Southeastern New England provides one of the most unique and diverse fisheries anywhere. The fishing changes as quickly and frequently as our conditions do and it’s great.
From early spring when our local winter residents start to move towards open waters, and the migration of stripers from their more southern spawning grounds start chasing the bait around Montauk, Block Island, etc on their way north, to gator bluefish busting the surface through the summer until the hard tails pop up around the end of summer combined with the stripers swinging back through on their way south for the winter, creating the epic “fall run”
Fishing out of Southeastern CT is as good as it gets for a couple of unique reasons to the area. Similar to living in Connecticut, you have countless options within a very short distance. Run the shoreline from the CT River to Newport, jump over to Montauk or Block, stay in fishers island sound, run over to the flats inside the fork of eastern LI, and on and on. Its all very accessible from here. Allowing you to actively stay on good fishing as things change through the seasons.
We are fortunate here to have stripers to fish for year-round. The striper fishing gets really good in the spring as our local winter residents head out and the migration from as far south as the Carolinas swing through on their way north for the winter.
As the striper action starts to die down, Bluefish takeover, relentlessly destroying gear and emptying your fly boxes and it’s a blast. Ignored by too many, bluefish are one of the most fun, aggressive and hard fighting fish.
Bass “Rafting”
While we have resident stripers that stick around in good numbers all summer after migration pushes through, they tend to feed less and hunker down in their spots more and become more selective. Until the end of the summer when things break lose and it becomes a frenzy. Typically, around mid-August you start to see the baitfish roll in, the bass start to trickle back in in larger numbers on their way back south and the resident bass start to break out of their summer patterns. A tell tale sign that the “fall run” is about to happen is when you start seeing large schools of bass “rafting”. They will stay up on the surface, mouths wide open, in large schools sucking down the tiny rain bait. Visually rewarding, tactically difficult and tons of fun. But it makes what is coming right behind that when everything opens up that much more fun.
Bonito, Albies, Blues and Endless Bass
.Then its a couple months of some of the best fishing anywhere. The bait floods the area and the fish feed on a frenzy on their journey back south for the winter. The stripers not only keep coming in droves but they feed aggressively and steadily. The “hard tails” show up and create some of the best fly fishing of the season. Pound for pound they are some of the best fighting fish, they take flies without hesitation and rip line off the reel with ease.
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