Fisherman's World

• Fluke fishing is excellent at times. Fishing the Eatons neck triangle and also can 26 south of goose island out to 40ft, south of can 26 west along the 40ft line south of Copps island and middle passage. Drifting with strips of fresh squid and whole dead fresh squid. Strips of bunker and spearing have been the ticket. Bucktails with a teaser rig is also an excellent choice. Do not fish extremely windy days. 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. We've seen fish to 20 inches this week. Best catch of the week was Scott Martin who helps run cove marina 27 fluke thursday (7/12) afternoon up to 5 1/2 lbs.
• Chunking is better now in the Norwalk islands and the Darien area at night, places like Green's ledge, can 28 the small reef's (high spots south of green's ledge and green's ledge light) Budd's reef, 28c, 11b, ob buoy, and can 13 eatons neck have all have a mixture of bass and blue.
• The mouth of Norwalk harbor has large bass and blues coming in to feet at night. Note: largest bluefish 20lb 2oz on July 1st by Richard Epstein fishing with his brother Neil. Haven't seen a 20lb blue in the area in 20 years. We hope this is a good sign for the summer and fall.
• WICC bluefish tournament). Fresh bunker is a must, larger fish have had more bites with fresh bait. If not fresh bunker, fresh/frozen. Mackeral will catch fish too but they tend to catch smaller fish. Use a fish finder weight in deep water and no weight in shallow water in most cases. Use the minimum weight to hold bottom and change your weight consistently as the tide gets stronger or weaker. And as usual tube and worms are catching fish mostly school fish with a few keepers mixed in trolling in 1-20 ft of water in the Norwalk, Westport, Darien area. There has been some larger fish on the tube and worms on lead line at 11b and Eaton's neck. Blind casting with popping plugs(stillwater poppers land rapala skitter pops) in shallow water in the Norwalk islands have produced some nice blues and bass.