Connecticut Fishing Reports

New Haven Harbor, Guilford & Stratford - The fishing in New Haven is still on the slow side. There is still top water blues almost every evening. I had a trip On Saturday morning. We tried a long shot and went for Blackfish. I have been wanting to give it a shot before the season closes. more...
Capt. Pat Juliano - New Haven

Report for Long Island Sound - Sunday morning we sailed with David Schaefer, Tom Holleman, Mike Miller, and Pat Chapman--all of Westport. We started out catching some bluefish while blindcasting. Then we changed strategy and went after porgies, catching 40--among which were 18 k more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Saturday's charter took place during the Long Island Sound Bluefish Contest, and there was a lot of boat traffic everywhere. But David Sarda of Greenwich and his two sons, as well as a Swedish visitor, Jan, enjoyed great top-water action almost imme more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Eastern Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound - This past weekend on the Kingfisher. Thursday worked out very well for our new regular weekly customer Richard Stone. They nailed a few nice Stripers and a bunch of blues in the Race. Friday and Saturday were trips chasing small tuna and blues t more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Report for Long Island Sound - Thursday we sailed with Dr. Larry Fliegelman of Weston, Andy Kail of Westport and Jeff Kahn of Ridgewood NJ. We started out working around the Norwalk Islands, where we picked up some shoolie stripers on sandworms. When we moved eastward toward West more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Thursday we sailed with Dr. Larry Fliegelman of Weston, Andy Kail of Westport and Jeff Kahn of Ridgewood NJ. We started out working around the Norwalk Islands, where we picked up some shoolie stripers on sandworms. When we moved eastward toward West more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Sunday's trip was with another newcomer...Steven Umlauf of Greenwich and his young son, Steven Jr. Although there was a lot of afternoon boat traffic, we managed a nice catch of schoolie stripers and a mess of porgies up to 15. Bad weather kept u more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - On Friday morning Bill Bendix of Norwalk brought his two sons, Alex and Tucker, for their first trip with us. Although they often fish aboard their own boat, this was the boys' first experience catching striped bass. The boys tallied about a dozen, u more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Eastern Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound - Weekend report from the Kingfisher This past weekend started out with the Roberts group getting four nice stripers to 43, and all the bluefish they wanted. The bluefish are pretty much automatic with fish from 8 to 12 pounds. Sunday brought bac more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Report for Long Island Sound - Monday we sailed with Lee Mitchell of Darien and his father-in-law, visiting from the Lone Star State. Bass up to 27.5 came in and some slammer blues, after which we found a body of smaller blues off of Westport feeding on the surface, and the acti more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands