Here it is September 25th, still no confirmed catches of albies or bonito by myself or close fishing friends. Only the local tackle shop is saying there are "reports of scattered/random schools of albies" reported near Stratford, and Norwalk.
I knew of 3 guys, that all went fishing yesterday, they did not see a single hard tail. They did however catch; blues, stripers, porgies, sea bass and saw a pod of dolphins near smithtown bay.
Fished yesterday afternoon. Not a SINGLE SPLASH WAS SEEN. Jigged up a ton of small sea bass and porgies any where we stopped.
A lot of fisherman were hoping after this hard blow we had for the last week, that it would be the perfect time for the hard tails to slide in to our area. This just has not happened yet.
I am slightly concerned that the albies just may not show this year, because there are no reports (that I know of coming from RI and MTK) any more. A week or 2 ago there were a lot of reports from the area, now there are guys saying there are no albies to speak of. Some guys are saying that the water is just too churned up right now because of the heavy wind and heavy surf. They are hopeful that once it settles down, the albies will show up in full force.
If the eastern areas like eastern CT, RI, MTK are not seeing any albies, then we (western long island sound) will likely not see any either, since their migration starts from the east where the atlantic ocean means long island sound, then they move further west.
Still hopeful...
If its going to happen it will be literally any day now...today? tomorrow?
