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Bass

5/31/2012

Location
GSB

Fishing Report
Headed out early to fish the pods, plenty of bunker today from Gilgo west but could not connect with any Bass under the pods. Wind picked up so headed in with some live bunker, managed 3 fish around 20lbs with Al's proven live bait rig.. Great weather, great day on the water..

Rich Figlia

The Blue Fin are here!

5/27/2012

Location
offshore

Fishing Report
went offshore with frankie francescos we set up in chicken canyon and trolled up 8 blue fin from 40# to 100# they were feeding on sandeels so we switched over to the jig caught 5 more (want to thank john from TROPHY TACKLE for picking the jigs they wanted

Billy Conn

37' In Striper Catch of the day

5/19/2012

Name
Anthony Babich

Location
GSB State Channel/Amityville

Fishing Report
Went out early AM yesterday wt a few buddies hooked on to some real nice fish,On my own 23 Mako. Had a couple blues take some hooks. Caught some small average sized bass on the incoming tide. Just at the tide change I managed to hook on to this after putting on fresh clam bellies a nice 37 incher. Actually saw Al's boat the Skimmer pass me by looked great!! Fished for a few more hours caught some blues and went home. The slipgut seemed to ease up a little but still clogging lines up. Beautiful day this seems to be the best action rt now by me.

Blues all over the inlet

5/19/2012

Today Ron and Mike from the BJ's loss prevention team fished aboard John D's boat Jack3D we tried for a little bit of everything. The Bass were not cooperating so we tried for Fluke no luck there either. I wanted to put the guys on to some action so we hit Demo point with the jigs and did a number on the cocktail blues landed over fifty in about 1 1/2 hrs and the guys had a blast. Mike has never fished salt water on long island so this was a great treat for him. Slow start turned out to be a great day!

John Dannenfelser

May 18th, 2012

5/18/2012

Fire Island Inlet

Today Billy and I started the day off early fishing in the Ocean
Beach area for weakfish. We found plenty of action with mostly small
fish to 5.5 lbs. Rubber imitation sand worm in motor oil color with a
¾ oz head was the hot bait. I was also aware of a large number of king
fish inside the inlet and we took some time out to gather them as Bass
bait. Well that work real well and we were able to catch 5 bass to
24lbs on the outgoing tide. Bunker schools were still sitting just
outside the inlet and were be harassed but we were no able to score
here.
RB

Bass/Blues

5/14/2012

Location
GSB

Headed out after work, tried plugging the incoming, couldn't raise a fish, water was dirty even tried a rattle plug. Picked up friends at captree and caught a bunch of blues by the wreck buoy. Tried for some weakfish near West Island and Kismet but to no avail. Next drifted some live eels and connected with 2 Bass around 15lbs on the outgoing. Here is my friend Anthony with a 35 inch 15lb Bass. Still waiting for water to clean up, hopefully the big boys are on the way..

Blues and more Blues

5/14/2012

Name
John Dannenfelser

Date Caught
05/14/12

Location
Fire Island

Fishing Report
Headed out early today on the boat looking for some fluke and maybe a bass heavy slip gut and no luck on the way home saw the birds working and switched to a diamond jig. Good eating size blues on every cast kept my limit saved a few for myself and donated the rest to the Am Vets hall in Bay Shore a great bunch of guys and I'm sure they will have a great fish fry tonight all blues 2-4 lb avg. great day on the water despite no bass or fluke!

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5/13/2012

Fire Island Inlet
The Bunker schools have been sitting just outside the inlet at the whistle buoy for a couple of days now and there has been no real action. So Billy and I decided to sneak out today at first light and see if that would work. Nadda we work hard to snag 8 pieces and not a touch so we ran them into the inlet and tried our favorite spots and
did produce 5 fish but they were all small as you can see. The biggest may have gone 20lbs, if I kept my thumb on the scale. So far the spring has been a bust no big fish yet. There are weakfish to be had on sandworms but they too are small 2 to 5 lbs.
RB

Big Ocean Fluke off of Gilgo

5/12/2012

Kathy was fishing south of Gilgo in 55' of water when she thought she was hooked up to another Dogfish. When she was able to see the fish she screamed "O MY GOD", it turned out to be a 25.5" Fluke tipping the scale at 7 pounds. The Fluke fell for a Fluke Belly and Spearing combo.

Peconic Fluke

5/2/2012

North Fork, L.I.
Today Billy and I went fluking out in Greenport we did manage our
limit of fluke, hey which now is 4 a man (nice) and had about a total
of 35 fish total. The day was cold a raw and all the keepers just made
minim limit. But no slip gut and super clean water. Friday I may
return to the North Fork or head back to Jamaica Bay were the fish
have been mostly small bass on live bunker. I have been tracking the
big girls and some 40-50 fish are starting to show .Hopefully they
will be here soon.
RB