Rivers End Tackle: CT Fishing Reports

• STRIPED BASS- Action this week has been mixed with results dependent on bait. If you had live or fresh bait and hit Long Sand Shoal, Hatchetts, Southwest, some of the smaller local reefs or the Race it was a likely score. Sizes are running just around keeper plus or minus. Dawn or
• dusk casting at the lower Connecticut River produced scattered results. Theres bunker in the Lower River but not the numbers we saw in the latter part of last summer. Branford and west has a good body of menhaden.
• The Watch Hill Reefs haven't had a lot of action this week but Block Island has been good as has the upper reaches of Narragansett Bay.
• Bait fishers are still getting some mixed sizes of bass from the DEP Piers and Saybrook Point with fresh bunker or hickory shad.
• BLUEFISH- The lower Connecticut River still has some good plugging early and late in the day and fair bait fishing the rest of the time. Long Sand Shoal has some good sized choppers for chunkers. Southwest Reef, Plum Gut , Race and Pigeon Rip have had mixed results this week for
• blues.
• FLUKE- Generally good fluking this week when the weather permitted a good drift. We've been getting some of the best reports in a few years from Long Sand Shoal and Soundview off Old Lyme. The River has some decent fluking when the traffic allows. The south side of Fishers and off
• the RI Beaches has had some excellent reports.
• BLACKFISH- Yesterday was opening, day no reports yet.
• PORGIES- No great scores but some scup coming from Bartletts, Hatchetts and Black Point(Pat Abate)