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Report for Long Island Sound
Capt. Sal Tardella
November 6, 2005
Norwalk Islands - Saltwater Fishing Report
On Tuesday--with Murray Verlin of Stamford aboard for his fifth trip of the year--this time bringing along his niece, Trina Hamlin. We started out at the Obstruction Buoy, but the action was very slow. Then near Buoy 13 at Eaton’s Neck we marked a lot of bait, but nothing was hitting them. Finally, after moving west towards Lloyd’s Neck, we got Verlin and his niece into a lot of striped bass and a half a dozen blues, all caught on diamond jigs. Trina is a cabaret singer who travels the U.S.A. with her original songs, accompanying herself with guitar and harmonica. This was her first saltwater fishing experience, and she was thrilled with her catch; maybe she’ll write a song about it!
Thursday was fairly warm, but quite windy. Regardless of conditions, nothing would keep me from taking out my good friend, Rick Pino—a Long Island native—visiting from Sebastian, Florida. (When I fish in Sebastian over the winter months, my boat is tied up at Rick’s dock.) We concentrated on the Saugatuck River, where we caught about 30 striped bass on bucktail with Mr. Twister lures.
On Friday the weather was quite balmy and the seas were almost flat. Wayne Heyland and his buddy, Don, enjoyed a fantastic catch of blues up to 15 pounds while jigging off of 11B and then a mixed bag of striped bass 3-6 pounds and bluefish 5-7 pounds at Lloyds—all on diamond jigs.
Ernest Todd and his son, Matt, and two friends had to endure a long and slow day of fishing on Saturday. We returned to our productive source of the previous day, Lloyd’s Neck, where we saw lots of birds working. However it was like fishing in the desert. We moved to the O.B. and Buoy 13, where there were lots of other fishing boats, but no fish coming in. There was a mini armada at 11B, probably because of the warm weather, but pickins’ were slow there, as well. I decided to make a drastic change and switched tactics in pursuit of blackfish, and we caught several off the Norwalk Islands, plus a few schoolie bass.
Michael Cohen and his son, Ben, took their final trip of the season with us on Sunday. It was a chilly, foggy morning, but we did very well, tallying 23 stripers up to 25”—all along the shores of Norwalk and Westport.
I’ll be pulling my boat on November 15 and getting it ready for winter storage. My wife, Bonnie, and I will be leaving for a four-month stay in Sebastian, Florida, where I take out charters on the Indian River and the Sebastian Inlet starting in early December.
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