Montauk Sportfishing Report 9/20/04

9/20/04

The fall run is here! The surfcasters are smiling, as are the flyguys. Bait
is moving and bass, blues and falsies are eating heavy.

The live porgies are still producing big time for the boater, and
practically no one is trolling for bass anymore. Most only troll when the
weather makes drifting too uncomfortable, like it was for most of the week
on the ebb tides.

The leftover from hurricane IVAN arrived in a flash around mid day Saturday.
One minute there was a ten knot breeze, and the next there was a forty knot
gale, accompanied by a couple of waterspouts. The guys who were fishing
morning trips were at the dock when it hit. Those on all day trips had a
rough ride home, and the ones on offshore trips had extremely crappy rides
home, much of the time at idle speed.

The Long Island Classic was held over the weekend, and much of the fishing
was in classic surfcasting weather, with high winds and heavy surf. I
stopped into Freddies on Sunday afternoon and a couple of guys who had just
dropped by were talking about the best surfcasting they had ever had. They
spent the morning at Turtle Cove all morning hauling in bluefish and bass.
The Classic ended at noon, but a couple of guys got to the shop a couple of
minutes too late, with stripers they had taken off the sand beach still
wiggling. The results are as follows;

1st Place Bass - Matt McDermott - 34.44 lbs

2nd Place Bass - Mike Lang - 32.00 lbs

3rd Place Bass - John Peros - 23.72 lbs

4th Place Bass - Matt Vega - 21.24 lbs

5th Place Bass - Frank Solano - 19.96 lbs

1st Place Blue - Dan Austen - 15.34 lbs

2nd Place Blue - Richie Michelsen - 11.78 lbs

3rd Place Blue - Barry Barone - 11.44 lbs

4th Place Blue - Jay Flynn - 10.58 lbs

5th Place Blue - Andy Richman - 9.88 lbs

Offshore the main tuna action right now is way to the east at the Mudhole,
with lots of small bluefins, along with some keepers trailing the draggers.
A long way to the south there are still longfins and some yellowfins, along
with lots of mahi around the pots.

For information about the Montauk Boatman's and Captain's Association two
month long bass tournament in October and November, go to
http://www.montauksportfishing.com/BassTournament.htm

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fishing in Montauk, you can give me a call at 800 280 5565 or check out
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Capt Gene Kelly
Tropical Fishing Adventures
Montauk Sportfishing
800 280 5565
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