s 8/10. Thursday looks rougher, with 1.0–1.4 m waves and a 50% rain chance, before Friday and especially Saturday offer a calmer marine outlook. Best bet: launch after sunrise, work the rising-to-high-tide morning, and be back in before the late-day gusts decide to make introductions.