Fishing Reports by Capt. Sandy Noyes

The stocking truck finally arrived - I went out by myself on Wednesday morning to see if I could find any signs of life. My first cast netted a 12 lb. bluefish. That was followed by a steady pick of 8 - 12 lb. stripers which lasted for several hours. I picked up another big bluefish and more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

The fish are here but you have to work for them. - This past week has been consistently tough on fly casters and spin fishers. The bass are here but they don't want to come up to the surface unless there is a school of bait being washed through. We are finding one or two fish in each spot that we sto more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

New schools of Bass are moving in - Lately we have seen changes in the size of the average fish being caught. We started out with 10-12 lb. fish with no sea lice on them. That changed to 10-12 lb. bass loaded with lice and now the average sized fish is 6-8lbs. also loaded with lice. Th more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

The fish and bait are arriving for the Summer - This past week has shown an incerease in the amount of baitfish and stripers in our waters. The fish are all between five and fifteen pounds. There are some squid starting to show with some well over a foot long. On the way back to the dock I passed more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Its been a long winter - We launched the boat this morning and took it for a short test run.I brought along a spinning rod mainly because that's all the equipment that I have ready at this moment. Everything worked just like its supposed to. I made two quick stops and after more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Its definitely Fall - We have had pretty good luck with the albies for the past several weeks. Both on fly and spin gear. They are moving around so they may not be in the same place two days in a row.The water temps are falling steadily but the bay anchovies are sticking more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Consistancy - When the weather allows it the fishing has been pretty consistent this past week. All of the regular species are around. We had two Grand Slams on Thursday with each angler catching a striper, a bluefish a bonito and an albie on the same trip. Their more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Albies show up after the storm - This past weekends storm plus the full moon have provided us with a nice supply of bait and fish. The albies showed up coastwide on Tuesday and they were in an eating frame of mind. Their primary choice were baby butterfish. there were some bonito mi more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Bass and Bluefish starting to pick up - Last week we saw the disappearance of Bonito , but they were replaced by good sized schools of smaller Bass and Bluefish.To get the eight to ten lb. Blues we have to go just a bit farther. We did catch a couple of Bonito by accident. They were mixed more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Bonito - After a weeks vacation we were at it again. It seems that most of the bass and blues have disapeared from our area for a while. We have been traveling in search of bonito. We found more on the second day than the first. You do have to go a bit farthe more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound