Long Island Sound Fishing Reports

Excellent fishing and weather continue..... - to provide charters with good times. This past week we have had to use a variety of artificals due to the continued lack of bait in the area. Diamond jigs and 3 wayed plastic swim baits have produced big #s of bluefish along with keeper and school s more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

The butterfish are here and the stripers are eating - This past week saw the annual influx of baby butterfish and they brought the stripers with them. I was out on Monday and there were plenty of bass up to 15 lbs. On Tuesday it was the same scenario except the fish were a bit smaller. The butters are s more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Weekend of 7/30 - Fri. mornining's trip to Southwest Ledge (Block Island) landed 3 TROPHY Stripers 45-48 using live eels on spinning gear. Numbers of blue's were also landed. Fri's pm trip started with some fluke fishing that produced a couple keepers. A short run t more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

!st 50 of the year landed aboard Kingfisher - Big stripers have moved into the area along with some large blue's. On Sun. 7/11 Mike Weber and crew landed a bunch of stripers that included a fat 45lb fish on a live shad. The next day Sean Roberson landed 4 big stripers between 38-40 on live bait more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Week in review - Monday afternoon's trip saw Jim and his crew land numerous blue's in the 10 lb. class trolling parachutes around Race Rock to go with a couple stripers. Tuesday Jim Lee and his wife used live hickories to land stripers to 38 in the Race. Finished more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

The stocking truck finally arrived - I went out by myself on Wednesday morning to see if I could find any signs of life. My first cast netted a 12 lb. bluefish. That was followed by a steady pick of 8 - 12 lb. stripers which lasted for several hours. I picked up another big bluefish and more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Shad & Big Stripers - Alan Wolhstrom and crew continued their yearly BIG fish bonanza on Friday 7/02. Shad were biting until the sun brightened, then shut off completely. Alan and I were able to catch 8-10 for the rest of the crew that arrived shortly after first light. W more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

The fish are here but you have to work for them. - This past week has been consistently tough on fly casters and spin fishers. The bass are here but they don't want to come up to the surface unless there is a school of bait being washed through. We are finding one or two fish in each spot that we sto more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

This past week - On Fri. 6/13 George Chase and crew enjoyed a beautiful evening trip that saw calm waters, great sunset views, and good fishing.We started looking for topwater action on the Watch Hill reefs but the fish were not there. We headed over to the race and more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

New schools of Bass are moving in - Lately we have seen changes in the size of the average fish being caught. We started out with 10-12 lb. fish with no sea lice on them. That changed to 10-12 lb. bass loaded with lice and now the average sized fish is 6-8lbs. also loaded with lice. Th more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound