Connecticut Fishing Reports

Fall has arrived - After the waters calmed down from the missed hurricane the fishing started to pick up again. The bluefish have been around everyday.The only changes are the sizes. One day they are big and the next day they are around five lbs. We had our first showi more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Porgies dominated the week.... - We had three trips this week. All of the results were basically the same. Some large bluefish and dozens of porgies. We did chase done some bonito, with no success. Water temps have been very high, which might be contributing to the lacklus more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Monster blue's and ...... - Stipers too! We have been consistently catching lots of LARGE bluefish to 17 1bs. on all methods of fishing. Live bait, top water, jigging and trolling have all produced catches of at least 30-40 fish per trip with a few large stripers hittng baits t more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

Everyday is different - This was a funny week fish wise. At the beginning of the week we were getting more bluefish that we wanted. It seemed that every place we went there were loads of them. Towards the weekend we had to work very hard just to find some fish. I'm not sure more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Pretty Ho-Hum Week - Only a couple of charters this week; very strange for mid-late August. We had to cancel Sunday's trip because of foul weather all day. We got lots of nice porgies and a few blues and schoolie bass earlier in the week. Lots of bait and birds in t more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

The blues are getting bigger. - We got out a few days this week and the fishing improved a bit each time. There are lots of baby butterfish around and the stripers are keyed in on them. There are also a lot more bluefish showing up each day. This week we had them to just over 10 lb more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound

Excellent fishing continues! - This past weekend the Race and locations nearby continued to produce hot fishing with large to medium blues and stripers. A combination of live and artificial bait's were the ticket to keep rods bent for anglers. We have one opening left for August- more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

NON-STOP HEAT, BUT THE FISHING'S PRETTY GOOD - Friday was another scorcher, but we fished with David Stueber of Darien and his 11-year-old son, Andrew. We started out looking for some fresh bunker, after which we moved toward mid-Sound, where we anchored up. After a considerable amount of chummin more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Norwalk Islands

Excellent fishing and weather continue..... - to provide charters with good times. This past week we have had to use a variety of artificals due to the continued lack of bait in the area. Diamond jigs and 3 wayed plastic swim baits have produced big #s of bluefish along with keeper and school s more...
Capt. Mark Anderson - Long Island Sound

The butterfish are here and the stripers are eating - This past week saw the annual influx of baby butterfish and they brought the stripers with them. I was out on Monday and there were plenty of bass up to 15 lbs. On Tuesday it was the same scenario except the fish were a bit smaller. The butters are s more...
Capt. Sandy Noyes - Long Island Sound