Fishing Reports

Early report, just started off and Bass are here and hungry!!!!!

We will be bass and fluke fishing today and again on the 12pm and then porgy fishing on the 4:45pm this afternoon!

Last night the scup action was good, the size of the fish was really impressive!!!

-Capt. Chris

Slamdinkins stripper fishing to end the trip!!!! Boat limit in just a few drifts!!!! Awesome fishing! Tommorow the half day will be jigging for bass and fluke fishing!!!!

Here is another great report from a customer who posted this on Noreast.com too:

Went out this morning on the CQ with Capt Chris at the helm and Capt Pete working deck. First let me say what an absolute pleasure it was seeing Pete, he is one of my all time favorite mates. Great humorous personality and extremely knowledgeable. Welcome home to PJ, Peter!

The fluking started slow and tapered off. Chris worked very hard to find them, but they remained elusive. We wound up with 7 keepers for 13 passengers. Even the short action was a bit slow today. I had 2 keepers, but only one would have been a keeper last year. The pool fish was 6 pounds. I don

Here is a fantastic report from a customer who posted this on Noreast.com:

Just got in from another great trip on the Celtic Quest. Boat was scheduled for fluke fishing….picked away throughout the day. On the way in Capt. Chris decided to make one more quick drop to see if the stripers were biting. And by quick stop, I mean quick stop. It was lock and load action on nice quality sized striped bass. Only took the entire boat20-30 minutes tops to limit. That's right folks you're reading this correct, 20-30 minutes for a full boat limit on striped bass. Capt Chris thank you for an awesome trip and hats off to the mate Pete who worked his butt off during the striper blitz.

-Luis

Pool fish today; 7.2lbs goes to Jules aka “Porgy Slayer”!!! Jules wins 3 FREE trips!!! Nice job Jules!!!!!

Good action this morning on the incoming tide!! Joey D was High Hook with 3 keepers, 2 of which were over 5lbs!!! Action slowed after the tide changed as we had wind against. Some bigger fish today which is always nice to see!

Also, got some good scup reports from the small boat fleet. After this moon is over, things should really heat up!!

Sailing daily for Fluke at 7am and scuppin’ at 4:45pm.

Solid start to the season! Lots of scup have arrived and plenty of action with the fluke. Nice to see so many fish around so early in the season!

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Here is a nice article from newsday:

Kidsday: Gone fishing!

Published: November 28, 2011 1:21 PM

By IVETTE BALCACER AND COLLIN FRENCH. Kidsday Reporters

At the end of the school year, all of the fourth-graders at our school went to Port Jefferson Harbor for a fishing trip. We went on the boat Celtic Quest. On the boat they went to three different stations in the morning. At one station there was an activity book. Another station was called Fish Trivia, and at the last station, the mates taught us how to fish.

We caught so many fish! The biggest one was 15 pounds, and it was a striped bass. Some other fish were caught, and they were porgies and black sea bass. Some kids caught sea robins, but we threw them back. Someone even caught a small sand shark!

We fished for a while in the Port Jeff Harbor. Then the captain took us out to Long Island Sound, where the water was a little rougher. We caught some fish there, too. Two other classes went on a second day, and they caught even more fish than we did. They had better weather so they went further out into the Sound. After we fished, the mates were dredging and catching some creatures from the bottom of the Sound.

They caught hermit crabs, snails and spider crabs. It was fun to look at the creatures. One of the spider crabs even got out of the basket and was walking around. This was the best fishing trip ever!

We are all done for the 2011 season! Yesterdays trip was very slow and we are not sailing the rest of the weekend. We will resume again beginning of Januray for Cod sailing from Uileins Marina in Montauk. Thanks so much to all of you who sailed with us this year. We greatly appreciate it!!

Capt Chris reports that they had another excellent day on the Tog grounds!! OVer 60 keepers again for 18 fares with some real good quality in the mix!