April is not quite in the books and the fish are already starting to show up in good numbers. While the recent cold snap has turned the bass bite off, the bluefish appeared in “full force” this past weekend according to Ken Morse of Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor. Starting in Moriches Inlet and working their way to Accabonac Harbor, the fish arrived on Sunday in Sag Harbor with anglers catching bluefish up to eleven pounds almost “effortlessly.”
While the Peconics are “ripe with bluefish,” and the creeks are loaded with schoolie size bass, squid also showed up in Montauk Harbor this week and were caught by some on squid jigs. A friend of Ken’s brought him 220 pounds just the other day, which will make for some prime weakfish bait.
Captain John McMurray of One More Cast Charters says fishing was pretty good this week in Jamaica Bay until the cold front and accompanying east wind kicked in on Saturday. There were loads of schoolie bass around just like last week, with some bigger fish in the mix. The amount of bunker in the back bay is extraordinary and the guys livelineing are scoring big. Not much in the way of small-bait so far, which can make flyfishing somewhat difficult, but still he is finding good numbers on the fly, and this will only continue to get better. Without a doubt, this season has started much earlier than the last three ... and that's a good thing.
Check back every Wednesday for a new report.
-Tee Clarkson
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