Fishing Reports

Excellent bottom fishing on the PM trip yesterday!!! Everyone went home with LOTS of big porgies. There were also some sea bass and lots of blues in the area. The piece of bottom we were fishing was just alive with life! Great trip.
    
The day trip also had some nice fish. Capt Jon explored a bit and located some decent life in the deep water and put around 150 quality porgies in the boat. Nothing crazy but the size was very good.

We are off the harder moon tides now so the jiggin has slowed a bit and we have transitioned for the upcoming week to more bottom fishing ( though it fishing, you never canpredict what is going to happen). But looks like some decent bottom fishing is shaping up on a few of the deep water drops for nice porgies and sea bass!

Here is a nice customer report from two nights ago :

Celtic Quest:

I was looking to get out for some summertime porgy and decided to hit the Celtic Quest, out of Port Jefferson for an evening of just that. We set sail at 4:45pm with Captain Paul at the helm and Alex, Joe, and Kevin working the deck. With 18 other fares on board we were all set for some action.

We hit the fishing grounds fairly quickly as we arrived in the Old Field area just outside of Port Jeff Harbor. As soon as we dropped the anchor on our first spot we had constant action. There were a few porgies but TON of small Sea Bass. We bounced around to a few other spots but they were mostly the same type of action, few Porgies but a TON of Sea Bass. I don

Very good jigging today with piles of blues and some big gaffers. switched over to some nice Scup, caught over a hundred for a light crowd, kept 60. 30 sea bass, kept 7 up to 3 pounds in the last bit of the trip.

Found a new piece of bottom that was loaded up with seabass and scup. Check out this pool winning monster.

The great diamond jigging continued this morning!!! The south Rip was completely lit up with all the blues you wanted. everyone caught a ton of fish.

We are coming up on a moon this week and the tides are primo for some awesome diamond jigging. Pick a time with a nice moving current and hopefully it should be good !! Now we just some nicer weather to go with it!

Check out these awesome reviews and comments we received from some great customer's!!!!! Thanks Susan and Kelly for your kind words!!!

"I just wanted you to know that both the staff and the teens who went on the fishing trip on Tuesday, July 24th had a fabulous time! They are all still talking about it. The boat and the crew received great reviews and everyone who went had lots of fun. Despite the rain storm, they loved the time they spent on the Celtic Quest and were very excited about the double rainbows they saw and ALL the fish they caught! We have some terrific photos.

I just had a mother in here about an hour ago, who sent three of her children on the trip. She told me that her daughters said that they had never seen their brother smile as much as he did that day. They took some fish home and ate them that evening. Their father proclaimed that it was the tastiest fish he has had in a long time! I met the bus when they pulled into the library that evening and everyone, adults and kids alike, raved about their time on the Celtic Quest.

Thank you for a wonderful experience. I look forward to booking fishing trips with you next summer. -Susan Tychnowicz, Head of Teen Services Sachem Public Library"

"I had such a great time last weekend, I went again this Sunday. It was an even better time. The two mates, Alex and Brian are absolutely amazing, kind, nice, sweet and polite. You are very lucky to have them. Again, I cannot tell you what an amazing time I had. I was lucky enough to catch 23 blues and I am still in pain today!

Thanks again for an amazing trip; I look forward to the next time. -Kelly Flannigan"

Very good jigging today again. The fishing has been great with many drifts producing a bailjob of bluefish. Some have been in the larger size up to 10 pounds. After we jigged we caught some nice sized scup and a giant seabass! Everyone went home with fish.

Check out these cool pics courtesy of our friend Mike Domino during his trip with us on Tuesday!!!

Fantastic shots Mike THANK YOU!!

Jigging was insane today with both morning trips. High hook over thirty fish rol. We sat for 45 minutes on 1 drift and caught over 100 fish. Then, after wrists were tired and buckets were full, we switched over to catch some beautiful scup and sea bass- everyone went home with some scup for dinner!

Blues have arrived!!!!!!