Fishing Reports

Great fishing today! We had Capt Jerry Mcgraths Fish and Kinds program out today. All the kids had a great day as bottom fishing was red hot!! Here is Capt Jerry's report:

Yesterday, forty 4th graders, 20+ chaperones, and 4 teachers from the Oxhead Rd. Elementary School were taken to the "Promised Porgyland" by the always affable and friendly crew of the Celtic Quest. Whooping and hollering prevailed as porgy after porgy (porkchop after porkchop) found their way over the rails of the famed Port Jefferson party/charter. No skunks around the entire vessel and 9 yr. old Alexia Lengyel led the way with her dad by capturing over 26 scup. Victoria Mankowski captured the largest fish on the day, a 5 lb. blackfish which was quickly released. Not much sun today, a few sprinkles, but NO WIND, thus nice flat seas (a big factor with a boatload of young newbies). To sum it up: AWESOME DAY, despite the June grey skies. Many thanks to Capt. Chris and the ever-patient Tommy & Josh.

The Pm trip was also very solid as 8 anglers jigged 40 blues and a few short striped bass to start the night and then finished up with 100 big porgies. (retaining only their limit)
Hot fishing now!

The weather has been awful. We did get out Sunday morning and despite the bad weather had a few hundred nice porgies on the morning trip. The rest of the day was cancelled due to the weather.

Monday was blown out due to the weather. Finally sailed again this morning and as of 11 am the boat had a full limit of big porgies. Bottom Fishing was great according to Capt Chris. They were headed out to find some blues and bass for the rest of the trip but Capt Chris said he want sure how it was going to be as the current was slacking. He said there was a ton of bait and life on the hills though.

We started out this morning on the scup grounds. With slack tide and no wind, it was very hard to stay on the fish. We had no set of any kind. When we got on them they were on the larger side, many fish over 2 pounds. We boated around 300 keepers.

We then shifted gears and did some jigging. It was all out bail job from the first drift to the last!!!

We left them biting. We must have had 175 bass (hard to keep track, there was way to much mayhem) 13 of which were keepers!!!

Great day to be out there, didn't start raining until the last drift!

Great fishing continues! Started the day with 250-275 nice porgies. Then we hit a few pieces of bottom that were stacked with Striped Bass and blues!! Caught approximately 80 bass, 15 keepers and dozens of blues. Left em biting and headed home. Great trip!

Full limits of porgies on all trips today! Few nice seabass as well. Great fishing now!
Here is some video from the day. also below are a few pictures of our fish-finder showing the HUGE schools of porgies on the bottom.

This one is from our PM PORGY BONANZA!

Bottom fishing has been on fire the past 2 days. Yesterday we had close to 2000 porgies on the day, over 1000 keepers!! (only retaining our limit) Some fishing right now!

Today was the final day of fluke for two weeks. We started off with a BAIL JOB on the porgies. Full boat limit for 20 anglers in no time. Fluking was slow most of the day, though Capt Chris found a decent amount of fluke to end the day and put 8 keepers and a bunch of shorts in the boats to end the trip.

Here is Chris' report from yesterday as well. Bring the kids. Now is the time!

"Steamin' in now on trip #2 for the day, the only word to describe today's porgy action is SILLY.
The 7am trip started out on the slow side, after a little looking around we located the mother load and put 450 fish on in one hours time. Just about as good as it can get. The best and most fun porgy fishing I have seen in a while.

On the 12pm trip the scup were right were we left them biting this morning, we picked up right were we left off and limited again in no time.
Clam down – SCUP UP!!!!!!!!!!

This fishing should hold up like this for a few weeks.
capt chris

Our PM trip, Jumbo Porgy Special was a BAIL JOB on the Porgies! All the kids had a ball as a full boat limit was caught in no time! Great night!!

The porgies are stacked up right now on the beach. The next few weeks usually is very good if you would like to get in on the action.

Here is a report written by Capt Neil was joined us on our evening trip:
What a fishing/catching trip! Right from the first stop large porgys were flying over the rail. This continued for most of the trip. Bottom line, 25 fares caught their limit. You did not have to measure the porgys. If there was any doubt it just was released.

The age of the fares covered 7 decades. My fishing partner was 3 year old Andrew. Helping each other we caught, caught, caught and caught some more porgys. What a blast. All the other young children were catching just like the adults. It was a "should have been here yesterday" trip.

This was lock and load catching! The best! Folks this is the kind of fishing/catching that works for young children and is also excellent table fare. Now is the time.
Great job keeping us on the porgys Capt Chris. Mates Tommy, John and Chris always right there when needed
Thanks guys for a memorable trip.
Capt Neil

Had a nice charter today with the Hudson Anglers. Fluking started of with a slow pick on the end of the tide and the slack A lot of shorts but just a few keepers. We headed east a ways and found a nice body of fish for the first part of the incoming tide. Ended up with 30 keepers to 6.9 lbs.

Then we moved inshore and whacked the porgies up to 3 lbs to end the trip, keeping a full boat limit! Fun day.

Today we sailed on our east end fluke special. It was a tough day with all the east wind and fast drift. Lousy conditions made for slow fishing. 70 fluke, 16 keepers to 6 lbs were landed.

Nice catch of fluke today. Little picky with the east wind this morning but kept looking around and found a nice pile to work on for the rest of the day.

400 fluke on the day, 50 keepers to 8 lbs. FishingUniteds own Jfish led the way with 30 plus fluke, 8 keepers (orl) fishing with a single white spro. Way to go John!
Headed out again tomorrow.