Fishing

I will be spending considerable time around Long Island and would love to do some fishing while I am there. If you would be willing to show a person from the west how to catch fish back east please either reply to this post of send me a PM. Thanks


Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
-- Anonymous

Plenty of fishing all around Long Island, but it is different on the north shore from the south shore and from the west part of the island to the east part of the island.

Where will you be on the island.

Yes it's me from the Utah board. I spent most of the first 35 years of my life living in NY.

I will be around Melville, and I have no idea where that is located, but I should become very familiar with it.


Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
-- Anonymous

Kind of in the middle.

You will want to head mostly east and south to get away from more people than you are used to. Fire Island National Seashore can provide for Blues and Stripers near the inlets. Surf gear is used, but the rigs you have for shore fishing sturgeon will work.

There are a lot of piers on LI. your standard bass rigs will work on them for Mackeral, Pogies, Toutaug and other pan type fish. Rigs are available locally and shrimp and blood worms are preferred baits.
There are piers on Jones Beach, just south of Melville, Captree state park, a little farther east.

Thank you.


Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
-- Anonymous