6/24 - Northfork

[Northfork]

Still not seeing any fish or any bait for that matter but also not seeing any blue skies or any sun. Visiblity into the water for fish has been very limited these last 2 weeks. Fished from shore from 3:45 to 6 PM on an outgoing tide at an interesting estuary that has flats, deep channels with fast current at the inlet and some small side creeks feeding into the main channels.
I ended up with 3 bass to 12 lbs - the other 2 were dinks - on a chartreuse clouser I tied last night. I used "yak hair" instead of bucktail which I usually tie with. Find that it - the yak hair - is more durable and you can tie a longer fly but the hairs tend to tangle. Not sure I will switch from bucktail at this point.
I was only person fishing at this particular site - which I like - sort of like this fishing web site - no one around - which is not so good. Miss the days when Tuna - aka Peter Rothwell - was driving this forum.
I'll do my best to generate some interest but without any feedback soon will probably fallback to a site like SOL which while being a spin fisher centric site also has a much more active fly forum for the NY/LI area than here.

[JGH]

Agreed....this forum is dead....I've tried to juice it a few times, without many takers. People seem more interested in Montauk reports in the fall -- when you don't really need reports to tell you to fish -- so go figure...

[brushfly]

I'm still lurking and add my two cents now and then. SOL seems like a tough lot. Of the three I go on routinely this is still the most Gentlemenly. It's not just Tuna that's missed, that whole East End crowd seemed to have disappeared. "Spot Burn" has everybody running gun shy I guess.

With that said, tremendous worm hatch in Huntington Harbor this morning. First time I ever saw bas on worms in daylight in all my years on the N. Shore. Usually it's under darkness at some un-godly hour in the wee early morning/ midnight. Only managed four out of this smorgesboard (Dixon's Devil Worm). One fish no bigger then 22" but amazingly was a full 6.5lbs on my boga. Could not believe how fat this thing was, must have had two pounds of worms in his distended belly from the feedbag he must have put on at the start of the outgoing.

[JGH]

I was out after midnight on Tues looking for a hatch in Rye/Larchmont area, and didn't find any. Glad to hear there was one somewhere.

Hopefully we can prompt some activity on this board again. It was/is one of the best around, in my view, and it would be a shame to see it stay silient through the season.

[Northfork]

Happy to hear from some folks. I haven't seen a good worm hatch out here this year. Not sure what flies I would use. Bugs starting to get strong in the marshes. Great place to fish but sometimes they will drive you crazy.
Fished from shore from 1 pm to 4:30 pm - outgoing tide - poor visibility - calm winds. Caught 2 bass - 24" and 26" - on a white clouser and missed two bigger fish.
I'm a life long fisherman who has fished this area - east end of north fork - for over 30 years. Spent most of my time out here bucktailing for bass in Plum Gut. Got into flyfishing about 6 years ago and seriously - like its the only type of fishing I do now - about 3 years ago.
Can't believe the productive waters I've passed by on my way to the Gut. With no one on them. This year I've seen a fish I estimated to be about 25 lbs. in one foot of water. Have caught one to 15 lbs 2 feet from shore.
I'll get this figured out. I'm only 65. Lots more time to fish.

[fmw]

I'm still lurking and add my two cents now and then. SOL seems like a tough lot. Of the three I go on routinely this is still the most Gentlemenly. It's not just Tuna that's missed, that whole East End crowd seemed to have disappeared. "Spot Burn" has everybody running gun shy I guess.

With that said, tremendous worm hatch in Huntington Harbor this morning. First time I ever saw bas on worms in daylight in all my years on the N. Shore. Usually it's under darkness at some un-godly hour in the wee early morning/ midnight. Only managed four out of this smorgesboard (Dixon's Devil Worm). One fish no bigger then 22" but amazingly was a full 6.5lbs on my boga. Could not believe how fat this thing was, must have had two pounds of worms in his distended belly from the feedbag he must have put on at the start of the outgoing.

Reports elsewhere of dozens of dolphin/porpoise in Huntington and CSH yesterday. One of the posts is talking about a dusk blitz last nite of a 100 plus dolphin along the Causeway. There must be oodles of sand eels.

[brushfly]

Frank,

I got a call from a buddy who almost drove off the Causway on his way home from work, that's how many there were. Saw the posts on the other website. Hope all is well out east.

Bob

[Retac]

JGH - was out in New Rochelle Tues night around Glen Island and as the tide started to move ....the worms came alive, then the bass to follow. Lots of fish blowing up on the worms but all seemed to be rat sized. Naturally as the fish started so did the rain again..go figure. I packed it in around 12:30am.

[JGH]

Good chat on this forum. I was making a trip by water from Rye to Milford, CT, yesterday morning and came upon the dolphins off the Norwalk Islands as they were heading west. It was a breathtaking sight. At first, I thought it was the mother-of-all-blitzes, as from a distance I saw birds working over enormous splashes, but then it became clear it was dolphins. There were at least several dozen, maybe many more. I have a poor quality camera-phone picture, but don't know how to post. One of the coolest things I ever saw on the water...I just wish my kids were there to see it. The boats seemed to give them a wide berth, which is good. I wonder what drew them into the Sound...clean water? lots of bait? I hope they're not eating our stripers!!

As for fishing, the bluefish have moved into some of the wester sound harbors...I picked up a couple nice (10+ lbs) on poppers on Sunday morning.

[sbeausol]

hey guys-

i'm coming to visit from boston for what i understand to be an incredibly busy weekend. hoping to wet a line somewhere on the north fork, although i'm finding it difficult to figure out where to try (PM me if you're feeling charitable :) )....

are the blues active yet?