Fishing Report: Some Keepers and a Good Day for a Swim

The action out on the water picked up a little over Memorial Day Weekend but then again there were more anglers out there given the better weather. Here we present our round up of fishing reports from Port Jefferson to Mount Sinai.

On Wednesday Captain Desmond from Celtic Quest reported that unfortunately “the fluke were very uncooperative.” The fishermen on his boat out of Port Jefferson Harbor caught “about 50 fluke on the day with 6 keepers.”

Though all was not lost.

“Luckily we finished strong with some great porgy fishing,” he added.

He also reported on a trip out by Captain Neils on Sunday.

“Some real nice flatties came up,” he said.

Luv2Fish Charter’s Captain Barb posted a report on noreast.com on Sunday that the”last few days keeper fluke a little tougher to get, but still managing a few for the dinner table.”

She did give some advice saying that the bass and blues were “working close to the shoreline and fluke working sand eels in depths from 14 to 28 feet.”

A fisherman by the name of ryn123 reported that he went out fishing on Sunday and started out on the shoal.

“My mom managed one nice 24 inch fish,” he said. “Bite was slow though in this area, so we headed east to the Mt. Sinai area between 9 and Cedar Beach.”

He ended up spending the rest of the day there and said that “a halfway decent bite ensued for the rest of the day.”

“Landed 3 more keepers, including a 7 lbs. Slob,” he said. That one was also caught by his mother. (Lucky day for Mom.)

“The fish are still reluctant to bite agressively,” he said. “Hopefully as the water heats up so does the bite. Ended the day with four keepers for the three of us, and probably about 50 shorts.”

Ryn123 had one more day of fishing on Monday off Mt. Sinai and “with an incredibly slow drift the bite was finicky, but we still managed three keepers up to 6 lbs. Lots of bait in the water, had bluefish jumping around us most of the trip, casted my bucktail out once and landed a 10 lbs. blue.”

He said that any color worked well.

Fishing Station reported on noreast.com on a “weird day of weather” on Monday. Everything turned out better in the afternoon and they saw some nice fluke come in.

“Some porgies around Port Jefferson, but not what we should be seeing,” Caraftis reported. “They are definitely to our east. Blue fish are out there and so are Stripe Bass.”

And stromatolite reported an exciting adventure in Mt. Sinai saying it was a “fine day for a swim.”  On Monday stromatolite said that he tested out his life vest when he dropped a “gorilla bluefish” into his kayak.

“It slipped from my grip and slid head first into the forbidden zone,” he said. “That’s when me and the kayak parted ways. The water was chilly but refreshing.”

In total he landed several blues, one scup, one short striper, a dozen short fluke and one Jurassic sea robin.

“All fluke caught on bait. Bass and gorilla blue caught on rubber shad,” he said.