Fishing Reports by Capt. Sal Tardella

Report for Long Island Sound - We racked the Hydra-Sports bay boat on March 31 and returned from Sebastian, Florida, two weeks ago. However, because of a delay in the installation of a new 225HP 4-stroke Yamaha engine on our home-base vessel, a 25-foot C-Sport, we’re not yet back more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Sebastian Florida - WINTER FISHING IN SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA We've been fishing in Sebastian since January 1. For the past two weeks we've been catching monster crevalle jacks in the Inlet, as well as some huge reds--up to 30 lbs.--caught on live pinfish (which are hard more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Report for Long Island Sound - We stayed in port most of the week because of the hurricane-strength gusts, but we did manage a nice trip on Sunday, jigging up bass and blues at 11B. When we moved closer to shore and found a large school of bass on the surface; there was non-stop a more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - We fished with Emilio Pandolfi and had a great day with blues and bass on the surface off of Sherwood Park--and then we jigged up large bass in the same spot. For three days we were the camera boat for an ESPN filming production highlighting the more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Pete Moccia of Katonah and his party of three had a great day jigging up bass up to 26 off the Obstruction Buoy. Doug Mackay of New Canaan and his group had some blues on top, but we had to spend a lot of time chasing them down. Not too many hook- more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - On Saturday Bill Wilcox and I found large bluefish (8-12 pounds) feeding on bunker in the early morning in Wilson Cove. The next day we sailed with My Bonnie regular, Scott Brydson of Norwalk, and his friend, J.C. of Redding. They did very well, more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - We sailed with Dr. Sinfronio Fronie Eway of Harrison, NY and found some fish off Sherwood Island. There was a nice mix of porgies and sea bass, and several were boated. Wilson Point is still holding a large body of bluefish with bass mixed in. more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Mark Haas of New York City and his party fished Wilson Cove and found large bluefish underneath the bunker. They live-lined the bunker and came in with blues up to 12 pounds. Bruce LeFoure and two friends fished Southport, where we chunked up a ni more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Mark Greenberg and some business associates from DeutscheBank had a great afternoon with large blues caught on live bunker in Wilson Cove. Then we found smaller bluefish off of Green's Ledge Light--with everyone bringing in blues using light tackle a more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Carl Correnti of Fairfield brought along three colleagues last week. We fished Wilson Cove and brought in school bass, using Creek Chubs. We then caught a large bass on live bunker, but it was lost on its way to the boat. There wasn't any surface more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands