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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, May 15, 2010

Solid fluking today. The morning was a little tricky with the stiff NW wind and incoming tide. The outgoing was best on our mid day trip. Fish were sitting on the slope 22-25 feet of water and it was a decent pick with the west wind. Finished the day up with some nice fluke including one 5, two 6 lbders, and one 7.10 lbder. The big flattie was caught by Jay from Noreast.com and he is currently in the lead

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, May 14, 2010

We did not sail with the weather this morning. Yesterdays fluke action was great though on the outgoing tide to end the trip. Capt Chris found a nice pile of fluke to work on and everyone went home with fish! Several large fluke had to be released but will hopefully be waiting for us tomorrow! The pm trip was organized by Jeff Rocco to raise money for Autism Speaks. He did an awesome job putting a great bunch of people

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, May 12, 2010

We did not sail today with the weather. Yesterday, we had a good showing of larger fluke……but there was one problem. Most of them were too big! A good problem to have. We kept a few in the slot and release several more of 20 inches. We also had a handful of very large porgies as well. John Brisciana led the way with 11 fluke on the day, 8 of which were over 20 inches up to 6.5 lbs. Hopefully

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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday, May 10, 2010

We havent sailed much recently with the weather. Last trip was Friday and we puts some nice fluke in the boat. Nothing crazy yet but 4 fares had a pick up fluke on the day and everyone went home with fish for the day. Also, it was great to see that the porgies are showing up. There were huge piles around on the fluke grounds during the day. We tried for them on the evening trip Friday and had a

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Picture perfect day today with warm temps and calm seas Everything looks good with lots of Sandeels and terns everywhere. The fluke bite was slow with just a few fluke here and there. We kept 5 in the slot size, released one 23 incher and threw a bunch of shorts. Hopefully very soon the bite will happen!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, May 1, 2010

Today was the fluke opener! We did find some life on the slopes, but nothing great yet. 15 fluke were landed on the day largest about 4 lbs. A few were in the slot of 17-20 inches. Bucktails had all the action and Joe Deptula was high hook with 5 fluke. There was a very good showing of bait on the shoals and the terns are just showing up which is a good sign. The fluke we did cut were

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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, April 24, 2010

Bite was slower today for whatever reason. A few pieces had some life, but not like yesterday. Finished up the day with 30 keepers, 70 total tog. Bob Mastrangelo took the lead for the largest tog of the season with 8 lb beauty! The largest tog of the season will win a beautiful custom rod generously donated by Ralph"Rodwinder" himself! Chartered tomorrow and weather looks lousy for monday as of right now. We will fish for tog all week and

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, April 23, 2010

Beautiful day out there today. Found good life on several different pieces and put together a nice catch of blackfish. Finished the day with 60 keepers and over 125 tog for the day. Johnny sinkers won the pool with a 7 lb beauty. Out of respect for their father, the Desena boys allowed their father to catch all the fish today, as he finished up high hook with 7 keepers, (orl) Nice job old timer! :)

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Good bite today! Caught em well in several different depths with a better showing of larger fish today 4-7 lbs. Sandy from the DEC was onboard and kept the official tally today. 20 anglers had 118 tog with 51 keepers to 7 lbs. The pool fish was an impressive 335 millimeters in length! :) Lucky Lindy led the way with 6 keepers (orl)

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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday, April 19, 2010

Sailed with 7 fares today. Had good life in the deep water in the morning. Tried another drop 60 feet and not much going on. Headed back to the deep and had some more action to finish the trip. We ended up with 50 tog, 15 keepers for the morning before heading home early after the wind and current picked up. Big Glen lead the way with his limit of tog.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, April 18, 2010

Tog are starting to bite! We didnt sail all week with weather and annual coast guard inspections etc. Happy to report that we got out today though and the tog are starting to turn on. Nothing super yet, but we did have 100 tog or so, keeping 25. Matteo won the pool with a 6 lb tog. Some good life in the afternoon once the water warmed up. all on clams. Trying to get back out there again tomorrow. Just

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, April 11, 2010

Opening day today. Beautiful day out there, lots of great customers, but slow fishing. The water temp was very high in the upper 40's, several degrees warmer than when they started biting last year. We ended up with 3 keepers and a dozen shorts. One of the keepers was over 7 lbs though. Nice fish caught by Winston! Also, we are happy to announce that we have some great prizes this year that have been generously donated from one of

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, March 21, 2010

Well, we are all done with our cod season and the Celtic Quest IV is now safely back in Port Jefferson! What an amazing cod season it was though. We saw some epic fishing for sure, certainly some of the finest local cod fishing our area has ever seen. It was great to work with some of the finest party and charter captains around and so encouraging to see so many boats working together out there. I know I speak

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, March 19, 2010

Cod are still here! The morning bite was excellent till 9am, then a pick and a very slow afternoon. Beautiful day out there and great to see that the cod are still chewin!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Very slow day out there today for some reason. We were reading fish all over but just couldnt get them to bite. Yesterday saw a good morning bite on anchor and a slow afternoon. finished up with about 150 keepers to 20 lbs. Ed Palmer and Jim Foley tied for high hook with 14 keepers a piece. looks like we will be blown out through the weekend. Hope to get back out there again next week!

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