Fishing Reports by Capt. Sal Tardella

Report for Long Island Sound - Our first charter of the season was with Murray Verlin of Westport and his chauffeur, Donnie. The twosome brought in 20 striped bass and one keeper fluke at 19. All were caught on light tackle around the Norwalk Islands. On Saturday Dan Messerve more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Our first charter of the season was with Murray Verlin of Westport and his chauffeur, Donnie. The twosome brought in 20 striped bass and one keeper fluke at 19. All were caught on light tackle around the Norwalk Islands. On Saturday Dan Messerve more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Well, My Bonnie is finally in the water--where she belongs--and we're set for the season's first charter this Saturday. Reports have come in to the effect that there are tons of bunker throughout Long Island Sound. Local fishermen have been catc more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - We won't have a fishing report for a couple of weeks. We closed up our Florida boat last week and have since returned to Connecticut. Our Norwalk boat has been totally overhauled and is still under a tarpaulin. As soon as we launch My Bonnie and more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Sebastian Florida - Our final Florida fishing trip took place on April 2. Rick Pino of Sebastian shared my boat with me, and we had to deal with yet another day of winds and bumpy water. But we hung in there and caught lots of nice sea trout in the river and some su more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Report for Sebastian Florida - The winds in our area have been fairly constant, and the fishing for the past ten days has been quite ho-hum On our last excursion--March 16--Rick Pino and I spent a lot of time up and down the Indian River and for our efforts were minimally rewa more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Report for Sebastian Florida - Restaurant chef, Jim Whitford of Staten Island NY, and his schoolteacher wife, Lynn--and Lynn's dad, Tom Wiegelmann of Sebastian FL and New Hampshire, had a great afternoon fishing with us the last week of February. They brought in a mixed bag of po more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Report for Sebastian Florida - On February 17th we had a charter with Dr. Steve Eliot of Weston CT and his friend, Ralph Sorley--a Chatham MA resident who lives in Palm Beach Gardens FL six months a year. Steve, an avid fisherman, considers himself to be a My Bonnie scout--and t more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Report for Sebastian Florida - Well, Emilio (Amin) Pandolfi of Danbury arrived down here last Thursday. As soon as he unpacked his one suitcase, we took him out to the Indian River to catch some pinfish and pigfish so we'd be ready to do some offshore fishing the following day. more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Report for Sebastian Florida - The weather has been very uncooperative for the past week-to-ten days. Temperatures dropped severely, and the colder waters haven't been at all attractive to the local species. We haven't seen any redfish in the Inlet since we had our fine catch in m more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian