CT DEP Weekly Marine

1. STRIPED BASS fishing is good off Watch Hill, Sandy Point and Ram Island Reef in Fishers Island Sound, south side of Fishers Island including the rip off Wilderness Point, the Race (Valiant Rock), the Sluiceway, Plum Gut, Bartlett Reef, Millstone Point, Long Sand Shoal, Sixmile Reef, Southwest Reef, the reefs off Branford, Sandy Point in New Haven Harbor, Stratford Point area, Penfield Reef, Norwalk Islands, and the Cows off Stamford. The tube and worm combination has been working well for cow linesiders.
2. HICKORY SHAD fishing is fair to good in the Niantic River.
3. SUMMER FLOUNDER fishing is fair with alot of sub-legal "throwback" being reported. Flounder spots include the Mystic River to Groton Long Point, south side of Fishers Island (Isabella Beach), Black Point area, Niantic River, Westbrook-Clinton area, off Hammonasset Beach, Falkner Island area, off the New Haven Harbor breakwaters, and the Milford area to the mouth of the Housatonic River.
4. BLUEFISH fishing remains consistent in the Race and off Wilderness Point (Fishers Island), Plum Gut and Millstone Point, Sixmile Reef off Clinton, New Haven Harbor, the Milford-Charles Island area to the mouth of the Housatonic River, and off the Norwalk Islands.
5. TAUTOG fishing is good on the major reefs in Fishers Island Sound, Goshen Point (Harkness Memorial State Park), Bartlett Reef, Hatchett Reef, Sixmile Reef, Kimberly Reef, Goose Island, the reefs off Branford, Stratford Shoal/Middle Ground, Penfield reef, and Greens Ledge.
6. SCUP can also be found on the reefs and wrecks throughout LIS.