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Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

After getting my bike back Friday morning, I decided to hit the 2:45pm low at the Remington Sandbar after not being there for 2 weeks or so. Setup was a 7' MH Daiwa Procyon/Penn Fierce 2000 Power Pro 10lb braid. Low tide was predicted to be one of those pretty high ones due to the moon phase.

Got down there around 12:45pm and fished for about 2 hours. Conditions were mostly sunny skies, dry air, air temps in the lower 80s, and steady 5 to 10mph sw winds with many gusts from 15 to 20. Bridgeport Harbor buoy read surface temps ranging from 78 to 82 while I was out there.

Lures I threw included glass ghost Clackin Minnow CNM-11, smelt BX Minnow BXM-10, original pearl shad Flat Rap FLR-10, silver shad Jointed Shallow Shad Rap JSSR-, blue sardine Saltwater X-Rap SXR-10, Storm Jointed Minnow Stick, flake blue Max Rap MXR-13, and shad Shallow Shad Rap SSR-9. Other than steady retrieve with the SXR-10 and CNM-11, also tried jerk and pause slashbait retrieves.

Never got a single hit, follower, or swirl on the surface. Only signs of life I saw were snappers jumping and skipping, 1 cormorant feasting on the snappers, and a few gulls circling the harbor entrance for a while. I was the only one out there most of the time before 2 people came just for the snappers not long before I left.

Low tide was very high making access difficult.

Amotha · Joined: 09 Nov 2012 Posts: 45

august...daytime...long island sound....from shore

fishfinder · Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 1672 Location: Naugatuck, Ct.

I went to 2 different spots on 3 occasions this weekend and got skunked. 2 of them were at 2- 6 in the morning throwing live eels and never got a hit! The other time was today in the afternoon throwing both top water and swimmers and again no hits. WTF, last weekend I did pretty good, Mostly blues at night and big ones with a few stripers during the week, nothing crazy but not bad for summer nights from shore. 1 of those blues I belly hooked in a channel and it was a huge blue and it freakin bent my 2-6 ounce rod over reallllllly good and tore line out like it was a trout pole with a Salmon on it!
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avidangler · Joined: 08 Jan 2013 Posts: 469 Location: Forestville

Heard from my uncle that keeps his boat just up river from Bonds dock.He mentioned that as of 3 days ago there WERE blues up under the power lines and schoolies at the Derby dam but,not much more than that unless you go to Middle ground,the bird sanctuary or the back side of Charles Island.Even then,the few stripers being caught have been at night on eels.
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Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

One spot I've been desperate to hit is the Charles Island Sandbar. I've been hearing better reports coming from areas around Milford and New Haven with not much happening in FFLD County other than sea robins.

Jeff · Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 167

The past couple of nights have been SLOWWW in the milford area. Aint nuttin for blues or stripers.