Re: Porgies In May
The last few years porgy fishing during the summer here in NJ has been pretty good. We tend to catch the 9-12" pretty consistently through October with some bigger ones mixed in. Last year we saw our biggest porgies in October when seabass reopened fishing wrecks in 80-120' - we had several porgies over 4#.
I also fished LI Sound twice last year with friends, once in May out of the City Island area and the other time in late August just before Labor Day out of Mystic, CT. The porgy fishing on the LI side in May is pretty good - the fish are everywhere but they seem to be not as concentrated as they get here. We can literally anchor the boat up on readings here in NJ and pound on them; there it's very different as you have to find some, drop chum, and get them going. The size on the LI side was pretty similar to what we see in NJ, but there are some true slab porgies mixed in. The trip to Mystic was a 2 drop trip, one of those was a few miles N of Montauk in the sound and we caught monster seabass with some average porgies on one spot, then on the other, we fished the Race up on the CT side, and had more jumbo seabass with more 11-14" porgies caught.
My point is this: If you want porgies early, say before July, I'd fish LI sound or Peconic bay. Those fish are there basically from May till the end of the summer. Our fishery gets going here just after July 4th, and it's almost just as good, so if you want to wait, you should. Best of luck!
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