It is beginning to look a lot like fall here in Western Long Island Sound. The marinas, marshes, and tidal waters are starting to fill with young of the year bunker, and silversides. Around the islands there is rain bait (bay anchovies) that are getting picked at by terns and gulls. There are blitzes of small 1-2 lb bluefish. This is a transition period from the slow doldrums of August to the drag ripping, adrenaline pumping, cool, crisp mornings of fall here in New England. hopefully some of the Bonito that have shown up in large numbers off the Eastern part of the state have trickled in this way and will be popping up any day now. Usual the Albies have shown up by Mid September around the week of the 15th-19th. Last year I thought for sure they were not going to show, but hey made a surprise appearance on September 28th to grace us with their boisterous presence, luckily. I am hopeful that they will show up on time, or possibly even early since they have already shown up in good numbers off Cape Cod, Rhode Island, and the Eastern parts of CT. FINGERS CROSSED FOR A GOOD ALBIE RUN.
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