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Report for Long Island Sound
Capt. Sal Tardella
May 25, 2004
Norwalk Islands - Saltwater Fishing Report
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 heard reports that they were under the bunker; but there were none there, then we went to Todd’s Point and also found no fish. Next it was Billy’s Reef and Sunken Island—still with no stripers in sight. The anglers had only two hits for all their trouble and all their travels, but they still enjoyed being on the water instead of in the office.
Two days later, however, we scored big with more than 40 stripers up to 26”. Later in the week we had two new clients and faced another cold and clammy and foggy day, but the boys landed 18 bass up to 24” while moving throughout the Norwalk Islands, using bucktail and Sparkling Beetle lures. (Sparkling Beetles are a favorite when we're fishing in Sebastian, Florida.)
Paul Stokes of Greenwich and two of his friends (all Brits) had their first-time-ever experience with striped bass—with more than 20 schoolies and a keeper bass lost at the boat. It looked to be 15-18 pounds and the 10-pound test tackle was nearly spooled and just couldn’t keep up with the lunker striper. All the fish were caught on worms and bucktail combos.
Mark Greenberg and his son, Matt, of Greenwich, and Mark’s friend, Phil, sailed in the afternoon Monday, despite the threat of lightning storms (the weather pattern for the past couple of weeks—keeping “My Bonnie” close to home for safety’s sake), but they did well—especially 9-year-old Matt—who had a ball reeling in bass, while Mark brought in a 19-inch fluke. At Cockenoe we found a nice pocket of stripers, but we had to leave most of the fish there when the electrical storm was approaching very rapidly in the early evening.
We're very enthusiastic about the coming weeks, which promise better weather and the opportunity to fish on the Long Island side, where the blues should be settling in very shortly.
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