See Bass Run

It’s happening, it has happened, it will happen. Those are the tenses used to describe the fishing during the past week. One’s view of the fall run is totally dependent on where and when you fish. For example, Montauk seems to be on one day and off the next. A friend of mine left a message on my phone that he enjoyed a few days of terrific fishing in the Montauk rips for bass up to 35-pounds. A couple of other light tackle guides I know fishing the Point and the southside reported having to work very hard to make a decent day of fishing for their clients. The north shore has spurts of activity with bass and bluefish making an appearance along the beaches and then a day later the only game in town is blackfish. And then some good bass, blues and even a few leftover bonito showed up at Mt. Sinai Harbor. The western Sound produced some nice bass this week with a number of fish into the mid 20’s. The folks over on the CT side are still into bass, blues and the occasional albie. The south shore beaches can be hot as a firecracker one tide and all quiet the next. J-Bay has been active as have been some of the beaches in northern New Jersey but even that fishing has been far from predictable. The most consistent shot at the Long Island Hat Trick has been in the area of the Race where some of last week’s hottest albie action took place. The south shore beaches from The End down to Moriches have yielded mostly bass and blues this past week with some sustained blitzes in the foam.