Long Island Sound Fishing Reports

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

The fish and bait are arriving for the Summer - This past week has shown an incerease in the amount of baitfish and stripers in our waters. The fish are all between five and fifteen pounds. There are some squid starting to show with some well over a foot long. On the way back to the dock I passed more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

THE FISH ARE IN ! - The race was full of bass from school size fish to some BIG fish as well. Trips the last couple of days saw limits of bass up to 37,we released numbers fish (half being keeper size). A strong ebb tide had bass huging the bottom so three-way ed sassy more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Its been a long winter - We launched the boat this morning and took it for a short test run.I brought along a spinning rod mainly because that's all the equipment that I have ready at this moment. Everything worked just like its supposed to. I made two quick stops and after more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Its definitely Fall - We have had pretty good luck with the albies for the past several weeks. Both on fly and spin gear. They are moving around so they may not be in the same place two days in a row.The water temps are falling steadily but the bay anchovies are sticking more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Consistancy - When the weather allows it the fishing has been pretty consistent this past week. All of the regular species are around. We had two Grand Slams on Thursday with each angler catching a striper, a bluefish a bonito and an albie on the same trip. Their more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Albies show up after the storm - This past weekends storm plus the full moon have provided us with a nice supply of bait and fish. The albies showed up coastwide on Tuesday and they were in an eating frame of mind. Their primary choice were baby butterfish. there were some bonito mi more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

55 Pound Bass Caught aboard the Kingfisher - Brett Torrey came down with his son Matt, Bruce Lemieux and his son Tim, and a friend Leo to try their luck catching a big striper on live bait. The bait didn't quite cooperate but the group still managed to fill the live well after some work getting more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound