Fishing Reports by Capt. Sal Tardella

A Busy Week With Lots of Families - Topwater action has slowed somewhat, but we fished on Wednesday with Robin Killoran, who brought in a few bluefish on the surface as well as some short fluke and small sea bass and nice porgies Friday's trip was with Stephen Kim of Briarcliff Man more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Busy schedule in late August.... - We fished last Wednesday with Dr. David Yan of Fairfield, his parents, and his 10-year-old son, Zack. The doc knew how to handle a rod and reel, but the others were all beginners. They did manage, however, to bring in porgies up to 14, bluefish up more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Lots of Families...Lots of Fish - Saturday, August 4, was very hot and humid, but we fished with Ronald Herzlinger of New York City, and with his two young sons, Sam and Gabriel. The family caught close to a dozen harbor blues on the surface, as well as a nice catch of porgies up to more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Lots of Fish, But No Trophies.... - We've had several trips over the past two weeks. First we went out with Californians, Sean Murphy and his teen-aged son. They got more than a dozen stripers, some fluke, and a load of nice porgies up to 16″. The following day our group was more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

CRAZY WEATHER--SUPER HOT TO COOL AND BACK TO HOT AGAIN.... - Thursday's trip (July 12) was with My Bonnie regular, Gary Lattrell of Poughkeepsie NY. He brought along two guests, Joe Seo of Hyde Park and Tim Carroll of Pleasant Valley. Although the weather was perfect, we had a very slow start--with no action more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

HOT, HOT, HOT.... - The weather was cool and dry on Tuesday, June 26, and we sailed at 7:30am with Joe Walsh of NYC and his niece and nephew, Sam and Alex. But the winds came up quite suddenly and stayed with us throughout the trip. But the family did well with lots of more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Wild Weather Swings, But Fishing's Been Good.... - We fished on Thursday morning with B.J. Grinage of Pittsburgh PA and his brother, Bryan, and Bryan's son, Winston (L.B.) along with B.J.'s dad, Berchman Grinage–all from North Carolina. The family enjoyed bringing in porgies and fluke. The afterno more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

THE HEAT IS ON..... - On Thursday we fished with David Kent, a British Columbian native, currently living in Dubai. It was windy, so he couldn't use a fly rod, which he prefers, but–he boated 12 striped bass and one bluefish on light tackle with bucktail lures. Friday' more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

It's mid-June, and the Sound is coming alive.... - Larger striped bass have been caught on bunker chunks--with the average keeper 31-38; bluefish of all sizes are coming in--using topwater poppers--in 60-80 ft. depths. Fluke are being caught, but most of them are shorts. We haven't seen porgies on more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

It's finally starting.... - We've had our boat in the water for about ten days now, and we've done some scouting, but there's nothing exciting to report. Some local fishermen tell of getting decent-sized stripers in the early morning hours--using fresh bunker chunks. Others h more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands