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Hannah Pancione nailed her first 30 this week!

The fishing this week was hot again, with a mixed bag of species being caught most trips. The bass bite was consistent, for the most part, but the bite was a little slower than last week. This week was another good week for bass in the 30-pound class making up for the slight dip in numbers. That will change after the moon in a few days as we expect a new wave of fish to move in. Blues have been excellent on most trips averaging 10 -20 a trip. The slower tides this week allowed us to bottom fish longer letting us capitalize on the the seabass and porgies. Only a few weeks left before the summer ends, get those kids out there!

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It’s been the best few weeks of the season and it just keeps getting better!  Bass, blues, seabass and scup are the focus and all are cooperating.  Be sure to follow us on facebook for daily updates!

This week has absolutely been the best fishing of the season.  Lot’s of stripers, lots of action.  Big, small, they’re all here.  Bluefish finally showed up with regularity and the seabass and scup fishing is still off the charts.  – Check out Todd Campbell’s 37 pounder!

Striped bass fishing finally seems to be getting better every day, yet still a bit inconsistent.   Most groups are catching six or seven, some are struggling for three.  The good news is that most of the fish have been good sized fish in the 20- to 40-pound bracket.  Blues seem to be just starting to show up.  You can set your watch by the sea bass and porgy action though!  The bottom is carpeted with keeper sea bass and there are good numbers of huge porgies mixed in with them and most trips see a few bonus fluke as well. You want to talk about some great fishing to get your kids involved in?  They are going to have a blast!  The action is red hot now and this should hold through the rest of the summer.-  Call now!

We’ve been getting some NICE stripers lately. Not a lot of numbers, but the ones that we’ve been hooking into have been SOLID fish. Many, many fish over 30 pounds this week and seabass is off the charts. Total lock and load. We still have openings for July dates, morning or afternoon time slots does not seem to matter for the bite. Here’s regular customer Lindsay Urban with some nice bass from her trip the other day.

Here’s Erin Lawler  with her nice striper from an evening trip this week.

Hot!  Hot! Seabass action!

The seabass bonus season is now, (8 per man) so the time for a sea bass trip is NOW! Black seabass are plentiful along with a lot of LARGE scup. Limit’s all around.

The moon phase has been perfect, and the calendar’s right for some solid striped bass trips, but the truth is, they’re just not here.  The water temp is only 62 degrees and the water temp toward the bottom is much, much colder.  There is just not a lot of forage in the area for the striped bass to feed on.  Bluefish have also been scarce. We are into a lot of stripers that are sub legal (below 28”), but there’s still a bunch of fish in the 25lb -30lb class swimming around that we’ve been intercepting on their journey North.  Blues should arrive in great numbers by the week of the 4th. – Capt. TJ

Here’s regular customer Ray Simpson with a big ‘ol FAT bass from the other day.

– Week 3 into the season and we’re finally seeing some nice quality fish.    A lot of stripers in the 25lb -30lb class with several a touch below 40lb, so the quality is here, the quantity is still not.  The water temp dropped from 61F at the end of last week, to 53 this week because of the cold front.  Things warmed up yesterday and we’re back up to 57 now. There’s also been a bunch of smaller (short) stripers. –A good sign for the future and a sprinkling of bluefish hitting the deck as well.  Fluke numbers are still good with many fish over 20’’ taken this week with 24” being the largest again and we’re starting to get more and more porgies on each trip too.   New moon phase next week.  Fingers crossed. – Capt. TJ

Here’s a very excited John Racow and Doug Coulter after a last minute Hail Mary pass the other day.

– Week 2 into the season and we’ve seen much improvement. The trips are still seeing inconsistent catches with some trips being better than others, but more and more forage fish are starting to move into the area. The water temp peaked above 60 for a few times this week also. Fluke fishing seems to be fairly consistent with many fish over 20’’ taken this week with 24” being the largest. The current full moon phase should also really kick things into gear. Stay tuned. – Capt. TJ

Here’s some nice stripers taken by the O’Connells!

One week into the season and the fishery is starting to improve.  Thankfully we’re starting to get more keeper stripers and even running into some bluefish!  Without a doubt the action is inconsistent with some trips being better than others, but still an improvement over the first few trips of the year.  It’s just a waiting game for the migration to move into our area now.

Here’s regular customer Mike Venghaus with the first keeper of the year!

The moon phase is right, the temp is right and the calendar is right, but the stripers and fluke just haven’t got that memo!

Our local fishery is poised and ready to go. The fish just haven’t migrated to us on their typical schedule,  it is that simple.

The winter holdover bass from the Housatonic are on their way and we are starting to catch a few of them, and the Connecticut River fish are around the mouth of the river feeding in the shallow flats. The fish are just not in our area in the numbers they usually are.

Some blame the cold winter, some blame the lack of rain,  but it’s probably a little bit of both.  They are just simply late. We are getting some fish….. but it is what it is, and it’s all up to mother nature right now. Across the Sound in the Long Island fishery, the fishing is good to great and they are also in numbers and in places a week or so behind where they should be.

Stay tuned. – Capt. TJ