Fishing Reports

The last few days have ranged from excellent to very slow for no apparent reason. We have had some great shots of big blues in the middle with some bass, and cocktails inshore on the surface. Yesterday was slow for some reason on both the blues and the porgies, but go figure, we had a great fishing for nice size porgies on the afternoon trip and some decent shots at the blues off Miller Place. Today, the morning bite was good on the porgies as our charter of 7 had a nice catch of quality scup fishing a deep wreck. The chunk bite was slow on the blues.

Ton of bait around, ton of fish around but we are in the typical hot summer pattern where you never know quite what to expect. One day the chicken, one day the feathers!

Great day today. It was a bail job on the bass and big blues once the incoming tide set up. We had a few keeper bass in the mix, lots of shorts and all the blues you wanted. Many of the blues were good size 5- 10 lbs.

We tried one quick drop on a wreck for sea bass and porgies. Only caught a few big scup before we decided to call it a day.

The porgy fishing is really starting to come to life in the middle now. It is still quality over quantity but many trips this week, especially the evening trips saw some decent drops on the big scup to go along with the bass and blues.

Lots and lots of cocktail blues all over the surface on most days. Today we fished in Smithtown Bay as acres of blues were on the surface. The smaller diamond jigs have been the ticket as the blues are feeding on very small peanut bunker right now. Porgy fishing has been a little slow the last few days on the inshore grounds. Our best drops seem to be in the deeper water now where it has been quality over quantity. Many of these scup weighed in over 2 lbs this week. Hopefully the numbers increase a bit in the upcoming days.

All out slaughter of the blue fish today. Huge schools of blues were all along the beach from Mt Sinai to Smithtown Bay feasting on peanut bunker. Limited out by 8 am with several guys easily catching over 30 blues a piece of which of course they only retained their limit. The huge schools of bluefish was quite a sight to behold.

Everywhere you looked today you could see huge schools of blues like the ones shown here.

Picture of our Fish Finder Today showing a huge school of fish under the boat. At this point the entire boat was hooked up
at the same time!!

Porgy fishing has definitely improved a lot this week with some quality fish now starting to show on the local rock piles. Had some good drops recently off both Cranes and Mt Sinai .

Also the last few days there has been acres of cocktail blues on the surface off cedar beach. Bring your spinning pole if you have one as the casters especially are having a blast with all these fish. Today was incredibly rough which put a damper on the bass and blue fishing as we were very limited in where we could fish. We did have a nice mess of porgies though despite the lousy conditions. Looking forward to getting back out there with nicer conditions.

Nice day with Tom Rock and friends today. Enjoyed some ferocious bass and bluefish action on jigs in the morning. Some real big blues to 10 lbs and a few keeper bass in the mix. Chunked one 18lb Striper on the slack. Finished the day with some decent fluke action off B11.

Fun day!

Well, it was a remarkable fluke season, the best I can remember. So fun while it lasted.

Wednesday was the last good day of fluking and it has been slow ever since. As of today we will be switching over to our Mixed Bag Bonanza trips!!!

We have had some great results the last few days on both the bass and blues as well as BIG scup. This mornings trip saw all fares limit out on scup by 9:30! Last nights trip also saw some great porgy fishing to end the night.

Both the chunk bite as well as the jigging has been productive on both bass and bluefish. Should be especially good with the full moon this week.

J.P.

The Fluke fishing was excellent on the outgoing tide this morning at b11.

Our crew was out bass fishing today and reported incredible fishing with bass up to 33 lbs on chunks.

We had a school trip today and missed it all!

Anyway, we hope to keep up with these fluke for as long as we can. Also we are going to incorporate the bass fishing into our trips when the conditions are right!

Mixed bag bonanza is here now until blackfish season!

Today wasn't crazy fishing like it has been, but still it was a good days fluking at B11.

About 50 keepers to 4 lbs, tons of shorts.

Beautiful day out there.

We didnt know what to expect today after all the bad weather.

Thankfully though, the fluke were still thick and hungry today. Great day out there!

10 fares aboard easily limited out on nice fat fluke up to 6.5 lbs. The fluke are still snappin'.

Bucktails and straight spearing worked best.