It's Been A Bountiful Week....
Capt. Sal Tardella
July 14, 2008
Norwalk Islands - Saltwater Fishing Report
Friday afternoon we had one of our regulars--Robert Remin of White Plains, hosting his cousin, Chip Lupu of Washington D.C., as well as Adam Conner-Sax of Larchmont, NY and his 6-year-old daughter, Kylie. Kylie turned out to be quite the angler; she especially enjoyed bringing in a nice passel of hefty porgies. We also got some striped bass up to 27" and bluefish up to 10 pounds around Sheffield Island.
Sunday we had aboard Gary Lattrell and his wife, Ellen. Gary is the golf course superintendent at the Quaker Hill Country Club in Pawling NY. We got the couple into some striped bass up to 27" and a few blues around the Norwalk Islands. When things slowed down a bit, we moved towards Compo Beach during a slack tide, and along the shoreline of Sherwood Island we found a few blues. When the tide started moving again we moved toward Sunken Island near Penfield Reef, where we found loads of bluefish feeding on sand eels. There was non-stop action for the rest of our trip.
On Monday Lattrell returned to Norwalk, this time with three members of his groundskeeping crew, Kelly, Robin and Brittany Rosselle, also from Pawling. We started our trip around Cockenoe Island, where we caught some nice schoolie bass and blues on tube & worm. Then we moved further offshore and found several schools of bunker being pushed. We snagged some and tried live-lining, which resulted in a great haul of blues 10-12 pounds. Then we changed pace and tried for porgies; we were successful with a bountiful catch, most of which were released. As we were getting ready to head for home we came across another body of bunker, and Lattrell asked to stay out an additional hour, during which we got many more large blues under the school.
More Fishing Reports:
