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Redneckangler
Joined: 05 May 2012
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Location: Meriden, CT
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 Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:52 pm Post subject: Eastern LIS |
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October typically brings some of the best fishing of the year to the eastern Long Island Sound. Bass and blues are putting on the feed bags, often in insane surface blitzes, before their migrations south. Black fish season reopens, and anglers look to fill freezers for the winter with these and dinner plate size scup. Bay anchovies and other bait fish choke the reefs, with albies giving chase. Fall is arriving, and with it shifting weather conditions including increased winds and waves, making it tougher on recreational anglers hoping Mother Nature coordinates with days off. For the past several years, a day out typically guaranteed great fishing. While the weather has generally cooperated thus far, fishing has been a bit more hit and miss this season. I know guys will say that they caught a ton of blues, or stripers, and maybe some albies, but the mass of fish in many of the usual places isn't what it has been in seasons past. I've had discussions all summer about causes, but guys who fish on a regular basis will tell you that it has been tougher. Places like the Gut, Pidgeon and the Race are all safe bets to fill coolers with blues, and porgies are hitting well on the rock piles. Fisher's is seeing some top water striper action near Race Point and locations along the south side, but they are not the acre+ of churning bass and blues that I look forward to in October. The reefs in the Watch Hill area have been hit or miss as well. Sure, you can always grind out fish, but the action and numbers are just down. This weekend I ran from Groton (CT) to Point Judith, RI. Saturday's weather was as ideal as one could ask for, and my first stop was Watch Hill. The tide was beginning to push in, and the fishing just wasn't happening. I quickly decided to run east up the coast, working all the way over to PJ in my little skiff, the Gemma Rose II. Bay anchovies are working in, as football field sized schools circled west of the break walls, with the occasional schools of albies or bonito slashing through. Despite the masses of bait, the numbers of top water blitzes were few and small. Hanging around the breachways is going to score fish, but I'm looking for the massive catch 'til your arms fall off October runs. Seeing all the bait was encouraging, and I along with all of the other salt water anglers that fish the ELIS are hoping the action builds up as well. We need our fix of massive striper blitzes to see us through to the spring!
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Aroz
Joined: 12 Jul 2012
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Location: Wethersfield
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| On Saturday my fishing buddy and I saw the biggest blitz ive seen in a long time. The water was boiling ALL over the place. Bunker were running for their lives! Big blues (34"+) were chasing them. We ended up getting some bunker and livelining them in the hopes we could possibly run into a nice striper, but blues were just ripping the bait into pieces. Even bunker bitten in half did not get picked up off the bottom like it normally would if stripers were around. |
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Redneckangler
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Location: Meriden, CT
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| Aroz wrote: | | On Saturday my fishing buddy and I saw the biggest blitz ive seen in a long time. The water was boiling ALL over the place. Bunker were running for their lives! Big blues (34"+) were chasing them. We ended up getting some bunker and livelining them in the hopes we could possibly run into a nice striper, but blues were just ripping the bait into pieces. Even bunker bitten in half did not get picked up off the bottom like it normally would if stripers were around. |
Nice. What area were you fishing? Hard to believe stripers weren't lurking underneath!
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Pauleye
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject: Redneck is Right |
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Redneck is right. Generally speaking, overall quantity is down this year. Had to work extra hard for fishing crumbs once mid-July rolled in. The fall has been non-existent. Someone will always catch something happening somewhere but I feel the odds are against me this year.
Nice report as usual, Redneck. |
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Just4fun
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Location: Saybrook
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| Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Redneck is Right |
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| Pauleye wrote: | Redneck is right. Generally speaking, overall quantity is down this year. Had to work extra hard for fishing crumbs once mid-July rolled in. The fall has been non-existent. Someone will always catch something happening somewhere but I feel the odds are against me this year.
Nice report as usual, Redneck. |
I agree as well,...by my eyes, the numbers were noticeably down last year,...and then this year it was worse than last year!! Not a good trend!! There was however more bunker around this year,..so maybe that'll help things some....
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Michael
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| Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: Redneck is Right |
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| Just4fun wrote: | | Pauleye wrote: | Redneck is right. Generally speaking, overall quantity is down this year. Had to work extra hard for fishing crumbs once mid-July rolled in. The fall has been non-existent. Someone will always catch something happening somewhere but I feel the odds are against me this year.
Nice report as usual, Redneck. |
I agree as well,...by my eyes, the numbers were noticeably down last year,...and then this year it was worse than last year!! Not a good trend!! There was however more bunker around this year,..so maybe that'll help things some.... |
I second all 3 of you.
Things weren't bad in the spring. But the summer was DEAD in most of Western Sound. I haven't gotten into any productive bite yet this fall.
2011 was slow. Then came 2012 which was the slowest I had ever seen it until came this year when I never saw a single bluefish chasing peanut bunker on the surface in Black Rock Harbor.
Last year during July and August I would have some days at Seaside Park where I'd catch a few tailors and some fluke with a few shoreline keepers. This year at the same spot I never caught a single tailor and landed very few fluke with all no bigger than 13 or 14 inches.
Last year tailors were thick chasing peanut bunker in the discharge at the Remington plant after sunset in July and August. Same surf casters as last year and I didn't catch a single tailor there this year.
Member gkolyagin and I were into tailors like crazy with topwaters at Penfield Reef last year in the evening hours of July and August. This year it was just sea robins with an occasional fluke. We didn't bother going anymore once it was mid July. |
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