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Clinton Ct. Fishing Charter catching striped bass, blues, fluke, scup, and blackfishing
On Friday 5/15 the FlyingConnie participated in the Manhattan Cup. We cruised 40 nm down to Chelsea Piers, on the way cast netted 2 doz. Bunker off of City Island. The FlyingConnie was one of 60 boats taking anglers aboard to compete for largest Striped Bass, Bluefish, and Weakfish. Vineyard Vines the makers of very fine apparel, joined the FlyingConnie in a day of tournament fishing. Fishing from Vineyard Vines was Mike, Matt and Alex all dressed very well and ready to angle. We considered all the possible places to fish, and choose back to LIS, off of Hempstead, for a chance at bigger bass. In the end, we managed 5 bluefish to 8lbs and one 31’’ bass. Everyone had a great time and a great cause was benefitted.
5/20 The FlyingConnie sailed an evening trip for just the crew down to Hempstead for Striped Bass action. At first live bait was very tough to get onboard so we were delayed in getting set-up. Once we were set-up we had 2 hours of steady action, then the tide slacked around mid-night. The FlyingConnie boat 7 Striped Bass to 38” and many bluefish. Below are some pics. one of a double bass header. The action now is solid and is only going to get hotter.
Capt. Mike
May 30, When you read my reports you recognize this boat tells both the good and the bad, trips. Well yesterday The FlyingConnie was in the right place at the right time, with an all-star family aboard. The Gassaways from Key Largo Fla., caught the out going tide south of Stamford, and the fish were turned on. In four hours we had 20 Bass to 25lbs and about 6 bluefish. The Gassaways being from Fla. wanted to fish a bit with 12lb test. We set Dale up with a bimini twist to 30lb fluro then added a 5/0 Gama circle hook. The bait was usually laid in a chum ball and drifted back. The Gassaways landed at least 6 keeper bass this way. I can only hope to see another day like this, it just goes to show how good the fishing is right now.
Capt. Mike
6/7 The FlyingConnie Sailed with Dave Andrew and crew. Fishing fell right off, someone forgot to tell the fish there's a full moon and its June. Well we had perfect weather and 0 fish. We chucked our best spots: Cobble reef, pulled wire on I95 and then went back to Cobble for the second half of the tide. This is fishing and looking optimistically a shut out occurs about once a year, we got ours done and over with.
Capt. Mike
Fishing hasn't followed it typical yearly pattern so far. The Bass showed up 2 weeks earlier this spring and bassing was red hot till the June full moon. I believe that marked the first wave of bass we commonly get flushing out of the Hudson river enroute to farther places east of here. 6/8 The FlyingConnie had Brian Didonato and Mark aboard for our first evening trip. Usually Hempstead would be our spot, but we need to get in front of the fish. So we tried south of Captain Island a spot we normally fish mid-june. Armed with plenty of bait we set in for the night, no sooner we were surrounded by party boats. They must have been thinking the same thing. No bass but the bluefish kept the rods bent all night we even stayed an extra hour till the tide was done. Final tally at least a dozen of good fighting blue choppers.
Sat. 6/13 The FlyingConnie sailed with the Bradys onboard. Started the early morning with a gillnet lesson, but there were more boats then bunker in the back of Greenwich, so we went to our special stash.
Had good action south of Captains during the week and it continued in this trip too. Boated the Brady's first ever Striped Bass, a 33 incher, within minutes of setting up. Tried one more drop offf of Rye but pulled just one short bass.
Capt. Mike
FlyingConnie sailed 6/23 with the Schwartz aboard. Fishing started off slow, we fished bait inside & outside Captains. A few pods of bait came through not much on them either. Got up on the troll and had no stop action for an hour an half. Total count 9 bass (3 keepers) and 5 bluefish. Once again we had a very nice half day trip.
Capt. Mike
The FlyingConnie sailed 6/25 evening with John DeAngelis and his crew onboard. We caught some Sun, 17 bluefish, and one 36.5lb / 44" Striped Bass. We started south of Captain's (where we left them biting on Tues). We pulled wire and had many double hook ups with bluefish to ten pounds. Once everyone had sore arms and a little closer to dusk, we set up with chunks. At first we had just small blues on the bait, and then this big girl hit and dumps half spool of an avet mxl on her first run. Rico (the angler) handled the rod perfect. Before he was able to gain much line back the fish made another run. I ordered all lines be reeled in now! Luckily it was dead slack so this fish couldn't add the tide to her advantage. Rico and our premium tackle were really tested. By now she was tired; she came to the boat, and then sounded straight down. The big bass exhausted came up and fell into the net. Game over night over. This fish came on the anniversary of a 42lb Bass I caught in 1983.
Capt. Mike
This morning 7/7 the FlyingConnie sailed with Ethan from Jan's B&T. We had Bass and Blues on parachutes, eels and poppers south of Clinton, action was quick and fun. Call to get some action in!
Capt. Mike
On 7/20 the FlyingConnie took out Dick Inglis, his two grandkids(Kevin & Jeff) and his neighbor Tom. On Monday morning both the weather and the fishing was fantasic. We first stopped and dropped some eels on SW reef but the drift was to fast 2.9kts. We then headed to six mile reef where we did very well trolling wire, 3 keeper Bass, and 3 Bluefish in a short time, before the tide dropped out. On the slack we porgied fished, and all four rods were catching. Everyone had a great time, and will be eating alot of fresh fish for awhile.
Capt.Mike
On 7/31 the FlyingConnie made a quick early morning trip. Didn't have to go far to see Lenny from Jan's B&T land a 49"/44lb Bass. We pulled a couple no wheres near that size but a productive day none the less. Looking forward to Full moon this week , it should be great.
Capt. Mike
On 7/24 Fri. evening FlyingConnie ran out to the race. We arrived at 7pm and had bluefish all over. We caught many on bucktails to 12lbs. Then tide changed at the same time as it got dark. For 6 drifts in a row we had bass on to 28lbs, while eeling. After the sixth drift the rips were roaring, and our drift speed was up to 4kts. and the action shut right down. We were still on that new moon tide. Pulled lines in at 11pm, started for home. Five minutes in our return trip our phones started ringing warning us of a large major lighening/thunder storm. We were on the edge of our seats for the next 18nm till we reached the dock, beat the storm by 2 or 3 minutes. Final tally a dozen blues, and 6 bass to 28 lbs. Our plan was to take pics. back at the dock but that didn't happen.
Capt. Mike
On 8/7&8/8 FlyingConnie sailed from Clinton on two trips. The first was an evening feeding eels to striped bass trip, where Rob and Brian caught 5 bass to 35" and a few bluefish. We fished Long sand shoal, and 6 mile reef, fishing was consistant but no cows this time. Our second trip we had Brian Vaughn and family aboard for a half day morning trip. We tried really hard to get Brian a nice bass but many bluefish hit the deck instead. The full moon brought on a big tide and we had a strong west wind, this mix made achieving a nice bass tough. When conditions got poor we laided up inside and fluked with instant fish, all alittle to short.
Capt. Mike
The FlyingConnie sailed 8/25 with Marc and Todd onboard. Now I've reported good fishing this year from Manhattan to the Race, but todays trip edges out some of those other trips. We used up 25 pieces of bait before 730, then went in casted netted 20 pieces more, then back to our spot and where we continued to hammer the fish. Blues out populated the Bass 4 to 1, The FlyingConnie expirenced 4 hours of hooked up fishing with either big blues or bass up to 35lbs x 46 inches long. Final tally 20 bluefish and 5 keeper bass. I'm VERY optimistic for the next trips out.
Capt. Mike
The FlyingConnie sailed 9/5 with Phil Won's family and friends. We expirenced great fishing with a 33" bass, 8 bluefish to 9lbs and many, many porgies with a few keepers too. We started off pulling parachutes but heavy boat traffic forced us onto diamond jigs in the rips for our bass and blues. Then we headed to porgy fish, the kids had a blast. Right now looks terrific, were seeing: bass, blues, false albies, porgies and soon blackfish with a 45fish per person porgy limit. Come on out.
Capt. Mike
The FlyingConnie sailed yesterday 10/11 with Neill Singh and crew from NY, NJ. We fished our plan: fish bluefish till tide eased then bottomfish the rest of it. It worked great, we trolled up 10 bluefish to 14lbs on parachutes. Then moved to a nice rock pile, we picked away at 9 seabass to 20" (many shorts too), 2 blackfish 4lbs each, and 90 porgys to 18" in a 5 hour trip. Outgoing tide isn't my favorite but it couldn't have worked better yesterday.
Capt.Mike
Today 10/14 the FlyingConnie sailed just to catch some Blackfish for dinner. Whenever I go out alone, my wife asks "When will you be back?" I alway give her a completely unrelastic time, then show up two or three hours late. Today I was early, caught my 4 fish limit (all 4 pounders) in 40 mins.
Capt. Mike
Yesterday (10/20) The FlyingConnie sailed with Lenny (from Jan's Bait and Tackle) and Todd (FlyingConnie's mate)for some Blackfishing.
We were anchored in just as the tide turned to incoming, and the bite was on in 35'. It wasn't easy fishing, cause of wind vs. tide, but the FlyingConnie still limited out in two hours. No monsters all were 3 to 4.5lb fish, great fight even better tasteing. Got to jump in on this action.
Capt. Mike
FlyingConnie took out Norwalk Firefighters today (11/2)for Blackfish. Forecast was for lite NE wind, WRONG. Got out to a 35' piece at slack tide and had pure E wind to 20kts 3to4' sea. Four Blackfish came up quick and a Seabass then the tide started to ebb. Wind vs tide turn seas to nasty, we pulled the hook. Went over to SW reef birds workin everywhere, hooked up a quick 20 bluefish keeping smaller ones for dinner.
Cut out the bluefish found spearing, butterfish, whole bunker, and a look up fish not a butter (fishing my whole life only seen them in an aquarium).
Capt. Mike
Today (11/4) the FlyingConnie sailed with the famous Tony Barone. We fished (in 35' south of Clinton) the slack and a little part of the outgoing had our limit in about an 1.5 hours. Sorry no pics.
Capt. Mike
