10/31/11

The frost was on the pumpkins this morning, or at least on my windshield. Years ago I used to hear that the
Baymen claimed that the striped bass were gone after the first snowfall. Well, it missed us so there should still
be some around. But, unless the storm brought in a new batch of fish over the weekend, there aren’t an awful
lot. During the week the bass fishing was difficult to say the least with charterboats on half day trips only
bringing back a couple of fish. Nobody sailed over the weekend, but there was a shot of hot action earlier in the
week with short fish under the Lighthouse, but for keepers boats had to get out to the deeper rips. The water has
cooled down quite a bit, into the fifties, but that’s good enough for bass, so there should still be some decent
fishing coming along.
The seabass season opens up again on Tuesday so that should give a little more incentive for some bottom
fishing along with the blackfish. All day charters are usually spent catching a limit of stripers before heading
over toward Block Island to finish up the day.
The owner of the boat that I run all summer has gone south so I won’t be doing much fishing for the rest of
the season (except for tagging bass). But he is putting the boat up for sale. It’s a 33’ L&H center console with
twin 3116 Cats. If you are interested, you can check it out at www.montauksportfishing.com/piper.html
I’ll be spending more time promoting the winter fishing in Central America. If that interests you, check it
out at www.tropicalfishing.com.
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