Connecticut Fishing Reports

Lots of Fish, But No Trophies.... - We've had several trips over the past two weeks. First we went out with Californians, Sean Murphy and his teen-aged son. They got more than a dozen stripers, some fluke, and a load of nice porgies up to 16″. The following day our group was more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Bait and more bait - Its been a pretty tough summer so far. The water temps have kept the stripers out in cooler water. The squid run hasn't been anything to get excited about. Last week we started seeing an influx of baby bunker and silversides. There were some schools more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

CRAZY WEATHER--SUPER HOT TO COOL AND BACK TO HOT AGAIN.... - Thursday's trip (July 12) was with My Bonnie regular, Gary Lattrell of Poughkeepsie NY. He brought along two guests, Joe Seo of Hyde Park and Tim Carroll of Pleasant Valley. Although the weather was perfect, we had a very slow start--with no action more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Tale of two tides - This past week saw outstanding fishing on the ebb tide. Stripers and blues were feeding hard on the outgoing tide, three-wayed bucktails produced stripers up to 37 and bluefish to 14lbs. The flood tide was VERY slow with both species in the race. Tr more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

HOT, HOT, HOT.... - The weather was cool and dry on Tuesday, June 26, and we sailed at 7:30am with Joe Walsh of NYC and his niece and nephew, Sam and Alex. But the winds came up quite suddenly and stayed with us throughout the trip. But the family did well with lots of more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Wild Weather Swings, But Fishing's Been Good.... - We fished on Thursday morning with B.J. Grinage of Pittsburgh PA and his brother, Bryan, and Bryan's son, Winston (L.B.) along with B.J.'s dad, Berchman Grinage–all from North Carolina. The family enjoyed bringing in porgies and fluke. The afterno more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Slamming stripers! - Joe Rizzo and crew slammed the stripers Friday afternoon/evening. They landed a dozen keepers in 2 hrs. and were tossing back keepers in the 34-37 class thereafter. Finished the trip with explosive topwater bluefish action! Sat. morning's trip saw a more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Hot fluking - This past fathers day weekend saw a slow bite with the bass while bluefish made up the bulk of the catch. Fluke fishing on the other hand was very good on fathers day with plenty of action and a limit of keepers. I expect a new slug of bass will ente more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

THE HEAT IS ON..... - On Thursday we fished with David Kent, a British Columbian native, currently living in Dubai. It was windy, so he couldn't use a fly rod, which he prefers, but–he boated 12 striped bass and one bluefish on light tackle with bucktail lures. Friday' more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Great weather and great fishing! - This past weekend found bass and blue's in the Race and fluke off of Fisher's. Fri night Harold and Shawn caught fish on almost every drift using bucktails. Fish were crashing the surface as well as holding deep. Saturday we concentrated on the fluke more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound