We will publish a class schedule in a couple of weeks. In September, the Stamford CARE classes organized by Dick will return. At the dam, fish the small beach below along beach left of dam to Mill House and beyond.ĭick ends his suggestions with a Good Luck, Be Safe and Have Fun! Also fish the rip rap and the basin below dam. Pound Rocks is good but watch your footing. Follow rip-rap out along marina to small beach at outlet to Sound.Īfter Labor Day fish around Horseshoe Bay. Inside the park try the gravel section with wooden barricades inside second bridge. If you can get permission try fishing from the boat docks next to the boat launch. Outside of the park you can try the channel off the parking lot at the old bridge stanchions Marina launch and the cove leading to Sound. Some good spots include Cummings Harbor opposite the West Beach launch the end of the parking lot facing Halloween Yacht Club end of Cummings Marina (both sides) and along the sidewalk opposite the Cummings Marina and Halloween Yacht Club.Īnother great place is Cove Island Park.

Change speed between casts not in middle of one. Try Kastmaster, Krocodile or Phoebe lures. When they do, give the rod a side-sweep to set hook. Cast them out and retrieve steadily with no pauses. What kind of tackle should I use? Use a light action, fast tip, 6 or 7-foot rod and a spinning reel loaded with 4 to 6-pound soft monofilament line They won't be far away!Ĭan I use natural baits? You bet! Try minnows (spearing, mummy chugs and silver-sides). Striper fishing in the region, which picked up a few weeks ago, has slowed dowry again.They come to the top? Switch to a surface rig. The blues are being taken with cut menhaden or by trolling, but if one is lucky enough to spot a school feeding on the surface, there is nothing better than a popping plug. Port of Egypt's substation at Orient point opens this weekend, and the angling for porgies and blackfish there should be good.ĪREA E - The Westport Tackle Shop reports very good angling for bluefish as large as 15 pounds inshore (including the mouth of the Housatonic) and offshore from Milford to Stamford. Stripers are scarce and porgies plentiful.ĪREA D-Port of Egypt at Southold says that porgies are plentiful in Peconic and Southold bays. Small to large bluefish are being taken consistently by boats off Montauk Point, according to Frank Tuma. Andy's at Mastic Beach says that blowfish have arrived in great numbers, that snappers are plentiful, also, and that in some areas the bottom is literally paved with biue claw crabs.

Nick's Marina says bluefishing is excellent in and near Shinnecock Inlet, that a few good fluke are still about and that bluefin tuna from 15 to 25 pounds are offshore.ĪREA C-Capt. Snappers are plentiful and there are small fluke in and about the inlet. Offshore boats are doing well with small to medium ‐ sized blues, Captree State Park reports, adding that striper fishing is very slow. Rigged eels are among the best striper producers. AREA B-“We're starting to get some good action with stripers from the beach early evenings, after dark and in the morning,” says Art Giglio at Sea Bright, N.J., adding that medium ‐ sized blues have also been hitting bucktails after dark.

Snapper bluefish