TYPES OF FISHING

Fishing for Striped Bass and Bluefish and being located in Westbrook provides many options for fishing the area reefs as well as the Race, the Gut and Falkners Island. Evening and early morning trips are usually reserved for drifting live bait. Daytime fishing can be great trolling or bait fishing anchored on one of the area reefs or rock piles.

Fluke, Sea Bass & Porgy are usually caught drifting using baited rigs in deep water. The Westbrook area has some excellent bottom fishing around Long Sand Shoal and area wrecks. Porgy fishing in late summer is usually excellent and very fast action, which is great for kids.

Blackfishing in the fall heats up around the Westbrook Clinton rocky areas of Long Island Sound. These hard fighting fish are excellent table fare. This trip can also be combined with some Striper fishing.

Light Tackle Worming for Bass is done around the Norwalk Islands in a small aluminum boat. The weather has to be perfect and I can only accommodate 1 or 2 people. This is best done on weeknight evenings in the late spring or summer. We troll 10 to 14 pound light rods in 3 to 8 feet of water around the rocky shoreline of the Norwalk Islands. Most Striped Bass caught this way are 20 to 30 inches. In a typical trip it is not unusual to catch 30 or more bass.