6/13/2011

Hot all week and then somebody turned off the global warming button for Saturday, and
clicked on the breeze button making it a little sloppy. Then Sunday started with a
monsoon.

It doesn’t affect the bass though, They were cooperating nicely, especially on the dj’s.
The Elbow and Slot were the main location with bass rolling around on the top giving
anyone with a spinning rod a chance to cast to them. It’s not like a fall blitz with the fish
all charging a single school of bait, but instead individual fish here and there. All you
have to do is look for the terns flying around and you’ll mark the fish on the recorder. A
lot of the fish are in the 15-20 pound range, but there are measurers and forty pound fish
as well.

Fluke fishing seems to have picked up by the end of the week, but it’s not because there
are a lot of fish around. But there are some decent fish in one area, namely the Alaska
Rip, and anybody that wanted to target fluke headed there. The south side is pretty dead.
There are occasional real nice seabass hanging around the fluke grounds as well.

Next weekend is Star Island’s shark tournament. The Concerned Citizens of Montauk
have donated a bunch of circle hooks for the tournaments, but based on how the shark
fishing is, they probably didn’t buy enough. Twenty bluesharks per trip is normal right
now, and the biggest problem those fishing in the tournament are likely to have is getting
the bait past the bluedogs. Fifteen miles out isn’t too far to go, but it’s not necessary to go
that far.

I heard second hand about a boat that went out to the Tails this week and caught a pile of
yellowfins, bringing back four of them, all dwarfs. The next day they tried again and
couldn’t find the fish.

For more info about fishing in Montauk, check out www.montauksportfishing.com and if
you would like to receive these reports directly, drop me a line at
captaingene@montauksportfishing.com