Eastern Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound
Capt. Mark Anderson
July 12, 2004
Long Island Sound - Saltwater Fishing Report
Fishing Report from Kingfisher Charters in Mystic, CT
This past weekend Bruce Lawrence brought out his wife and grandmother to catch a few sharks. We’ll Bruce did the catching while the women took the pictures. The weather was perfect for the seasoned shark fisherman but a little rough for the novice. We also had to contend with the armada of boats out fishing from the snug harbor shark tournament. With all that we still had about a 250lb. blue shark on in the first half an hour, another half an hour later we had a thresher take a bite out of two baits but decided to leave the hooked part. It was exciting to the group just to see that tail come out of the water as it dove down to the mackerel bait. One more blue shark for the group and they had enough. Trolled up some bass at the Montauk rips to finish up the day.
Sunday, Wade High and friends came out for stripers and fluke. Started out looking for Hickory Shad to live line to some big stripers but they were missing in action. The day before, you could see shad working over bait for acres. It won’t be long before they take up residence for the summer and become easy pickings for our Live Bait trips. With no shad we went to plan B and trolled parachutes around Fisher’s Island. Started picking up bluefish right away with the occasional 28” or so bass. After putting everyone on a couple fish apiece we decided to look for some bigger fish. Our next stop the fish were stacked up on the uptide side of a local hump. Again everyone enjoyed fighting a couple fish apiece but this time the fish ranged from 34” to a real nice 47” hog caught by Wade. They finished up with a few good sized keeper fluke and a mess of skates. Beautiful weather, great fishing, and I met a bunch of really nice people. It doesn’t get much better than that for me. The last two weeks of July historically have been our most productive trips fishing with Live Bait for big stripers. Our weekends are filled up but we still have a few weekday trips available if you would like to get in on the action. Give us a call at 860-573-3614 or check out our website at http://www.geocities.com/kaiser11/kingfishercharters.html
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