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  • September 6th - TUNA ARE HOT!

    September 6th - TUNA ARE HOT!

    Stripers and Blues Trends from last week continue this week, with the only change being unseasonably warm weather! We’ve had nights staying in the 60’s and daytime temps reaching close to 90, so the water has been staying at summer...

  • August 30th - Transition Time

    August 30th - Transition Time

    Stripers and Blues We’re beginning to enter the time of year on the Long Island Sound when it feels like everywhere you look you see life. It’s a transitional time right now in that we have big stripers and blues...

  • August 22nd - Striper and Bluefish Action

    August 22nd - Striper and Bluefish Action

    Stripers and Blues There’s a lot of action out there for those chasing stripers and blues. Bigger stripers are hitting live eels, GT Eels, big topwaters like the Mully and Doc, and live bunker if you can find it. Bluefish...

  • August 16th - The Albies are Coming!

    August 16th - The Albies are Coming!

    Stripers and Blues There’s been a lot of good action out on the Sound this past week, highlighted by some pretty consistent and exciting blitzes underneath birds and fueled by what has become some plentiful late summer bait. This bait...

  • August 6th - The Topwater Bite is Picking Up

    August 6th - The Topwater Bite is Picking Up

    Stripers and Blues Striped bass fishing continues to be solid throughout our part of the Sound, with plentiful bass of a variety of sizes hitting many different presentations. The topwater bite is starting to pick up, which is a typical...

  • July 19th - The Great Connecticut Mud Plume

    July 19th - The Great Connecticut Mud Plume

    Stripers and Blues Well, how about that Connecticut River mud plume, eh? Right around the time last week’s fishing report was being published, the river mouth was injecting chocolatey, log-laden madness into the Long Island Sound. We would be remiss...

  • July 12th - Full Summer Mode!

    July 12th - Full Summer Mode!

    Stripers and Blues We are in summer mode, folks! Hot days, foggy mornings, and the occasional torrential downpour associated with a strong but fleeting thunderstorm. Those are our summer patterns for weather, and that means that your striper fishing tactics...

  • June 28th - Every Tide is Bringing in Bigger Stripers

    June 28th - Every Tide is Bringing in Bigger Stripers

    Stripers and Blues The fishing continues to get better, and it seems that practically every tide is bringing in more and bigger stripers. Live bunker remains the ticket, and if we sound like a broken record, get comfortable because it’s...

  • June 23rd - Striped Bass are Finicky Fish

    June 23rd - Striped Bass are Finicky Fish

    Stripers and Blues The early summer fishing continues out there and it’s been very good so far, with plenty of good stripers around who are more than willing to hit if presented with the right opportunity at the right time....

  • June 17th - Full-blown June Run Time

    June 17th - Full-blown June Run Time

    Stripers and Blues It’s full-blown June run time out there folks. Just like they love to do, the stripers went from sporadic and finicky to all over the place and hungry! They’re still a bit picky, which is typical for...