STRIPED BASS --- Certainly the bass are keeping the Fall Run a secret. There's been an improvement although small in the bass activity this past week. Most of the action is still happening on the reefs at night. Long Sand Shoal has been good to eelers and we did weigh in a trolled fish from Old Saybrook upwards of 40 pounds this week. Six Mile also has some bass for baiters. We also weighed in a 35 pound bass caught at Saybrook Point on bait.
The Race has a daytime bite but not much after dark.
The RI beaches and Watch Hill have some schoolies for the dusk and dawn crowd.

BLUEFISH --- Reports have stayed pretty consistent over the past with concentrations in the usual haunts. Plum Gut and the Race have had some better than average sized blues. Long Sand Shoal has had some fish up to the mid teens for size.

SNAPPER BLUES --- No reports though I suspect there are still some around.

PORGIES ---- Excellent reports coming in from Bartletts, Hatchetts and most reefs. This Sunday, September 26 is the last day you can fish for them unless you're on a party or charter boat,.

BLACKFISH --- Season opens next Friday, October 1st. We will have crabs starting Thursday.

BLUE CRABS ---- Again not much news coming in but I suspect that some are around

FALSE ALBACORE --- Its been a roller coaster ride all week. Montauk was good last week then down two days and up the next. Yesterday had a pick in front of the Light with as many boats as fish. The south side of Fishers has had consistent fish popping up but not staying in one spot for very long. They've been up at Race Rock with the typical one or two casts a drift. Not a lot of news is coming from Watch Hill or the Sluiceway.















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