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Night Striped Bass Capt. Ant reports a frustrating night of Bassing.  15-20kts out of the SW against a strong Ebb…yuck..tough drifting conditions had us drifting backwards in order to keep the lines straight.  The fish were there and stacked and biting, but they were biting tentatively.  I saw 3 fish come up last night just holding the eel tail, never getting the hook, and it wasn’t from swinging early.  You really had to be experienced to catch last night as our regulars, Chris Luke, Doug Seay and Jonny Jesus of the Elbow Rewinski tallied 3,2,2, respectively.  Chris himself said he missed about 12 bites.  So overall all we scratched and clawed and put a catch together with some absolute beauty Moo Cow Linesiders in the mix as well with two fish breaking the 35lb mark and, by divine intervention a…

Night Striped Bass Capt. Ant reports an EXCELLENT night of fishing on both jigs and eels.  We started the night with the last of the flood and found birds working and fishing rolling, we nailed a few bass, had a few shorts, some scup, 2 fluke and many Monster Blues.  With the rain came a quick sunset so we switched to eels for the last ounce of flood and nailed one more and dropped a couple.  The ebb never really got going though we picked up one up inside but it was slow for a an hour or so.  Then we stumbled upon a pile that lit the screen up.  Game on…bass and big blues .  All the bass were healthy going 20-25lbs with our biggest at 28.  We had fish on our last 7 drifts, a great way to…

Half Day Fluke AM Captain Joe reports an amazing day of fishing with tons of action throughout the day. There were many keeper fluke. There was a bunch of keeper sea bass up to 4 lbs. The pool winner was mike nagle from Mahopac, NY with a 6.7lber. The 2nd place winner was Joe Miele from Cortlandt manor, NY with a 5.2lb fluke. Full day Porgies Captain Dave reports a very good day of fishing. Most of the catch was porgies with a few fluke and sea bass in the mix. We caught a 15 lb striped bass as well. The pool winner was Chris K from Astoria, NY with a 3lb porgy. Half Day Fluke PM Captain Joe reports that fluking was a little bit flower this afternoon than it was in the morning. There were loads of sea…

Night Striped Bass Captain Ant reports a very good night of Bassing overall once we found the where the Moo Cows were grazing.  We started at our jigging spot but had to deal with the slack tide.  We managed a few keepers but double the amount of shorts so we MOOOved on after about an hour of combing.  The next spot produced 1, but a larger one.  Next drift none, we MOOOved on.  Finally we had a 2 fish drift…we weren’t MOOOVING.  We drilled it out for the rest of the night with 1 or 2 a drift but all slobs.  We totaled 6 fish in the 30’s including pool winner Chris Hunter from MOOOntauk with a 38.1lber.  Chris “Cool Hand” Luke had a 36.7.  And then there were the young ladies…14 Year old Jenna Fusco nailed a 36.6lber and…

John Viol 2nd Annual Codfest Capt Carl reports a great 2nd annual “Codfest” charter by John and Diane Viol! We traveled far and deep to some offshore wrecks and had Cod on all of them! Some of the wrecks were loaded up, and some just OK, but overall there were loads and loads of fish to filet by the end of the first day! There were also a few small pollacks, tons of cunners, a couple sow hake, and other wreck dwellers. Coolers were full by the end of the day, so we steamed overnight back to coxes ledge for day two. The morning saw some quality fish coming over the rails off of a couple different drops, and they were biting the jigs very well too! Day one was for quantity, and day two saw the quality. Overall it…

Half Day Fluke AM Captain Joe reports a fine day of fluke fishing today. We had some nice fluke and sea bass throughout the morning. There was some fine action and everybody left happy. Kyle Hannan from Manor Park, NY had a beautiful 7.3lbs Fluke and 5 year old Luke John Norris from Whitestone, NY caught  a nice 3lb sea bass. The pool winner was Giulio Manucuso from Forest Hills, NY with a 5.3lbs Fluke. Full Day Porgies Captain Dave reports better porgy fishing today. Some sea bass and a few fluke were caught as well. The pool winner was Rodelio Zapanta from Astoria, NY with a 3lb Porgy. Half Day Fluke PM Captain Joe reports good action today despite the windy and wavy conditions. Every group went home with a fluke and a sea bass. The pool winner was…

Half Day Fluke PMCaptain Joe reports another great afternoon of fluke fishing! There was tons of action with fluke and scup and we also saw some really nice sea bass (all released unharmed) but we will have to wait until tomorrow to bring those beauties home! Michele Wisch of Stanford CT took the pool with her 4.5lb fluke! Full Day Montauk Porgies Captain Dave reports an okay day of fishing today. It was a little slow in the morning, but picked up a bit in the afternoon with a couple fluke, some bluefish and some porgies. We also had a handful of sea bass (all released unharmed). Just a reminder- Sea Bass opens tomorrow July 10 in NY!!! So make sure you are here for the first day! Alfredo Olivo Orokn of Brooklyn took the pool with his 3.5lb porgy….

Monday July 8 Sunset Stripers Capt. Ant reports a very successful Sunset Striper trip…we saw the sunset, we caught some Stripers!!!!  We hit the lighthouse and only caught a couple of rats on the first 3 drifts but we didn’t quite have the tide so we ventured on to try a spot we haven’t been to in awhile.  Bust…luckily it was only 10 minutes away so we headed back.  Once again fish were everywhere, from top to bottom on the machine and swirling on the surface and once again they were tough to catch.  3 on the first drift, none on the second, 2 on the third…uggh!!!  We had a couple fluke come up including a 6lber which had a 30lb Striper literally hanging on it’s tail.  At one point we had a pod of bass right under the pulpit…

Night Striped Bass Captain Anthony can finally say MOOOOO! We got them big last night, late but big! We caught the last of the flood and the fish were stacked! We were only able to manage 1 keeper and 1 shorty in these drifts. We bailed the scup and fluke on the jigs so at least rods were bending. We sat through 2 full hours of lull, lost a couple of nice bites, but with an hour to go the big boys started biting. We had a total of 4 fish over 30lbs! George “Novelist” Jehn nailed a 38.5lb and a 31.7lb striped bass. Gunther Vanderdoesch took with pool with a 38lb 8 oz striper and Chase Derasmi took second place with his 33lb striper. Justin, Bryan and Jesse did a phenomenal job assisting all of the anglers aboard the…

Tuesday July 2 Half Day Fluke AM Captain Joe reports a very good day of bottom fishing this morning! There was lots of action all morning with a ton of shorties, some porgies and a couple sea bass (all released unharmed). The boat had about a dozen keepers! Today’s pool winner was John Mundjer of Verona, NJ with a 5lb fluke. Full Day Montauk Porgies Captain Dave reports a pretty good morning on the porgy grounds today. They saw a huge improvement in the porgies today, along with about 10 keeper fluke and about 4 stripers. Today’s pool winner was Bolliva Perez of the Bronx with a 3.5lb porgy. Half Day Fluke PM Captain Joe reports a wonderful afternoon of fishing! It was great action the entire trip! We had plenty of fish for everyone including about 20 keeper fluke…