Fishing Reports

Great rip this morning aboard the CQIII with Paul Buckley and friends. Chunked up some real nice bass to 32 lbs on the outgoing tide.

We had a lot of action on our fluke trip today in Smithtown Bay. There were enough keepers to go round as the bait rigs out fished the bucktails today.

Should be some good tides coming up this week for the bass and blues on our middle ground trips.

Very good fluke bite going on right now in Smithtown Bay. Tons of bait up in the shallows 4 – 10 feet of water. Those anglers working both bait rigs and bucktails are catching very well. For those of you who like fishing the skinny water, now is the time!!!

Yesterdays charter caught a ton of bass and blues diamond jigging on the incoming tide. Largest bass was 20 lbs and several blues pushed the 10 lb mark. With all the bass and blues around right now and due to popular demand, we have now begun our afternoon Middle Ground Madness trips which will be a combo trip for Striped Bass, Blues, Porgies and Sea Bass.

The fluking has decent at B11 this past week. Lots of action on the 18-19 inch fluke with enough keepers to keep it interesting. Fluking has also been very good in Smithtown Bay this week fishing the shallow water. Lots of bait in the bay which will hopefully keep the fish around for a while longer.

Besides a few slow trips, the evening porgy bite continues to please as plenty of big scup are providing some great action. We did an experimental trip to some deep water drops today and were pleasantly surprised with a good catch of very large scup on a few of the wrecks. The middle grounds also had some solid action as well.

We have seen some good shots of fluke at B11 recently. Thursday morning saw a very good pick of nice fluke on the morning outgoing tide as 35 keepers were landed for 22 fares and many shorts. Once the incoming started we lost the drift and fishing slowed for the rest of the trip. But all in all still a very good day.

It was great fishing on Thursday's pm trip as the big porgies were chewin good off rocky point. Lots of big scup!

Friday was very slow as the conditions were horrendous with the strong NW winds all day. The pm trip was forced to fish in the harbor due to the winds but nonetheless caught very well!

Very good porgy fishing was had by all!

The bass fishing has been awesome this past week both chunking and diamond jigging! Our small charters are seeing some great action on fish up to 18 lbs.
The fluke action has picked up considerable since last week. We have seen a few good shots of fish a B11 the last few days. The bite was tricky today but the fish are there. High hook was 5 keepers and bait rigs were the ticket today over the bucktails.

We just came off a week of awful weather. East winds all week made for some lousy conditions. The fluke fishing was very slow during the week but improved again the past several trips. Lots of action on 18-19 inch fluke with enough keepers in the mix to keep it interesting.

The porgy fishing continues to be great! Yesterday's pm trip saw another great haul of big scup to end the night. Saturdays Am trip had a great shot of porgies to end the trip. Great scuppin' right now for the whole family!

Thankfully……we got lucky with the weather today. The rain held off until the very end of the trip and the east wind dropped right out in the morning. Todays trip had a ton of action with a few hundred fluke caught with 28 keepers to 6 lbs.

We took a few drifts on some hard bottom as well and bailed big porgies. The Sauter family lead the way with 8 keeper fluke, 3 of which were over 5 lbs to along with a bushel of big Porgies.

My friends tell me that fluking was HOT today! Great bite after the storm!

We did not sail yesterday and are doing educational trips today and wednesday with Capt Jerry McGrath. Caught a nice load of porgies with the kids today. A fun day for all the kids for sure.

Look forward to getting back to the hot fluke bite wednesday evening and thursday .

Another very solid day on the fluke. Had a real good shot of fish in the morning and another excellent shot of fish to end the trip. Several anglers scored with 5 plus keepers apiece (orl) Once again, if it was last years limit of 18, it would have been a Bail job! Easily would have limited out the whole boat with high hooks well over 20 keepers! One angler had nine fluke over 18 inches on the first drift alone!

What a day today aboard the CQIII !!!!! The fluke fishing was awesome first thing in the morning on the incoming for the first hour or two. We limited out on fluke to 6 lbs and threw back a ton of 18-19 inch fish. Awesome fishing.

To top it off we then headed in off the beach and massacred huge porgies with some weighing in over 3 lbs! Full boat limit was caught in no time. Check out the video on the homepage to see some footage from todays trip to remember!

The CQII also got in on the action this morning landing 45 keepers with several sharpies catching their limit of quality fluke. Great day all around!