Long Island, Metro NY - North Shore Fishing Reports

A happy and a safe New Year to all. Let’s hope the season of 2022 will be as productive as the past few seasons. As expected, tog season ended on a high note, in fact the East End open and charter boats left them biting with a lot of slob tog coming over the rails on the last days of the season. As for all else, the cow bass worked their way back up the Hudson, while some schoolies and hold overs are still around for some catch and release action in the back of Little Neck and Manhasset Bay’s as well as the upper Hudson north of the George Washington Bridge with blood worms producing best. Anglers who steamed east along the southeast of Block Island enjoyed great fishing with giant sea bass and a few codfish. Locally, the squid fishing has totally eluded the harbors as far as we know, while blueback herring are producing some decent action for anglers fishing at the right place at the right time in areas of swift currents. The good news is that anglers with a freshwater license may want to focus some efforts inside the Nissequogue River where the upper part of the river is producing some brown and brook trout, while the lower sections are producing some American shad and sea run trout for those enthusiasts’ working flies and spinners. Pick a day when the weather suits and give the winter fishing a try.