Marine Weekly Fishing Report #4 5/14/09

Water temperatures in Long Island Sound (LIS) are around 50 °F.

• STRIPED BASS fishing is good to excellent. Bigger fish have arrived on the reefs and tidal rivers with stripers in the 45 inch range being reported. Striper spots include the Pawcatuck River, upper Thames River (Norwich Harbor down to Montville), lower Connecticut River from Hamburg Cove down to the breakwaters, New Haven Harbor (Sandy Point), Bridgeport Harbor by the power plant warm water discharge (Breezy Point/Seaside Park), Housatonic River, Saugatuck River and the Norwalk Islands.
• HICKORY SHAD are also in the tidal rivers mixed in with school stripers.
• BLUEFISH have made their way into LIS but it is still early yet.