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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, October 5, 2007

Only 2 fares showed up today but with such beautiful weather and the smell of tog in the air we decided it was too nice of a day not to go fishing! Brian and Billy along with Capt Pete and myself enjoyed a solid pick of nice sized tog today as we landed 20 blacks, 12 of which were keepers up to 7lbs. Greenies did the trick on the morning tide before calling it a trip around noon time. Nice

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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday, October 1, 2007

Well……opening day was a lot of fun but unfortunately the blacks decided to get lock jaw. We did manage 6 keepers with one which weighed in over 7 lbs but they just were not feeding aggressively like they were a few days ago. We used our underwater camera on a few of the spots and you could see many big blacks just swimming by our baits uninterested for what ever reason. But they are down there and who know maybe

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Long Island Fishing Report – Wednesday, September 26, 2007

We did not have any fares to sail today, but with such beautiful weather we decided to go on a crew trip to test a few of the blackfish drops for the upcoming season. Fishing in near 90 degree temps in shorts and t-shirts…we are pleased to report that the blackfish were biting very well!! Myself, Capt Chris, Capt Pete, and Capt Rich (SeaHag II) had 19 keeper blacks to 8lbs many of them caught on whole green crabs fishing

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, September 21, 2007

Fishing has been very solid this week. Yesterday saw a slow start on the jigs to start the trip but improved as Captain Chris hit a few of his favorite wrecks and rock piles for a a nice pick of big porgies and blues. Our charter on the CQIII for Joe Deptula, Vinnie and Al saw great bottom fishing as over 100 jumbo scup were landed in only two hours fishing a piece of bottom in 40 feet of water.

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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday, September 16, 2007

Decent day today despite the east winds and lousy conditions. We were forced to fish Smithtown bay to get out of the weather and found a nice pile of big blues to jig in the morning. The bottom fishing saw a lot of action but there not too many keeper porgies. Once things calmed down a bit we hit a few schools of blues off Port Jeff harbor to end the trip. Not a bad day considering the conditions. Yesterdays

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Long Island Fishing Report – Thursday, September 13, 2007

We did not sail Tuesday with the bad weather. Wednesday wasn't much better as the west wind was blowing up to 30 knots in the am. Our charter still wanted to go and after a slow morning with the high winds, the conditions finally improved mid day and the fish gods rewarded this hearty bunch as several huge schools of bluefish appeared in the final hour of the trip. The jigging was great to end the trip and everyone went

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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, September 8, 2007

Fishing has been excellent this week! The amount of blues around the inlet and B11 is incredible the past few weeks. Last night, everywhere you looked you could see fish boiling on the surface. The last several pm trips have seen great jigging! Some trips we haven't even made it out of the harbor as big schools have been stacked up on the west side of the harbor. Other nights the fish have been from the inlet all the way

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Long Island Fishing Report – Tuesday, September 4, 2007

It was some savage boil of bluefish last night inside the harbor!! Go figure…even with all the labor day boat traffic the blues were going crazy off poquot like we haven't seen in years. Got on them for several amazing drifts until they finally scattered. Exciting fishing to say the least. Today started out a little slow on the bunker chunks. We switched over and picked away at some nice porgies at the middle grounds and then to end the

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, August 31, 2007

Fishing has been very, very good on most trips this week. The best action has been right outside the harbor as acres of blues are feasting on peanut bunker. Last night was a bail job on the blues with several limit catches in the first hour. Today was also awesome off Old Field again with all the blues you wanted. The porgy fishing has also been very good as the fish are starting to set up now on some of

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Long Island Fishing Report – Saturday, August 24, 2007

Very good fishing the past few days. Yesterday saw some great action on the jigs all morning long chasing numerous schools of surface blues. The pm trip saw a few good shots of fish but they were moving fast and more difficult to catch. Nonetheless, those who were willing to fish hard put together a good catch. Today the jigging was very good to start the day right outside the harbor. Lots of cocktail blues were boiling outside the inlet

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Long Island Fishing Report – Thursday, August 23, 2007

Thankfully this awful weather is finally moving out. We did not sail for 3 days with all the wind and rain. We finally got out again last night but fishing was very slow as everything was really stirred up. Had a few fish to start the night and there was some cocktail blues in the harbor, but it was a tough trip. Today was much better though! We had great action on the jigs with some huge piles of fish

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Long Island Fishing Report – Sunday, August 19, 2007

Yesterdays trips were very slow due to the awful weather. The NW winds really had everything stirred up out there and the bite was way off. We were forced to fish in the harbor much of the day as the conditions were just too lousy. Today's am trip was better though. It wasn't the great fishing from earlier in the week but nonetheless we had some good shots of blues in the morning east of b11. Once the tide dropped

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Long Island Fishing Report – Friday, August 17, 2007

Very good day today on both trips. There has been a ton of fish working huge schools of peanut bunker in the deep water off B11. The day trip started off slow to the west but once the fish were located it was awesome diamond jigging for the rest of the trip. for the rest of the trip. Despite the lousy weather on the pm trip the fishing remained excellent. A few very large schools of blues were located on

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Long Island Fishing Report – Thursday, August 16, 2007

Great day today. Fish were all over the surface and with no wind it was easy to find them. Hit a few schools with some big fish as well to 10lbs. All you wanted on the jigs!

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Long Island Fishing Report – Monday, August 13, 2007

Tons of fish out there today. The CQIII had great action on the jigs today with blues up to 10 lbs. AS the tide eased off we chunked a deep water rock pile and had a bunch of big blues to 12 lbs and a nice bass of 20 lbs. The CQII also enjoyed awesome fishing on the jigs. The day began in the middle with some big piles of fish on the north side. We then headed off cranes

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