Fishing Report: There Are Still Bass To Be Had

This weekend ended up a bust for Patch’s fishing trip. Went out of Mount Sinai just off Cedar Beach with high hopes on Saturday afternoon that there were fluke to be had.

Tried all sorts of set ups but consistently caught sea robin. Had a few kids out there too and a friend’s son brought up his line with a little crab clinging to the end of it by one claw. So that was when we knew what was stealing all the bait.

It was choppy on the water that day with lots of boat traffic and no fish. Packed it in after that and headed over to Pirate’s Cove for some swimming.

So what does it take to catch some fish these days? Good question.

wrote in her report that there were “plenty of porgies around” but to catch them she says you need to chum.

“It sets the table for them and keeps them around your boat,” she wrote.

One fisherman wanted to get some advice for catching his first stripped bass in the forums on Noreast.com.

“Bunker chunks as the sun goes down, they'll come,” said Britfish.

Bigkeepers said, “as the waters begin to warm and the blues become more aggressive, the stripers will tend to feed more at night and in deeper water.”

“You need to start hunting for them,” he said.

Caraftis also reported on some weekend action.

“We saw some keeper bass from middle grounds on bunker chunks,” she reported. “So they are at buoy 11 and middle grounds.”

She weighed in two fluke caught by a new person to the area.

“She is out fishing the guys with keepers,” Caraftis said. “So when you see the pictures you'll know that keepers are out there.”

Caraftis also said that John DeFranza “killed the bass by buoy 11 on clams.” More evidence that the bass are out there to be caught.

“John had two keeper's legally one at 38 inches and one at 41 inches,” she said. “The 38 inch one weighed in at 16 1/2 pounds.”

On Sunday, pdspeh69 went out looking for the big blues or bass in the Port Jefferson area.

“Nada,” he wrote in his report.

He made a “slight move” to switch to fluking and ended up with two robins.

“Moved just east. Bam! Fluke,” he wrote.

He caught about ten short fluke on a long slow drift to the east.

“It turned out to be crazy four hour bite,” he said. “Non-stop. Not big. But aggressive.”

He moved on to find bigger fish but found there were still shorts.

“Moved back to the original ‘honey drift’ and it was just a great bite,” he said.

There’s a life lesson in there somewhere.