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Orient features porgies, sea bass and bluefish
Tom Schlichter
September 14, 2007
'Fishing has been strong at Orient," said Ken Holmes of the charter boat
Brooklyn Girl. "We're seeing loads of nice porgies and sea bass, plus
savage action with bluefish to 10 pounds on diamond jigs. After dark,
stripers are taking live eels and bucktails at Plum Gut and The Race."
According to Phil Loria at Capt. Marty's Fishing Station in New Suffolk,
Peconic Bay porgy action is red hot in 15 feet of water: "Scup to 2.75
pounds are east of Robins Island around Buoys 18 and 22. Try off Roses
Grove with clam or squid and you'll also find weakfish. Catches are solid
on both tides."
At Montauk, Jamie Quaresimo of the open boat Marlin VI said wind against
tide conditions have made for "picky fluking" but pool winners still top 8
pounds daily. The biggest fluke are at The Guns, where Frank Braddick's
charter boat, Hurry Up, drilled a 15-pound doormat with the Sullivan
charter on Tuesday. Mark Marose of the Capt. Mark added that some stripers
to 40 pounds have been picked by boats trolling green parachutes through
the bluefish gauntlet at The Elbow and Pollack Rip. Sea bass and scup are
improving at Southwest Ledge and south of the Hooter Buoy.
Off Shinnecock, keeper fluke are in 90 feet of water southeast of the sea
buoy and off the Cheese House. Live bait accounted for a pick of keeper
stripers at the inlet, and snappers are big and hungry at Shinnecock
Canal.
"School bass have really turned on in Moriches Bay," said Steve
Scarfogliero of Fish On Charters in Moriches. Clams with clam chum have
produced well on the flood. A few keeper fluke are still inside the bay
but windy weather has made it difficult to get outside Moriches Inlet and
probe for deep water for doormats.
Anglers working Fire Island Inlet have scored well with stripers to 35
pounds, according to Walter Czekaj of the Captree open boat Fishfinder.
Live eels are the ticket with the bass feeding on both tides after dark.
Fluke fishing remains decent with 4- to 6-pound keepers in 75 feet of
water. Great South Bay is loaded with snappers, and schoolie weaks occupy
the main channel sporadically from Patchogue to Bay Shore.
West End bluefishing continues strong with choppers to 13 pounds hauled
over the rails of the Howard Beach open boat Angler II and much of the
action inside Jamaica Bay. Mixed bag bottom catches have been only fair
but ocean fluke are finishing up well for Freeport's Captain Lou fleet
with doormats to 8 pounds in 60 feet of water southeast of Jones Inlet.
Robert Feuring at Sea Isle Tackle in Freeport added that stripers are at
the Meadowbrook bridges taking bunker chunks. About 50 percent are
keepers. Last call for fluke - they are out of season come Monday.
Long Island Sound is still dominated by small and medium-sized bluefish
from Riverhead west to Hempstead Harbor. The biggest choppers, said John
Marino of American Sportfishing Charters in Port Washington, are at
mid-Sound hitting bunker chunks and diamond jigs. A few stripers are
falling for chunks around large, submerged boulders in 50- to 60-foot
depths bordering the Middle Grounds and off Eaton's Neck. Porgies remain
unsettled, snappers are at the harbor mouths but false albacore are
missing in action.
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