Ok folks, it’s been awhile since I checked in but the spring run is on. Truth be told it has been a tough season for me so far. The weather seems to be god awful on weekends with either high winds or torrential downpour, and beautiful on weekdays when I’m kooked up in my office.
First fish came for me on April 16th, and It’s been on and off since then. Good night April 21st although I had to work for it. Good night April 28th east in Fairfield with best quality fish so far blitzing on small bait in an outflow. This past Thursday AM had some nice fish on topwater in the mouth of the norwalk river. All reports have been from shore so far except for this Thursday.
I have friends doing ok a bit west of here with bigger fish in greenwich and stamford. One well known report of a 42 lber in stamford. The usual wire trollers in greenwich are catching fish in 20s. Not my cup of tea personally. Some reports of good fish upriver in the norwalk and saugatuck a few weeks ago. I haven’t personally seen any herring or adult bunker, in fact all I’ve seen is spearing 4-5 inches. I may have missed the herring run upriver. In JBay in Brooklyn the fishing seems to be excellent. Guys on Housy are doing ok, not killing it recently it seems. It sure seems to me as though we had sort of a ‘false start’ in that the water temps are here (mid 50s), but the big bait is not. The rain has slowed things down a bit.
This weekend I will be going full bore. Late night tides and approaching full moon SHOULD in theory turn things on. I’ll be likely doing plugging and fly casting during day hours and chunking at night with some plugging mixed in. I will be focusing on the mouth of rivers/creeks, and possibly out in the islands. Hoping to find the bait and let that dictate my efforts.
Good luck out there.
Norwalk Islands Fishing 