FISHING REPORT --- October 8, 2010
STRIPED BASS ---- Weather, wind and waves were the excuses this week. Some fishermen benefited from the weather. If you were standing on shore midweek in the Watch Hill area those easterly winds gathered the bait on the shoreline and gave surfcasters good numbers of bass and blues. There's mullet, bay anchovies and snappers along the RI shore and when those onshore winds kick up the first day or two can put the bass and friends at your feet. Boat fishing was a different story, few small craft ventured out for long. There were bass at the Race for some of the party and charter boats and some of the boats that fished live bait close to the Old Lyme shore. There were adult bunker in the Connecticut River as of this morning.
School bass were still available from shore on the beaches from Old Saybrook to Waterford. Montauk has picked up the last few days with some better sized bass on the windward side of the Point.

BLUEFISH ---- Chunkers are still doing a consistent business with blues in the mouth of the Connecticut River. Again not too many reports from the boats that remain tied up due to weather. When the weather breaks tomorrow I'm sure we'll get more reports of big blues harassing the bass fishermen.

SNAPPER BLUES ---- No reports but I've had bass and blues spitting them up along the beaches this week.

BLACKFISH ---- The Fall season is a week old and the catching has been fair. When they could, the boats fishing the popular reefs such as Southwest and Hatchetts had fair results at best. Boats fishing shallow water did a lot better, even shore casters did well. Breakwaters, jettys and shallow rockpiles were the better producers this week.

PORGIES ---- Season closed except for party and charter boats and that closes on the 12th.

FALSE ALBACORE ---- Before the blow they were in the Race, Pine Island, Fishers and Montauk. They'll probably regroup at the Race and Montauk but thats pure speculation on my part.

BLUE CRABS ---- We had a few reports of crabs this week which is beyond their check out time

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Pat Abate
Rivers End Tackle
440 Boston Post Road
Old Saybrook, CT 06475
(860) 388-2283
info@riversendtackle.com