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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, July 11, 2008

We sailed on our second east end fluke trip today! The trip started off very well during the morning tide as there was plenty of action with some real nice fluke in the mix. Bucktails were working quite well with green and pink the hot colors of the day. Once that tide eased off it was a slow pick for the rest of the trip. 16 fares tallied around 100 fluke, 26 were keepers. Pool was caught by Chris which

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Long Island Fishing Report – July 8th 2008

Excellent fishing today on our East End Fluke Special!! We arrived on the last of the ebb and from the first drift you could tell there were a lot of fluke around. The shoal was loaded with sandeels, birds everywhere. The first 2 drifts wer good as a dozen big fluke were caught. The current eased off around 9:30 and the next few hours we had very poor drifting conditions. Noentheless, we managed to pick away at the fluke through

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Fishing has been quite good the past two days. Yesterday saw tons of action all day long with the fluke and porgies. Lots of throwbacks but enough keepers in the mix to put together a good catch. The pm trip saw a good late bite on the porgies around 7pm as most fares limited out. Today saw a ton of action again on the fluke with both bucktails and bait working quite well. The fluke have really turned on this

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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday, July 28, 2008

Great action on the fluke today. 18 anglers had over 150 fluke, 21 were keepers. Johnny B won the pool with a 7 lbder.Lots of fish right now at B11 and B9. Bucktails worked the best.

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Long Island Fishing Report – June 26, 2008

Nice catch of fluke today!! Started the morning with some diamond jigging. Landed about a dozen blues and a few short bass but the fish were scattered. We decided to switch over to fluke on the last of the ebb as the drifting conditions were excellent. The fluke were biting very well until the tide dropped out. We landed over 70 fluke, keeping 22 with some nice fatties in the mix up to 7.9 lbs! Straight bait rigs with spearing

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Long Island Fishing Report – June23, 2008

We did not sail today with the weather. Yesterday saw some great jigging on the CQIII on the last of the outgoing tide. Tons of blues were stacked on the edge of the shoal. The CQII had a slow pick of porgies first thing in the morning but the bite died as we lost the tide. We managed to jig 25-30 blues to end the trip up on the shoal.The pm trip was outrageous! Thousands of blues were pile up

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Long Island Fishing Report – June 19, 2008

Fishing remains very solid right now. The diamond jigging has been terrific on many trips as there are a ton of blues chasing the sand eels up on the shoal right outside the harbor. The porgy bit has been very good in the morning in particular. As for Fluke, today saw a ton of action as 14 fares had over 70 fluke…..only 4 were keepers though.Last years regs it would have been an excellent trip! On Wednesday, we had a

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Long Island Fishing Report – June 16, 2008

Bail Job today!!! Our charter of 24 anglers started the day with a limit catch of Porgies! Then we switched over to diamond jigs and absolutely slaughtered the blues and schoolie bass! Several hundred fish were landed before calling it a day!Great trip!!

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Long Island Fishing Report – June 15, 2008

Yesterday was awesome. BAIL JOB on the Jumbo porgies and lots of great action diamond jigging!Had a family group who chartered the boat and it was great to get the kids into so many fish! Today, the porgies were there, but the bite was very picky. They were schooled up in huge piles and were spawning. Unfortunately they had other things on their minds besides eating our delicious clam baits. The fluke bite was also slow. Oh well, hopefully they

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Long Island Fishing Report – June 13, 2008

What a day! Beautiful weather, beautiful people and lots of fish!!! BAILED the big porgies to start the day. 30 anglers easily limited out in a1/2 hour.Tried a few drifts for fluke but with the drift conditions it wasnt looking to promising so we switched over to diamond jigs. There were lots of blues and a few schoolie bass up on the shoal chasing sandeels. The jigging was very good for the remainder of the trip. Great all around day! It

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Long Island Fishing Report – June 12, 2008

What an opener to the Porgy Season today!!! WE pulled up to the grounds on the charter boat CQIII to find a school of porgies literally 7 football fields long this morning. Our 4 person charter BAILED porgies until they could not take it anymore, keeping only the largest 40.The CQII pulled up shortly thereafter a proceeded to Bail several hundred porgies as well (ORL). Amazing pile of fish right now off Port Jefferson.Ahhh….I love when it like this!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The last two days have been awesome!! Working with Capt Jerry Mcgrath and his Fish N Kids program, over 90 children and their parents have experienced some truly great fishing!!! Jerry's educational program is second to none as the kids were taught a variety of classes from marine ecology to navigation and safety before switching over to enjoy some truly remarkable fishing. Right now the local area is ALIVE with tons of fish. Huge schools of big porgies are piled

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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday, June 9, 2008

Nice catch of fluke again today. 7 fares had over 50 fluke on the day with 8 big keepers. Two fish weighed in a 7.5 lbs. Lots of action and bucktails are the way to go.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, June 8, 2008

Nice catch of fluke today!!! With all the sandeels around the fluke finally decided to bite today after a slow 2 weeks. 23 fares kept 14 big fluke with nearly 100 fluke caught, many of which were over 19.5 inches. Sharpies on board who were casting bucktails had great action today.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, June 4, 2008

We continue to have a great time doing our educational school trips!!! These trips have really been a blast for the kids! From seining plankton and using microscopes to dredging all sorts of sea life from different types of bottom, to just plain fishing, it has been a pleasure to spend our days with so many great kids, teachers, and families. Hopefully, these programs will inspire a few of the kids to become fishermen! or at least help them gain

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