Montauk Fishing Report - August 21, 2007
From Capt. Gene of Montauk Sportfishing. Thanks to him for the weekly updates! This report includes inshore and offshore fishing reports...
We had a little taste of fall on Saturday with a fairly strong little north wind. Only a few boats got out in the morning, but most were able to get the afternoon in. I always expect the first sign of fall the last week of August or so, but it’s here early this year.
Long range boats heading out towards the edge are coming back with mixed reports. Sunday afternoon I spoke to two captains just back. One had a mix of albacore and yellowfins, ten in all, and the other one mahi. If you go over them you catch, often in multiples. If you don’t, you don’t. The blow on Saturday mixed the water up considerably lowering the water temps down as low as 68 degrees or so. Otherwise everything else is the same, with all the action below the 450 line.
Shark action remains fairly steady with a good amount of small makos being caught daily along with some bluesharks. Most of the boats are fishing east of the Butterfish Hole and inside of the 750 line, and they are seeing a fair amount of draggers out there as well. A couple of giants have been brought into Montauk this week, all from southeast of Block Island.
Inshore things remain a little picky with both the stripers and fluke. Trolling seems to be producing the best bass, although there are some boats catching on the live scup or by bunker dunking. But there just don’t seem to be a lot of bass around, and boats have to work pretty hard to put a trip together. Fluke fishing is producing a lot of fluke and some very nice ones, but it seems that the fluke population has been pretty much picked over. There doesn’t seem to be an awful lot of edible ones left.
We had a little taste of fall on Saturday with a fairly strong little north wind. Only a few boats got out in the morning, but most were able to get the afternoon in. I always expect the first sign of fall the last week of August or so, but it’s here early this year.
Long range boats heading out towards the edge are coming back with mixed reports. Sunday afternoon I spoke to two captains just back. One had a mix of albacore and yellowfins, ten in all, and the other one mahi. If you go over them you catch, often in multiples. If you don’t, you don’t. The blow on Saturday mixed the water up considerably lowering the water temps down as low as 68 degrees or so. Otherwise everything else is the same, with all the action below the 450 line.
Shark action remains fairly steady with a good amount of small makos being caught daily along with some bluesharks. Most of the boats are fishing east of the Butterfish Hole and inside of the 750 line, and they are seeing a fair amount of draggers out there as well. A couple of giants have been brought into Montauk this week, all from southeast of Block Island.
Inshore things remain a little picky with both the stripers and fluke. Trolling seems to be producing the best bass, although there are some boats catching on the live scup or by bunker dunking. But there just don’t seem to be a lot of bass around, and boats have to work pretty hard to put a trip together. Fluke fishing is producing a lot of fluke and some very nice ones, but it seems that the fluke population has been pretty much picked over. There doesn’t seem to be an awful lot of edible ones left.
posted by fishingmontauk at Thursday, August 23, 2007
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