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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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!
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
Great day out there today!!! The CQIII slayed the giant blues on the chunk in the deep water with Capt Dane at the helm. They also managed a few keeper striped bass up to 24 lbs!! Great trip. The CQII enjoyed great action at the middle ground chasing the bass and blues. The north rip was lit up with tons of blues chasing anchovies on the outgoing tide. We also had a bunch of schoolie bass. The whole rip had
The jigging on the north side of the Middle Grounds was an absolute slaughter today!! All the fish you wanted in 20- 30 feet of water! Awesome fishing! The past few days have also been very good both at the middle and on some of the deeper rock piles. Some nice bass have been coming off some of the deeper spots. We had a few good shots on the porgies as well on the pm trips but the days have
We have landed several big bass the past few trips. Joe Constantino had a 28 lb bass on a jig fishing a rock pile last night. Lots of cocktail blues have been all along the beach and in the inlet. The middle grounds has also produced well the past few trips as there has been a decent amount of blues on the north side. We had a good shot of them this morning until the tide eased off.
The captains choice combo continues to see decent results on the day trip. The fluking is holding up quite well with anywhere from 10 – 20 keepers being landed on most trips. The best fluking now is coming off the deeper edges in 30-50 feet of water. We have also been adding in some bass and blues and a few porgies and sea bass to round out the catch. The diamond jigging has ranged from red hot to slow. There
Today was one of those days fisherman dream of! On our morning charter Capt Chris located some huge schools of bunker and big blues out in the deep water. It was a total bail job on giant blues all morning on bunker chunks. As soon as you got your chunk below the bunker school you could see countless big blues going after the bait.. It is quite a site to see, one which never gets old! Yesterday saw the continued
Insane fluke bite today! 19 fares landed nearly 400 fluke on the day many of which were over 18 inches. Nearly 60 of last years keepers were in the boat by 9am. Last year we would have limited out all fares by 11 am. We did manage 15 keepers on the day. Some great action right now.
Tremendous action on the fluke with 18 -19 inch fish. Enough keepers in the mix to keep it interesting. The PM Middleground trip had some good action for 6 fares. A bunch of big blues to 10 lbs and a keeper bass hit the jigs on the outgoing tide. Finished the trip with a pick of some very big scup. All in all, a nice middle ground mixed bag.
Great trip aboard the CQIII today. Capt Pete put em on the meat! Lots of nice bass to 25 lbs and some big blues. Finished the trip bucktailing a handful of keeper fluke. The CQII again had a ton of action off B11. Not to sound like a broken record but if it was last year everyone would be saying how awesome the fluking is. We would have limited out on 18' plus fish! As it was 18 fares had
Awesome fluking today if we were going by last years limit! We would have had 50-70 keepers over 18 inches for 20 fares. But nonetheless…..lots of action and 15 fatties were kept for the cutting table.
Great rip this morning aboard the CQIII with Paul Buckley and friends. Chunked up some real nice bass to 32 lbs on the outgoing tide. We had a lot of action on our fluke trip today in Smithtown Bay. There were enough keepers to go round as the bait rigs out fished the bucktails today. Should be some good tides coming up this week for the bass and blues on our middle ground trips.
Very good fluke bite going on right now in Smithtown Bay. Tons of bait up in the shallows 4 – 10 feet of water. Those anglers working both bait rigs and bucktails are catching very well. For those of you who like fishing the skinny water, now is the time!!! Yesterdays charter caught a ton of bass and blues diamond jigging on the incoming tide. Largest bass was 20 lbs and several blues pushed the 10 lb mark. With all
The fluking has decent at B11 this past week. Lots of action on the 18-19 inch fluke with enough keepers to keep it interesting. Fluking has also been very good in Smithtown Bay this week fishing the shallow water. Lots of bait in the bay which will hopefully keep the fish around for a while longer. Besides a few slow trips, the evening porgy bite continues to please as plenty of big scup are providing some great action. We did
We have seen some good shots of fluke at B11 recently. Thursday morning saw a very good pick of nice fluke on the morning outgoing tide as 35 keepers were landed for 22 fares and many shorts. Once the incoming started we lost the drift and fishing slowed for the rest of the trip. But all in all still a very good day. It was great fishing on Thursday's pm trip as the big porgies were chewin good off rocky