Fishing Reports

Locally it is still been a little hit and miss with some trips doing quite well and porgies, sea bass and blues, with a few slow trips mixed in that saw only a few dozen porgies and sea bass landed. Best action has been at the middle grounds and some of the deep water drops.

The full day trips have been excellent! Lots of fish to go around, limits not a problem! Porgies, sea bass, blues and occasional striped bass!

Below is a nice report that describes the nice family fishing at its best. It was posted online by John Viol and Diane who chartered the boat this weekend for their family and friends:

Diane and I had set up a very Private Charter on the Celtic Quest, with some of our closest Friends and Co-workers. Please keep in mind that most of these folks have only been fishing once in their lives, a few had never gone fishing before and were joined by a number of their children which ranged in age from 7-10.

Fishing was great again today on the full day trip!! We have been fishing some of our prime deep eastern waters on these trips and limiting out on big porgies, some nice sea bass, lots of blues and occasional surprise treat striped bass! Capt Jared had another excellent day again today.
 

Fishing was very good today on out full day Capt Choice trip. All fares Limited out on Porgies to go with some seabass, big bluefish, small bluefish and one 27 inch striped bass. The deep water drops are producing very well and the quality is excellent. Yesterday saw similar results as well.
 

Great action on the fluke today. 18 anglers had over 150 fluke, 21 were keepers. Johnny B won the pool with a 7 lbder. Lots of fish right now at B11 and B9.
Bucktails worked the best.

Fishing has been very hit and miss this week. Some trips have been very good and others very slow. We had some good action on sea bass, big porgies and blues on some of the deepwater drops and wrecks on a few trips. The shallow stuff is still spotty though on the porgies.

A few trips also saw some very good action on blues and short striped bass. This mornings 9am trip caught em real good on jigs!!

The best is coming when the big schools of cocktail blues are blitzing around Port Jeff Harbor and old field point. Hopefully thing will get more consistent now that this heat wave has finally broken a bit.

We had fluke to over 8 lbs the past two days. tons of action on some trips but the keeper ratio was way down. Keepers were hard to come by. Yesterdays full day trip started off strong on the ebb but once the tide changed that was it for the day on the keepers. Similar results on the local trips. We are going to change our schedule from full day fluke only to Capt Choice Combo trips for Fluke/porgies/ bass and blues depending on the conditions and latest reports.

The Middle grounds is starting to come to life with good jigging and bottom fishing.
Hope to see you!

The morning fluke bite was awesome this morning first two drifts on the last of the ebb. Tons of bait, birds diving, fluke flying over the rails.

It was shaping up to be some awesome day when sadly our trusty deckhand and friend to many here, young Kris aka fishfinder13, jumped to get a net off the roof, landed wrong and blew out his knee..

He was hurting very bad and we cut the trip short and headed home to get him to the hospital. Not sure of the prognosis yet, but it sucks for the poor guy as he will probably be out of work for quite some time during the peak season. Hope he heals up fast and feels better soon. If you can send him a few good words of encouragement when you get a chance guys. thanks.

The fluking is still very very good. We were able to get the charter back out for a few good hours locally and put a trip together. But the full day trips when conditions are right a down right silly.

Capt Jared found a huge pile of blues outside the harbor tonight and slayed em on jigs so that is heating up as well.

Diamond jigging last night at the middle grounds was awesome! Found a few big piles of striped bass rolling on the surface and 9 fares enjoyed some really excellent jigging. 5 keepers stayed on the boat, lots of shorts and some big blues as well.
Looks like the middle grounds is coming to life!

Here is a report from John, a customer who fished on this trip who posted this on Noreast.com:

Hit the Celtic Quest yesterday with my wife Diane and a few Friends. We were not going to let a little rain stand in the way of a Fluke dinner. On the way out to the Fluking grounds it started to rain fairly steady, but that did not dampen our spirits, and everyone was at the rail when Capt. Chris slowed down for the first drift of the day. We started off fishing on the slack tide.

However, even on the slack tide we were picking away at the local Fluke population. Within 45 min of making the frist drift, the rain stopped, and the fluke Turned on with the change of the tide. The Fluke fishing went from fantastic to simply stupid fishing.

Anyone who could fish a bucktail was catching Fluke as fast as they could hit the bottom. Capt. Chris joined us at the rail and landed too many Fluke to count, including at least 1 beautiful keeper in the 5+ lb range. When all was said and done we estimated that we had landed at least 600-650 Fluke. Remember, there were only 14 or so Fares on the Boat today.

I managed 5 Beautiful keepers (only retaining my limit of course). My wife Diane had her limit as well including a Beautiful 7lb class Pool fish. Capt. Chris was on his game as he always is, and Mates Christine and Tommy were always there for whatever you needed, and were kept extremely busy today, between netting Fluke, unhookong Fluke, replenishing bait supplies, and doing a beautiful job at the Fillet table.

These Guy's and Gal's certainly were "as they always are" on top of their game as well. Don't have any idea how long this insane Fluke fishing can possibly continue. Get out there while it's hot. You woun't be dissapointed.

Another great day. 20 anglers, 700 fluke, over 30 keepers. Pool well over 6 lbs. Sweet!