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Report for Long Island Sound
Capt. Sal Tardella
August 23, 2006
Norwalk Islands - Saltwater Fishing Report
On Wednesday we sailed with Jeremy and Dana Willinger of Stamford—who are “My Bonnie” veterans. They had a wonderful morning, landing lots of 4-6 pound bluefish on the surface off of Cockenoe--using Creek Chub plugs. On the inside they picked up schoolie bass up to 26”, on bucktail lures. Further into the trip in 60-foot water they jigged up more than a dozen blues up to 12 blues, and three bass, including one keeper at 29”.
Thursday’s trip was with Bill Maniscalco, Jr. of Palatine, Illinois—a suburb of Chicago—along with his father, Bill Sr. of Darien, and brother, Anthony. We started out catching school-sized bass up to 24”, after which we found blues on the surface off of Goose Island all 3-5 pounds. The day ended with more school bass and blues up to 11 pounds off of Copp’s.
Murray Verlin of Stamford and NYC returned for another trip with us on Friday. He brought along two of his employees to share in the fun. Everyone got into bluefish in Middle Passage; they were hitting peanut bunker on the surface, and the action was nonstop. When they got bored pulling in blues, we moved to deeper water, where we found porgies; there were more than two dozen boated, but most of them were not keepers. We finished off the day with school bass caught on bucktails.
Saturday was a beautiful morning to be on the water. David Schaefer of Stamford brought along friends, Ed and Patrick—all newcomers to “My Bonnie”. We found bluefish on top off of Brown’s Point and plugged up many using Creek Chub and Gag poppers. Next we moved to Goose, where everyone continued to haul in blues. The party wanted to fish for bass, so we moved towards Westport, where they got their fill of schoolie bass as well as porgies.
Sunday morning we sailed with New York City residents, Yaki and Allison Kapadia. This was their first excursion on Long Island Sound. My mate, Bryan Kerschner, and I gave them a quick lesson in using a spin caster, and they quickly learned how to reel in all of the bluefish that were on the surface midSound. We wanted to show them how to catch striped bass, as well, so we moved inshore, where they caught stripers up to 25”. They were interested in trying for other species; we thought they’d enjoy porgy fishing, and so we made our way towards Southport and found a nice body of fish that provided non-stop action, bagging about 40—with 90 per cent of the scup being keepers, but they kept only three for the table. Our afternoon trip was with Bob and Hazel Siegel of Bedford NY, who own a 38-foot Pursuit, moored in Stamford; they booked us again to learn more about various fishing techniques, and were rewarded with bluefish up to 8 pounds, caught on poppers. The action was terrific, but the couple was too soon arm weary and called it quits after about three hours on the water.
We had another double header on Monday. First, Bill Walbert with his son, David—as well as another father and son, Jeff and Max Shaw—all New Canaanites. They had great action at Copp’s with bluefish on top, followed by a catch of nice stripers off of Westport. Our afternoon trip included Steve Kelly of Danbury and three buddies—Bill Skidd of Norwalk, Paul Wintergerst of New Rochelle and Jason Rutka of Arizona. It was a very slow start, but when we moved to 28C and the tide began to run, all the boys got into bluefish up to 9 pounds, caught on bunker chunks.
Tuesday morning we sailed with Michael Cohen of NYC and Westport; he brought along his regular fishing companion—young son, Benji—and the boy’s friend, Sandy. They had plenty of action with blues, striped bass and tons of porgies.
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