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MONTAUK
ORIENT/PECONICS- FLORIDA
NEW ENGLAND SALMON RIVER LOCAL: 5/16-More reports of Weak Fish 4 to 7 lbs mixed in with the Stripers after dark on Swimmers and Droppers. 5/12-Surf casters reporting a fair amount of Stripers to 15lbs being caught after dark on swimmers and dropper combos. First confirmed reports of Weak Fish to 7lbs, again, after dark on swimming plugs. Cocktail Blues have arrived in decent numbers along the local beaches taking popping plugs and tin early in the AM and late in the PM. Boaters are getting keeper Fluke in close on spearing/squid combos and spro bucktail rigs. Plenty of shorts mixed with some keepers in 25' or more of water. Stripers to about 20lbs at the buoys being trolled and jigged and at 50' on bait and jigs. Some BIG Porgies being caught along the beaches, but, the better catches have been in more than 20' of water. 5/4-Stripers on the outside in forty or less foot of water from eastern Smithtown bay through Riverhead with the occasional blue. Fluking using squid/spearing combos, bucktails has been so so since opening. Getting mixed reports, we need the weather. Big Porgies have been reported on worms and clams both on the beach out to about 25' of water. 4/22-Keeper Stripers have been reported in the open water in forty feet to the beach from Stony Brook through Riverhead. Smaller fish have been reported in all the harbors. Flounder fishing has unexpectedly picked up greatly, with catches of two to three lbers both in the harbors and on the outside in 10' to 15' of water on sandworms and clams. 4/13-As expected the Flounder fishing is not what it use to be, however, some of the keepers in Port Jefferson and Conscience Bay have been between two and three lbs. Stripers have been reported in the harbors and on the outside working over sandeels, spearing and herring. 4/4-Flounder opening here on the north shore was SLLLOOOWWW. A few customers that ventured west to Huntington and Northport and chummed heavy did manage to limit out (two fish). If you don't already know, the spring blackfish season is closed and won't open until October. The Striper fishing, that hasn't stopped all winter long, is picking up with fresh fish mixing in each day. West is where you want to go for bigger fish. 3/22-I just got back from the Keys today and have the store up and running for the 2012 season. Customers have been coming in telling me that they have been picking away at the Stripers all winter long and, with the warmest water temps on record for this time of year, have heard rumors of some Blues caught in the south shore bays.
MONTAUK ORIENT/PECONICS- NORTH SHORE FLORIDA NEW ENGLAND SALMON RIVER 5/12-Fluke, Stripers and Blues are hot now both in the bays and on the outside. 5/4-Big Blues and stripers to 20lbs being reported from Moriches to Jamaica bay. A lot of squid showing in the bays around Freeport. Both Fluke and Flounder reports have been spotty with the weather. 4/22-The best Striper and Flounder fishing is west, however, size and quantity is increasing each day in Moriches and Shinnecock bays. Blues to five lbs have been reported along with a few Weak fish. 4/13-Flounder fishing has picked up in Shinnecock and Moriches bay on sandworms, calms and plenty of chum. Striper and Blues being reported in the bays and on the outside all the way to Montauk. 4/4-South shore did much better than the north on opening day, but the better reports came from way west. Striper
fishing in the bays and on the open beach is hit or miss, but, if you are where
the bunker and bait fish are there have been some 40" fish reported. One
customer reported plenty of shorts under the Smith Point Bridge with a few Blues
mixed in.
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