Drifting Bucktails trolling wire and drifting eels all worked successfully on the bass and we are not even in the fall run mode yet. We also had some gorilla blues to 16 lbs in the mix. The picture above is of Mr. Clarence Davis with a 40-pound bass caught on the Celtic just a short while back. NOW is the time to book charters for the 2001 fall season. Both day and night tides are producing fish with some saying the day producing better than night and the larger fish are at night.
Outgoing tide is better on both bass and blues.
Bass are being caught on bucktails and live eels, bluefish on diamond jigs. Porgies were still hot off of Gardner's Island and in all bays and creeks. Use clams and squid baits for the scup and both tides are working and if you fish a hard running tide area, fish it on the slack so you can drift. Porgy action continues to be the best they've seen in this area for 10 years. Porgies are now also found out on the Sound side of the North Fork between 30 to 40-foot of water or right off the beach too with clams or worms and squid all working.