Fisherman's World 7/27

• Fluke fishing has been very good. Fishing the Eaton's neck triangle and Eaton's neck by can 13, and the obstruction buoy has been excellent. Many fish are being caught there. The largest fish we weighed this week was 9lb 6oz caught by Tom Cuprys. Also George DiScala Jr. had a 6lb fluke in the same area. Jason Velicky has been hammering fluke up to 7lbs. Mike Hannon has been catching an awful a lot of keepers up to 6.5 lbs. Tom, George, and Jason have all caught there fish at the Eaton Neck's Triangle.
  
• Mike has been fishing between Copp's island and Goose Island in 20-30ft of water. Buck tails with a teaser baited with squid or bunker strips have been the ticket. Also tip with spearing. Baiting buck tails with a strip of squid with spearing has also been good jigged right on the bottom. Also the CT side south of buoy 26 and middle passage in 30ft of water. There are fluke some day’s at peck's ledge, middle passage, and buoy 28 southwest of Great reef. The bait to use is Squid strips, in combination with sand eels or spearing on fluke rigs or buck tails also fresh bunker strips and fluke bellies.
  
• Note to remember: fluke do not bite well, if at all, wind against tide. It is not good to fluke fish with an outgoing tide and an east wind or vice versa. It is best to fish on nice days not windy days. Drifting too fast for fluke is also not productive, over 1.5 knots it gets difficult. If you do not want to travel to far for fluke. There are fluke in the Norwalk harbor in the deep hole a few feet west of the shore country club dock. (Do not fish there when there is a lot of boat traffic on the weekends, the police will ask you to move, during the week its not problem.) Also the hole in middle passage, 40ft, between Shimmons and Shay Island. And the North side and the North west side of peck's ledge light house. Right down the east channel, to Bett’s Island.
• There have been many stripers caught this week. Most of the fish are under 20lbs but lots of action with bass and blues chunking. Can 13; north of Eaton's neck coast guard station, in 30 to 40ft of water has been very good for larger striped bass. Fishing daybreak and dusk sometimes produces bunker schools with still some large bass underneath the schools, with live bunker. Chunking 28c, budd's reef, the ob buoy and between Eaton’s neck and can 13 has plenty of action with bass and blues. Fresh bunker is the ticket but mackerel will also work.
  
• For those of you who like to cast plugs, there have been schoolie bass up to 15lbs breaking in the early mornings south side of goose island, Cockenoe island. There has been a crab hatch of many small crabs. You do not need to see fish breaking you can blind cast plugs in the shallow water in the Norwalk islands and the Darien area. Do not forget tube and worming is still producing many fish. Fishing the same areas that we are plugging in.
• Many blues being caught while chunking for striped bass in the above-mentioned areas, and at times you can find the bluefish breaking, a few mornings at 28c a few bluefish have been breaking. They are liable to come to the surface anywhere. Be prepared to use poppers, rattle traps, and spoons. There has been a large school of bunker near the I95 Bridge in the Norwalk harbor. Some mornings the large bluefish are in the harbor chasing the bluefish. It is a good idea to troll a swimming plug while leaving the Norwalk harbor at 5 mph. (rapalal, or yo-zuri) do not forget we already weighed in a 20lb bluefish in the Norwalk harbor this year, so there are some big blues out there.
• Sea bass and Porgy's- At this time of year chumming is definitely a plus, fish will come right to your boat, clam chum is the preferred bait. There are porgy's 32A off of Stamford, with some nice seabass mixed in. The same is going on at 28C. Try buoy 28 next to great reef the rock pile south of copp's island 42ft of water at low tide. For action on small, short porgy's, with some keepers mixed in, at peck's ledge lighthouse.