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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, September 08, 2003 - 3:35 am: | |
September 8, 2003
Labor Day is past, and although fall doesn’t start officially for another two weeks, it’s starting to
feel like it here. We should be seeing birds working over bait pushed up by marauding bluefish,
bass and falsies, but we’re not, unless you go back to Cherry Harbor where there are lots of
cocktail blues. Falsies first showed up over a week ago, but since then they’ve been among the
missing.
It’s starting to look like you can get all your spinners, silver bullets and other fluke bling-bling
and put them away. You can still scratch out a few fish, maybe even an occasional doormat, but
you’ll have to put up with lots of waiting time in between. Seabass season is closed until next
week, so until then if you want to do some productive bottom fishing you’ll have to go after the
scup, which are pretty plentiful.
Striped bass fishing is still pretty steady, but again mainly for medium sized fish. Not many big
ones around right now.
Offshore the shark fishing is very good, with good numbers of bluedogs, very frisky
ones, as well as some makos. This time of the year the bluesharks are not measured in feet or
pounds, but rather in the number of anglers it takes to get them to the boat.
There are still some bluefins over by the Tuna Bank to the southeast of Block Island, and they
are being caught by diamond jigs, trolling and on chunks, but not very many of them, and if you
want good results, you’d better get up pretty early. If you are fishing and you can see the sun,
you’re probably too late.
If you would like to have these reports sent to you directly, just drop me a note at
CaptGene@MontaukSportfishing.com. And for more information about fishing in Montauk, you
can give me a call at 800 280 5565 or check out http://www.montauksportfishing.com.
Capt Gene Kelly
Montauk Sportfishing
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