Fluking continues to be good off Shinnecock and Montauk according to Ken Morse at Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor. The season remains in through the month. Bass fishing is okay, but screwy tides this week made fishing difficult. Weakfish are biting early in the morning in the Peconics, as are all the snapper blues you could ever want. Offshore, fishing slowed this week, but Ken did hear a report of an 80-pound wahoo.
To the west, Captain John McMurray of One More Cast Charters reports no signs of pelagics, and he’s been looking hard. Fortunately, there are good amounts of big bluefish, and even better yet, they aren't offshore like they were last week. There are also some bass along structure. The good news is there are crazy amounts of bait. There are schools of bay anchovies like you wouldn't believe out front, and the usual, dense seasonal concentrations of peanut bunker in the back. Unfortunately, so far it's just been blues and the occasional bass on them. The big bait concentrations really just happened this weekend. So, it's only a matter of time before those false albacore and hopefully some bonito find them, the pieces are definitely in place and it should blow up any day now. It should be a great fall if this bait sticks around and John still has some choice dates open for it, but they won't last long.
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–Tee Clarkson
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