Montauk Surf Fishing Report (Blitz!)

I heard there was a 4 HOUR blitz off Turtle Cove yesterday. That's a nice long time to be in the fish. Congrats to anyone who was there. Save a few for me!

Oh, I found a new search engine called Accoona that let's you search business data. So, I did a search for businesses in Montauk under the search term 'montauk fishing'. Here are the results of that search.

Anyway, I'll be in full swing next weekend hitting all the usually places. I just hope the fish do then what they did today :)

Capt. Kevin Shea
www.fishingmontauk.com

Montauk Fishing Report (late September 2006)

(From Capt. Gene Kelly of MontaukSportfishing)
There was a rumor going around during the week that the DEC was going to have a boat on the water on the weekend measuring porgies. East Hampton’s boat was out there alright, but no boardings took place as far as I know, maybe because it was a little too sloppy.

The bass fishing is just alright right now, mainly because of the numbers of bluefish. They’re pretty unavoidable.

The MBCA’s annual bass tournament gets under way next week. All you have to do the participate is fish on a boat that is in the tournament. No $$$. Biggest fish at the end of the season wins. There is also a weekly pool that you have to pay to enter. You can enter at any marina.

The falsies have been around for a couple of weeks now, but not in great numbers. That changes on Sunday when they were all over the place. They seem to like a southwest wind, which we had plenty of.

Bottom fishing for porgies and seabass is excellent over by Block Island, but there are lots of shorts.

Offshore, in the early part of the week the yellowfins and longfins wrere cooperating nicely with just about every boat catching a minimum of a half dozen, all around the 400 line. Thursday we had a northerly blow and Friday the weather was great, but things had changed some. Some boats did well, and others couldn’t get a sniff. Then Saturday and Sunday were pretty crappy, so I don’t think anyone was out there. Weather is becoming more of a problem.

The giants are still around, with a fish or two being taken every day or so.

In the Locals Surfcasting contest we’ve got a couple of fish on the board; Wader Division - Gary Apria - 26.66 lbs
Wet Suit Division - John Bruno - 35.40 lbs
Kids Division - Dillon Lackner - 4.34 lbs. Bluefish
Danielle Lackner - 4.08 lbs Bluefish.

The owner of the boat that I run has left for the season, and I’m in the process of putting it away. Then I’m also starting to get busy with the southern trips, so I won’t be quite as steady with the reports for the rest of the season.