Wednesday's wild winds and relentless rain kept boats at the dock and, hopefully, anglers under shelter. With waters still riled up Thursday, the few boats that did venture out weren't having the productive results they had been enjoying, especially during last Sunday's ideal weather.
But this cold snap and hospitable weekend forecast should bring positive conditions.
Some of that good news included Point Lookout's Capt. Al, whose top two Monday pool winners were Man Su Kim from Flushing with an 8-pound, 10-ounce blackfish and Xiao Li Murphy of Copiague, L.I., with a 6-3/4-pound cod. Capt. Tom Weiss said they were fishing at 100 feet.
Tony Vigil certainly earned an heroic angler title on the Tuesday trip of Sheepshead Bay's Capt. Dave II. That angler from Queens brought up a 9-1/2-pound blackfish from about 35 feet off Sea Bright, N.J., kept it alive until it had been proven to be the pool winner and then released his weighty one unharmed.
Also on Tuesday, anglers on an offshore trip of another Point Lookout boat, the Super Hawk, returned with a good sampling: sea bass up to seven pounds, cod to 25 and pollock to 36. That pool winning 36-pounder was caught by Derrick, a first-time-fishing visitor from Poland. Early Saturday, the Hawk plans to head out again some 60 to 80 miles to scout those same fertile depths of 200 to 220 feet.
Over in Long Island Sound, the Island Current IV will be making its final local trip for blackfish on Sunday. That's the day Connecticut's blackfish season shuts down (in N.Y. and N.J. it continues into December), thereby spoiling the fun for Capt. James Whitten and his favorite blackfishing shoreline.
However, City Island's Island Current III will continue her 5 a.m. weekend ocean blackfishing departures to the Sandy Hook area off the north Jersey coast until Dec. 20.
Meanwhile, Long Island's hunting season is upon on us. Hunting is permitted in specified areas in four L.I. state parks. At Montauk Point, Hither Hills and Hither Woods, small game and waterfowl seasons opened two days ago and continue to Feb. 28. At Napeague State Park, those seasons have been underway since Sept.1 and extend to March 31.
Also, New York's southern zone deer season and southeastern zone bear season opened Nov. 20 and will close at sunset on Dec. 12. That is followed by special late-bow hunting and muzzle loading Dec. 13 to Dec. 21.
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