Norwalk Islands Fishing Reports

Very Little Change From Last Week Except for the Weather... - Friday (9/24) was a beautiful day on Long Island Sound. We sailed at 10am with Ben Moeling of Norwalk (currently stationed in Iraq,) along with John Kavounas of Greenwich and Sean Sharpless of Charlotte, NC. We headed for mid-Sound, where we found more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Porgies are still the best bet.... - We fished on Friday afternoon with Marc Pfefferle of Westport, who was hosting business colleagues– a Tom Donnelly of Pound Ridge, Dana Klein of Darien and Craig Winslow of Stamford. The party enjoyed a mixed bag of keeper porgies, schoolie stripe more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Porgies dominated the week.... - We had three trips this week. All of the results were basically the same. Some large bluefish and dozens of porgies. We did chase done some bonito, with no success. Water temps have been very high, which might be contributing to the lacklus more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Pretty Ho-Hum Week - Only a couple of charters this week; very strange for mid-late August. We had to cancel Sunday's trip because of foul weather all day. We got lots of nice porgies and a few blues and schoolie bass earlier in the week. Lots of bait and birds in t more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

NON-STOP HEAT, BUT THE FISHING'S PRETTY GOOD - Friday was another scorcher, but we fished with David Stueber of Darien and his 11-year-old son, Andrew. We started out looking for some fresh bunker, after which we moved toward mid-Sound, where we anchored up. After a considerable amount of chummin more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Porgies Make for Tight Lines.... - Throughout the week we had to work in high 90's temps and high humidity, as well. The weather finally turned a bit more comfortable on Saturday, but our customers have had mainly porgies with some bluefish here and there for the past several days. more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Still hot out there, and every day brings something different... - We've been experiencing a six-week heat wave in our area, but we've been getting our passengers into bluefish of all sizes, some nice fluke and porgies and a smattering of striped bass. However, there's been little consistency from day to day--and more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Fishing In A Heat Wave All Week.... - July 4 was a scorcher–-close to 100 degrees throughout the whole trip. We went over to the Long Island side–-which seemed to be the only place for guaranteed action–and our six passengers enjoyed great action bringing in scores of small bluefish. Abo more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Blues are the name of the game this week... - The headline for the whole week has been lots of small blues on the Long Island side of the Sound. We also had some keeper fluke and schoolie bass, but it was bluefish that kept our passengers busy. The Connecticut shoreline and Norwalk Islands ha more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Very unpredictable action this week.... - The weather has greatly improved, but the fish seem to be schizophrenic. They're never in the same spot during the same tide two days in a row. We've been getting schoolie bass with some keepers thrown in, small blues, some fluke and porgies, but more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands