Connecticut Fishing Reports

Bait and more bait - Most people know that this has been a pretty tough year for those that like to use flies and artificials for bass and bluefish. The good news is that some bonito have arrived in our area earlier than usual. They were at Watch Hill for a few days and more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Steady catches now the norm.... - August has brought unexpectedly mild weather with temperatures staying below 85 almost every day. We've been going out several times a week throughout the summer, with a bit more action this month (which always happens as folks realize that vacati more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

This past week - Fishing has provided consistent striped bass catches with the exception of Sunday. Using live bunker and hickory shad have been the ticket to landing large stripers and bluefish. Local reefs and the Gut have been holding stripers in the 34-40 class. more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

July Has Brought the Fish Closer to Home.... - Over the past couple of weeks we've been getting sea bass, bluefish, and stripers as well as porgies on some days and an occasional fluke. Bunker schools have arrived, and some of them are holding larger bluefish and striped bass beneath. I enj more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

7/19 weekend - This past weekend was similar to the year. Some very good trips and some slow trips. Saturday and Sun. were a pick of stripers, blues, and sea bass. Monday and Tuesday were slammer big striper days caught on live bunker which is still plentiful insid more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Bass moving in - This past week has seen increasing numbers of fish starting to show on top. There is a lot of small bait arriving which is helping. Most of the fish are schoolies but we'll take that. We saw our first schools of adult bunker that were not in a river. more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

The catch is still unpredictable... - What happened yesterday probably won't happen today, and what happens today probably won't happen tomorrow. No consistency or predictability when you leave the dock. We've been getting a variety of fish including small stripers, medium-size blues more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Inconsistent fishing this week - This past week saw some good catches, and some not so good. The fishing has remained consistently inconsistent. We have landed some very nice stripers this week drifting bunker. Fish in the 25-40 lb range have cooperated, just not in big numbers. We more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Bass fishing starting to pick up. - After a slower than slow start to our season the bass are starting to show up and are taking flies. There has been a noticeable lack of squid for them to eat and it wasn't until the small butterfish and herring arrived that brought the bass around t more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

The fish are finally heading our way.... - Now that the weather has warmed up somewhat, we're finding porgies, sea bass, fluke, medium-size bluefish, schoolies and large stripers (at night or very early in the morning.) Huge sand eel hatches have been spotted on the northern shores of L.I. more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands