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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday , May 26, 2008

We had a great week with our educational school trips. From seining plankton to bottom trawl surveys, the kids had a great time learning about our local marine environment. We resumed fishing again this past weekend but unfortunatley the bite was very slow. Some nice big fluke were landed but not the numbers we had last week. There were many shorts on some trips as well as blue fish. On a few of the evening trips we also had a

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, May 18, 2008

Bit if a slow pick for us out there today. 15 keepers were landed on the day. Some big fish though with Steve Abromowitz winning the pool with a 7.5 lb beauty. We will be sailing educational school trips during the day through this thursday, so we may not have another fishing report up for a few days. All the afternoon trips are open though as well as all trip friday through monday. See you soon!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, May 17, 2008

Little breezy out there this morning but conditions settled down a bit by mid morning. Picked away at the fluke on the outgoing tide as 11 anglers caught 18 keepers for the am trip. Rich Healy won the pool with a 6 lb flattie ! Not a bad day at all.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, May 16, 2008

Fluke were biting very well today!!! Only 4 fares today so we just did a half day trip. Total was 13 keepers to nearly 7 lbs! Quality stuff today!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Thursday, May 15, 2008

Great to be fishing again!!! Today was the long awaited fluke opener. 6 fares landed about 30 fluke on the day, 7 of which were keepers. The keepers were all quite large and bucktails were the ticket today. Lots of sandeels around up on the shoal and hopefully this is just the beginning of good days to come.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Today was our final trip of the year. Picked away at the blackfish and ended the day with 57 keepers. Not a bail job by any means but some nice fish to 6 lbs in the mix. Due to the regulations, we are now tied up for two weeks because there is nothing to fish for. We will begin again on May 15th when Fluke opens! Hope to see you then!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Tuesday, April 29, 2008

It was a cold, rainy, windy day out there for our Noreast.com Blackfish Seminar. Thankfully the great company and about 50 keeper blackfish made it a fun day again. Tough conditions but a lot of great information was shared among all aboard today. Thanks again to our team of Captains : Chris, Mike, Steve, Jerry, Neil and Anthony from the Barbara Ann Charter boat. You all are a wealth of knowledge and and it has been a pleasure to do

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, April 27, 2008

After a slow start we finished up strong today. First few drops were picky but thankfully the last few had some decent life on them. We ended up with 70 keepers to 6.7 lbs. Sung Bum Kim won the pool for the first time in his life !Only a few days left. Hope to finish strong! Not sailing tomorrow with the weather, but still some spots available for Tuesdays seminar and Wednesday.

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Long Island Fishing Report – April 26, 2008

Fishing was slower than yesterday as the conditions were much tougher. Nice easterly roll all day, but luckily the sun came out around mid day. Total for the day was 35 keepers. Few nice fish in the mix with Tony Alesi winning the pool. .

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Long Island Fishing Report – April 25, 2008

Great day with the gang from Noreast today! The weather was perfect, the company was great and to to top it all off the Tog bite very well!! 80 keepers were landed as both clams and crabs caught well. Pablo won the pool with a 6.11lb tog.A lot of great information was shared between all the Captains and fisherman. Thank you to Noreast.com for putting this trip together, especially Togmaster for all your hard work.Look forward to the next seminar

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Long Island Fishing Report – April 23, 2008

Blackfish were biting good again today!!! We had a lot of families and kids out today to enjoy the great weather. Luckily the fishing was again quite good as nearly 80 keeper blackfish came over the rails. Mike Hayman was high hook with 8 keepers (orl) Pool fish was 7.5lbs. Nice to see all the kids having fun catching fish today! Plenty of room on all trips coming up. Just give a call or book online.

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Long Island Fishing Report – April 22, 2008

Nice catch of Tog today!!! Hit a few drops in 50-70 foot range and had good life on all of them! 14 anglers enjoyed a solid catch of blackfish as 37 keepers were landed. Some quality fish in the mix as the pool weighed in over 8 lbs today. Clams worked best and the bite was aggresive. Plenty of room on most trips including our Noreast seminar on Friday.

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Long Island Fishing Report – April 19th, 2008

Togs are starting to bite! The water is 8 degrees warmer than when we started last year. With temps in the high 40's now, the blackfish bite has begun. We had a decent pick of fish on the morning tide yesterday with 24 keepers coming over the rail with about that many shorts. Once the tide turned that was it though as the bite shut off the rest of the day. High hook was 5 keepers. Not a bad start

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, September

Here is a report from Captain Neil that he posted on Noreast.com: If you thought about fishing on the Celtic Quest this morning but did some thing else instead, maybe you should pass by this report. Fred, Bob, Tom and I chose to fish the CQ today. What a CATCHING trip we had! So did all the other anglers on board! Capt Chris stopped to mug some of the cocktail blues that were jumping all over the surface. You could

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2008 Fishing Report

A Great Blackfish season for sure!!! 12/6/08 120 KEEPERS !!! 12/5/08 22 ANGLERS LIMITED OUT !!! 12/3/08 110 KEEPERS!!!! 11/21/08 33 FARES 130 KEEPERS!!! 11/20/08 19 FARES 76 KEEPERS!!! 11/11/08 30 FARES LIMITED OUT!!! 11/10/08 115 KEEPERS 11/8/08 157 KEEPERS 11/7/08 33 FARES LIMITED OUT!!! 11/5/08 30 FARES LIMITED OUT!!! 11/4/08 165 KEEPERS 11/3/08 44 FARES LIMITED OUT!!!! 11/2/08 46 FARES LIMITED OUT!!!! 10/30/08 22 FARES LIMITED OUT!!! 10 27 08 19 FARES LIMITED OUT!!

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