July 22, 2024 - 08:17:07
Judging by the reports I received this week, not much has really changed from last week. Striped bass continues to provide good fishing from the Triangle eastward to The Race. Fluke are still abundant but keepers are hard to come by. Porgy fishing remains inconsistent with most areas seeing lots of small scup. With the exception being Peconic Bay’s, weakfish are either playing a game of hide and seek or have perished the thought of a Long Island Sound visit this season. And sea bass? Where did they go? I hope after all these years of building up a new fishery that we don’t have to start from square one again. At this point only time will tell so stay tuned.
July 22, 2024 - 08:17:06
With the current heatwave that whacked the Northeast for the past couple of weeks, the summer doldrums came a bit earlier than usual. Nonetheless anyone who withstood the heat and humidity did find rather good fishing with keeper fluke leading the way both in the bays and outside the inlets and into the big pond. Striped bass have shifted to nights or at the very least the early morning hours. The reefs have porgies and sea bass while the sandy fringes of the reefs is clustered by dogfish. Therefore be sure to anchor and fish on the high profile pieces of bottom since you should have no problem with doggies in such locations. Most piers have blowfish and kingfish. Tuna fishing has been solid at all the usual offshore haunts while cobia has taken the place of the striped bass in the bunker pods.
July 15, 2024 - 10:01:01
Striped bass continues to put on a clinic from the Triangle and eastward to The Race. The key is fishing the first hour of the outgoing tide, preferably at dawn and you’re nearly guaranteed an hour of heavy solid action with fish ranging from just under size to fish a whopping 45 to 50 pounds, which must be released. Trolling bunker spoons deep towards the bottom. Umbrella rigs dressed with plastic shads or green, white and red surge tubes has also been effective on most passes of rocky terrain. As the tide slackens, dropping flutter spoons and diamond jigs work great. Fluke remain abundant along most of the rips and the edges of the shoals and sand bars jutting from most of the north shore beaches in 25 to 40 feet of water. Most if not all the fish are shorts leaving anglers to chase other species such as porgies and weakfish. Porgies have begun to bite again while weakfish has been spotty with the best action occurring inside the Peconic Bay Estuary. In between the forks the best weakfish catches are occurring from Rose Grove, Noyack Bay, Nassau Point and Jessup’s Neck. Inside the Peconic Bays there is a great mix bag variety going on with plenty of spot, weakfish, blowfish, fluke and kingfish mixing in with the scup. Many of the scup in the bay are shorts, however the fishing along the west side of Block Island Sound is producing boat limits of jumbo scup to 3 pounds nearly every day. Sea bass have arrived and has been keeping rods bent with fish to 6 pounds making the grade towards the east end of Long Island Sound this week. Crabbing has been excellent in many of the creeks and south shore docks, while tiny snappers are also slamming Suzuki rigs which makes ideal fluke and striper baits.