Fishing Reports

The bottom fishing has really heated up!! The past two days have seen some great fishing on the wrecks for Jumbo and Super jumbo porgies, sea bass and tons of blues! The full day Super Jumbo Express yesterday and today saw really good results. Looks like the fall run is in full effect.

Yesterdays local mixed bag trip was very good in the morning. Plenty of nice porgies to go round. The mid trip the very slow as the bite shut off mid day. The pm trip bounced back nicely and we put together a nice catch of porgies.

Saturdays full day charter had a decent and steady pick of porgies all day and finished up with a good catch. Our second charter Bailed the blues on jigs to go along with some porgies. Another solid trip. Here are some pics from the great action!

Here is a nice report posted on Noreast.com by one of our customers:
Just got off the phone with a friend who asked me to post some info about his day. He caught snappers, porgies, searobins, blues and even a striped bass all in a few hrs of fishing(7am -11). It was his first time on the celtic quest he asked me if this was a typical day fishing on this boat. I said yep, capt. always puts you on the meat. I told him there are not many days you come home feeling disappointed when you fish the C.Q.

Great day today! Lots and lots of nice scup. Everyone went home with a ton of fish! Last night was very good as well. Very large scup were set up in the middle grounds and it was great action until sunset. There were also lots of big blues working in the rip and we ended the night with a few good drifts with the jigs. Fun trip.

The day trip on Wednesday saw a slow pick of scup where ever we went. Some nice fish off a few wrecks but the bite was way off. Luckily it bounced back that afternoon.

The diamond jigging has been great! Both tides have holding big schools of blues and a few striped bass as well. We had several very good sessions slaying the blues this week!

Diamond jigging was awesome the past few days!! Yesterdays full day charter was a bail job!! Our Mid trip on the open boat was good as well. Our pm charter was a slaughter. Left em biting in an all out bonanza!. This morning charter was also very very good once the tide set up.

The porgie fishing was decent at points the past two days, but slow on some trips when the very hard moon tides started running. The current should be easing off the next few days and hopefully the scup bite should be strong.

Some very big blues up to 13 lbs the past few days! We also had a handful of keeper and short striped bass in the mix as well.

A good day all around today! Capt Jared reported back with great action diamond jigging in the Middle Grounds. Lots of blues, with some big slammers up to 10lbs! They finished the trip off with a few dozen nice porgies and headed home.

Capt Chris reported back to say that porgie fishing was also very good today with plenty of nice scup coming over the rails. Several anglers had their limit and everyone caught well. Good days are ahead!

We were blown out through Saturday with the near miss from Hurricane Earl. We had some decent fishing at the middle grounds once we got back out there. We didnt do much jigging since the storm but bottom fishing remains solid with plenty of good catches when the tide was right.

The 9am trip did much better with plenty of big scup at the middle grounds. We did not sail on any trips today.

Monday evening was fantastic on the porgies!!! Tons of big fish and a full boat limit. THe full day trip yesterday was very good once that incoming tide set up. Finished up with a full boat limit of scup. The 9am missed the tide a bit but everyone still went home with some dinner.

Here is a reprot from the pm trip yesterday posted by Bill P.:
Took a ride out to bend the rod on the 4:30-8:30 trip. Light tackle and jumbo oven stuffer pork chops. I had 17 keepers. The sound was glass. Perfect night, unreal sunset. The whole operation is top notch. Mates did a great job. Thanks Desi.

Todays 9am trip was very good again once the current set up. Lots of porgies came over the rails to end the trip!

Put together a decent catch on the full day trip today. Tons of boats out there for the bluefish tournament made it a little difficult but we finished up by days end with a full boat limit of porgies as well as some sea bass and blues.

The half day boat had a nice catch of porgies in the morning, a slow pick on the mid trip, and a very good catch of blues on the jigs on the pm trip!

We had 6 fares on our full day trip today. Fishing was slow in the morning as only a few dozen porgies, sea bass and blues were landed. But the afternoon we landed on em big time and finished off with some great fishing! Everyone easily limited out and big scup a few pushing the 3 lb mark! Pete Messina was high hook with 30 (orl) Great way to finish for sure.

The half day boat with Capt Jared at the helm had a nice catch of porgies on both the morning and mid trip. Lat night pm trip was also very good on the drift as lots of porgies, blues and sea bass came over the rails. Solid fishing now.

Finally the whether has cleared and we have been able to fish the past two days. Fishing was very good yesterday and the 9am trip saw excellent jigging and some porgies and sea bass. The full day trip had very good action jigging for bass and blues as well. 6 fares on that trip also had close to a limit of porgies.

Thursdays pm charter was very good. On the last of the outgoing we had some action on the blues. At the bottom of the tide we anchored up an d chummed for a very good catch of big porgies, sea bass and many blues as well. All the kids had a great time.
Fun night!

Todays trips saw some decent action on the incoming tide for blues on both trips. The full day boat alos had some decent action to start the day, but after that the bottom fishing was a little slow. All in all though there has been lots of action and everyone has been going home with dinner.

Blown out today due to the weather. Saturday fishing was very slow during the day as the conditions were terrible and limited where we could fish. The evening trip was great though as the winds subsided and we were able to get out to the middle grounds. Started off with a nice catch of very large porgies and then had some great action diamond jigging for striped bass and blues.

Sunday am the jigging was good with plenty of blues. Tried to switch over to bottom fishing but the current was running very hard and fishing was slow. Similar results on mid trip as the weather turned lousy. The pm trip had to be cancelled due to the weather as well.

Bad stretch we are in with the weather but it looks like it is supposed to clear up by mid week. Look forward to getting back out there.