Connecticut Saltwater Fishing Reports

Fished with one of my best fishermen, Tyler, yesterday. Tyler is a CT local and we fish together several times every year. The weather was absolutely terrible. Wind blowing 25-30 knots and raining. We weren’t able to leave the immediate shoreline near the marina so we opted to fish the shore rocks and see if… Continue reading Bad Weather but lots of Stripers

Fished a realty nice group of guys from multiple points around the country. 11 year old Adam, the grandson, is from San Francisco, Sam the uncle is from Down East Maine and Stewart the host and grandfather is from Santa Fe, NM. We fished a 3/4 day and to be sure the fishing was not… Continue reading Bucket Full of Fish

Fished with three great guys yesterday. These three call CT home during the week and Nevada to NJ home on weekends. All are in town for a long term multi year construction project. All three experienced fishermen. We only had a short 4 hour window and the first hour was actually pretty slow. That all… Continue reading “Lots” of Bluefish & a Striper

Fished a full day with regular customer Kevin and his 2 pals from the Poconos. All 3 of these guys were experienced fishermen. Weather was great and fish were everywhere. Ebb tide or flood didn’t seem to matter as long as it was moving. We fished both fly rod and spinning on this day. Several… Continue reading BIG BLUEFISH

Fished a half day with a regular, Kyle, Sunday afternoon. We ran in to a school of giant Bluefish. Caught 4 of them with this one the biggest at 18lbs. Fishing the ebb tide hasn’t been nearly as good as the flood tide but these fish changes the game. Every one was bigger than the… Continue reading Gator Bluefish

Fished with Scott, Dave and their sons/grandsons today. We found fish on birds at Plum Gut but had to maneuver through 50 boats there to catch them. Decided to find some fish on our own and luckily we were able to do just that. Found a pile of Stripers to 27” and medium size Bluefish… Continue reading 3 Generations of Fishermen

Fished a really nice local couple, Kelly & Mike, yesterday. Both experienced freshwater fishermen but neither had a ton of saltwater experience. We only had a half day and we fished under birds the entire 4 hours. We went to our first reef at the beginning of the flood tide and found birds on fish… Continue reading Lots of Birds but More Fish

Fished 3/4 day with a long time customer Tyler and his pals Steve and Evan from Westbrook, CT. Tyler is a very experienced fisherman and Evan and Steve are accomplished anglers as well. The guys wanted to catch a variety of fish so off we went. Slack tide we blasted some big Black Sea Bass… Continue reading It’s on Like Donkey Kong!!!!!

Fished three really nice young guys from Providence, RI today. They are all cooks and wanted fish to eat so off we went. Trip was just a half day but we ended up with a cooler full of Scuo, Black Seabass and Bluefish. Had to give the guys a bucket to get the fish home… Continue reading Cooler was Full…Need a Bucket!!!

Fished with one of my best fly rod guys today….Todd. He can really handle a 9wt….one of the top 2 or three casters I fish. Todd’s a purist and only want to use the fly rod. At slack tide we fished the rocks behind Fishers Island and found several Stripers willing to eat the fly… Continue reading Fly Rod or Bust