11/1/10

It looks like things are winding down here in Montauk, at least for the charter boats. It’s
early yet, so I think the slowdown isn’t due to the fishing, but rather the economy. It
always hits worse on the shoulders of the season than in the middle of it.

The bass fishing has been great, with occasional hiccups. A while back I still had ninety
bass tags to use and did sixty of them on one tide. The bass were all over the top with not
enough birds to go around (or a lot of them were too full to fly). There were some
bluefish, but could be avoided. The next day we went out on the same tide, and all the
fish on top were bluefish and we had to get away from them to finish the last of the tags,
and wound up with twice as many blues as bass. I didn’t go out the next day, but I heard
there was nothing on top that day. Overall though the bass fishing is great and will
probably stay that way at least until the end of the month.

Virtually al of the boats fishing for blackfish have been doing it over by Fishers Island
and it has been pretty steady with some porgies mixed in (their out of season). Seabass
season reopens on November 1, so maybe now some of those seeking blackfish will start
checking out Southwest Ledge where they will also be able to switch to Seabass when the
tog limits are full.

The standings in the Surfmasters Tournament are as follows;
Wader Division
Gary Arprea - 38.26 lbs - 10/19
Mike Milano - 32.36 lbs - 10/1
Frank Krist - 24.20 lbs - 10/11
Wetsuit Division
Mike Copolla - 44.54 lbs - 10/17
Woman’s Division
Christine Schnell - 9.8 lbs - 10/19
Youth Division
Kevin Losie - 22.44 lbs - 10/28
Philip Schnell - 11.08 lbs - 10/4
Xen Angelides - 9.8 lbs - 9/28
Kids Division - Brendan Farrell - 18.16 lbs - 10/11

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