Fishing Reports by Capt. Sal Tardella

Report for Long Island Sound - It was another week of foggy mornings, wet decks, bumpy waters, and cold temperature, but we had a few days of good fishing in spite of it all. David Bellner from Stamford, a first-timer aboard “My Bonnie”--and three buddies--had fun with schoolie more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - We had a very busy week, although we had to deal with high winds and low temps on most trips. Peter Armstrong, visiting from Liverpool, England, had great day fishing off of Sunken Island near Bridgeport, with 18 bass up to 26” and a few blues—all more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - We fished with a long-time regular, Frank Chieffalo of Wilton, and a friend from Arizona--and had a tough, cold day, and logging lots of hours on the engine. We fished the Lilco stacks in search of bass; finding none we moved Stamford—where we’d hea more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - We fished three times three this week. On Sunday we caught schoolie bass around the Norwalk Islands and across the Sound near the Northport stacks; and while fishing for bass, a keeper fluke was also caught. The next day, a cold and damp morning, w more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Report for Long Island Sound - Captain Sal Tardella reports that his sometimes-mate, Emilio Pandolfi of Danbury, went along with him for their first scouting trip of the season—and to help break in the boat’s new Yamaha 225HP 4-stroke engine. They worked around the Norwalk Island more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

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