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RobO · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 285 Location: South Windsor

Myself and two friends decided to head out on the Helcat's first voyage of the season on Saturday. We were hoping to hook up with stripers before the big rush of blue fish came in.

Well I was not sure of what to expect, since I have read reports here saying that the Race was void of fish. However I had also heard that things were picking up this past week.

Well we got to the boat at 8am and the Helcat was half full already. So we pick our spot and the boat continues to fill up. A group of 25+ Boy Scouts from NJ were on the boat also. Many of them had never even fished before.. Of course they sit right next to me.

I overhear the captain telling one of the parents of a scout that he plans to head over to Greenport NY where the blues are biting.. UGH.... I wanted to avoid the blues.. Oh well..

Well we head out with a full boat and head to the Race. The captain takes 3 drifts and after no one catches a fish he decided to continue to head towards Greenport.

It took us a little over an hour to get there. There were a couple of boats fishing the are including the Brooklyn Girl 2. and a nice boat with 3 beautiful woman in tank tops until their boyfriends saw a bunch of guys(half the Helcat) gawking at them during the drifts. Then their sweatshirts and jackets went on. smirk

Most of the patrons on the Helcat were fishing with baited rigs. My buddies and I fished with diamond jigs. I was able to get two decent sized blues and one smaller one. I used an Atom jig with a white surgical tube. One of my buddies used a diamond jig with no trailer and he caught two big blues and a small sea bass.

We fished for about 1 and 1/2 hours before it was time to head in. More time was spent getting to the location and back, then there was fishing. Well my buddy won the pool with a big blue. I only saw about 12 blues and about 6 fluke in all caught from the entire boat. I do not think any of the Boy Scouts caught anything. Too bad because they were a good group of kids and were well behaved on the boat. I think the only people catching were using diamond jigs or small buck tails.

Overall a fun day with my pals and it got me craving for more fish and continuing to strive to catch a keeper striper.

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fivestring · Joined: 21 Aug 2012 Posts: 91

I used to go on that boat several times a year. Had some fun on there with big bluefish; never had much luck with bass on there. The nighttime "Alligator Ledge" trips for ocean bluefish were always my favorite. Went home with very sore arms many times from that boat! Laughing

RobO · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 285 Location: South Windsor

Yeah this was the lowest amount of fish I ever caught on the Helcat.

Still a great time.

I am thinking of trying the Middlebank for some fluke fishing next.
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fivestring · Joined: 21 Aug 2012 Posts: 91

I've had some duds out there, too.

TurtleKiss · Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 1200 Location: central CT

Nice report, RobO! Very Happy

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JimiChanga · Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 195 Location: Meriden

I was gonna go out with them with the same mindset for stripers too.

Now I'm glad I headed out west on the MIddlebank for fluke instead. But I will be going out on the Hel-Cat for sure this year again.

Hey maybe get a bunch of us to go out?

Kinda like a "CTFISHTALK Day"?

John.

RobO · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 285 Location: South Windsor

Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm in.
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anointed130 · Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 9:43 am Post subject:

Let me know, I may be interested into going out on middlebank, i go a couple times a year normally.
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RobO · Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 285 Location: South Windsor

I would definitely try the Middlebank also. Do you go out for Fluke?

I like the idea of getting a bunch of people from the site and plan a day to head out on one of the party boats.
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anointed130 · Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:09 pm Post subject:

I go out on middle and for about everything,I have been out for fluke, black fish, porgies, whatever they go out for. They are a really nice group of folks.

They try pretty hard to get you on fish.
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JimiChanga · Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 195 Location: Meriden

This is my 3rd year going out on the Middlebank and absolutely love the boat, crew, etc...they'll be going for fluke till midsummer then for porgies., then fall tautog till the end of the season in November.

Also on Friday,Saturday & Sunday they do a 4:30PM-8:30PM blues/stripers trip which I never been on but would like to.

www.middlebank.com

John.

junkie · Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 36

Sounds like a good idea, been going to the middlebank for many years I guess I'm a regular best thing its only 5 minutes from my house. Keep us posted

junkie · Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 36

Sounds like a good idea, been going to the middlebank for many years I guess I'm a regular best thing its only 5 minutes from my house. Keep us posted