Rivers End Tackle, Old Saybrook

• STRIPED BASS- The Connecticut River is fishing very good right now but the sometimes heavy rains forecast for the next few days makes the conditions tough. The bass will be in the River but tougher to find and you'll have to dodge a lot of logs. They've been in Plum Gut since mid week and should be in the Race this weekend. They are also in East Rip and should be in Southwest Reef in a couple of days. Its no longer necessary to confine your bass fishing to the River. Long Sand Shoal has had some bass on live bunker. The DEP Piers have also had some larger bass on bunker and numbers of bass on worms.
• BLUEFISH- They've only been around a week or so and we're already getting complaints from the fluke fishermen that they're pests. There have been some reports of blues off Millstone and surprisingly not too many reports in the River. Both Montauk and Greenport are loaded with blues.
• FLOUNDER- A couple of reports of flounder in Niantic.
• FLUKE- There have been reports from early in the week of consistent catches as far west as Mattituck on the north shore of Long Island and New Haven on our side of the pond. A few were reported caught on Long Sand Shoal last weekend. Rhode Island opens up today and we should get some action over the week end if the winds lay down. Fishers Island has had some fluke for over a week. (Pat Abate)