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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, October 4, 2008

We did not sail on thursday or friday due to the weather. Much better conditions today! We tried a few drops up near the beach to start the day but only had a few tog as well as some porgies and sea bass. Stopped on another wreck which had some nice sea bass and 2 more blackfish. Moved off to some rock piles and caught a ton of porgies and a few sea bass. Tried another wreck and again had

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Opening Day!!!

A great success!!! 11 fares plus 4 crew had a great day today as 42 keeper tog were landed on the day. A few of the drops also had all the porgies you wanted as well as some sea bass. Stopped off in the deep water to top the buckets off with a some big jumbo porgies. A great way to start the blackfish season.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Awesome fishing right now!! Hundreds and hundreds of porgies leaping in the boat today! (Only Retained Limit) Middle Grounds is packed with fish! Blackfish starts tomorrow!!! Only two people signed up so far :( We are going no matter what. Cant imagine missing opening day. Winds are light, conditions are good. Come on down!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, September 28, 2008

Finally got a break in the weather and sailed for the first time since Wednesday. Fishing was a slaughter on the am trip!!!Many anglers had their limit in only 2 hours of fishing! Clam down…Porgy UP !!!Giant Scup!! Oh my !!The mid day trip had a decent catch of big scup as well with a few sea bass in the mix. The fish are really chewin right now!! Blackfish starts on Wednesday!Add a few nice tog and sea bass to

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Long Island Fishing Report – Thursday, September 25, 2008

Here is a recap of the past few days. Sunday's trip was very good with lots of porgies and a few sea bass. Once the tide picked up we switched over to end the trip with great blue fishing. Sundays pm trip saw about a dozen blues to start the night and then a decent pick of porgies to end the night.Monday we did not sail either trip. Tuesday we did not sail on the morning trip but 5 fares

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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, September 20, 2008

Silly fishing today. Our day trip saw a great catch of big porgies and then slayed the blues to end the trip. Our pm trip was a bloodbath as tons of blues were caught as well as a bunch of bass, 2 of which were keepers. Some of the blues were quite large up to 10 lbs. The entire rip from south of the lighthouse all the way north for over a mile was loaded with fish. Great night!!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Thursday, September 18, 2008

Only 3 people showed up for the pm trip last night but it was such a nice evening and fishing has been so good we decided to go anyway. We slayed all the blues they could want to start the trip then switched over to porgies. Put the chum down and built up an excellent bite as double header porgies were coming over the rail in no time.Headed for home with lots of fish and fond memories! Great fishing now!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Here is a report from Capt Neil who fished with us on Tuesday PM trip and posted this on noreast.com: "Well, I sure had a fantastic evening fishing, catching and enjoying everything about the trip. Capt Chris put us over marauding blues, cocktails to bubbas! It was during this blitz that a fish picked up my jig as soon as I lifted it off the bottom. Knew I was in trouble when I saw the reel spool just about emptied,

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, September 14, 2008

Most trips continue to be awesome!!! Yesterday's first two trips saw an excellent catch of very big Porgies! The pm trip had a few hits on the blues and a pick of porgies and sea bass to end the night. Today's charter was excellent!!! Lots and lots of very large porgies with some anglers easily landing their limit. On the way home we stopped on the blues for a nice little bail job to end the trip. 70-80 foot piles

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Long Island Fishing Report – Thursday, September 11, 2008

Here is a report from one of our customers from yesterdays trip. "Slow pick in the AM.. But then it started. My first fish was a 5 lb Sea Bass then some big Scup. We only had (9) fisherman and still we filled up 4 totes with fish. While fishing for Scup we also hauled up 6 or 7 big blues on Scup rigs, from 3 lbs to 8 lbs. That was a lot of fun on those light rods.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Here is a fishing report that one of our customers posted on Noreast.com: "A 4:30 PM trip on the Celtic Quest with Capt Desi at the wheel became PORGY HEAVEN. On monday evening we had 5 fares and Desi said lets go fishing. Forty minutes to middle grounds 3 Hrs to fish and I limited out. I only took 30 porgys home, I threw back at least that many. The porgys were on the hook (2) at a time. If

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, September7, 2008

Fishing was very good all week long!!! The porgie fishing has been excellent at the middle grounds with lots of big scup both on the deep water wrecks and rocks as well as the shallow rocks near the light house. The size has been excellent with fish to 3 lbs almost everyday. The south rip has also been holding some real quality fish as well. Mixing in has been some nice sea bass to 4 lbs. This weekend was a

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Long Island Fishing Report – Tuesday, September 3, 2008

Solid fishing today! 9 fares enjoyed a good pick of fish today as many very large porgies and dozen sea bass we landed on the day. To go along with the porgies and sea bass we also had 25 -30 blues. High hook was around 30-40 porgies, 3 sea bass and 5 blues. Some real quality fish today in the rip both on the drift and at anchor. Yesterdays' pm trip was also very good. After jigging a few blues,

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, august 31, 2008

Awesome fishing continues! Great jigging and porgie fishing yesterday. This morning we followed a huge school of blues east of the middle grounds. The midday trip was a bail job. The pm trip was awesome as well! Great fishing now!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, August 29, 2008

Insane fishing now!!!. Awesome fishing continues! Tons of jumbo porgies and and blues. Yesterdays am trip saw a one drop limit catch of big porgies as over 400 scup were landed in no time. We finished off the trip with some very good diamond jigging. The pm trip saw nearly 200 blues landed as once the tide picked up the blues really piled up good along the rip. Today's am trip was awesome as we jigged a ton of blues

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