10/10/11

Drifting around in a boat, drinking a beer or two and catching a fish or two sounds relaxing, right? Well, it
ain’t happening here in Montauk, and if it what you like, don’t come to Montauk on a Columbus Day weekend
around the full moon. It was a zoo out here. Saturday night I was out tagging bass (commercial fishing) and a
couple of charter boats were on the radio talking about the days fishing. They couldn’t decide if there were 250
or 300 boats around the Point. Half of the boats were drifting eels trying to catch that 50 pounder and the other
half were flyguys trying to get a cast into the schools of falsies. And if you were driving a boat, you had to keep
your wits about you to keep from hitting another boat or getting hit. But despite the madhouse the fishing is
holding up.
Montauk Marine Basin held their Last Hurrah over the past week and luckily the weather cooperated for the
last couple of days, because no one fished the first half of the tournament. The results are as follows;
OVERALL WINNER MOST POINTS BELLA DONNA DAVID OHALLORAN
LARGEST FISH OVERALL 96.2 lbs FREEDOM STEVE DEMARCO
LARGEST YELOW FIN 96.2 lbs FREEDOM STEVE DEMARCO
LARGEST ALBACORE 57.4 lbs SAHRA B CHARLES ENTERMAN
LARGEST MAKO 70 lbs BELLA DONNA DAVID OHALLORAN
LARGEST MAHI MAHI 24.2 lbs BELLA DONNA DAVID OHALLORAN
LARGEST 3 YELLOW FIN 238 total lbs FREEDOM STEVE DEMARCO

Star Island held their annual one day striped bass tournament on Sunday. The results of that contest are:
1st place bass - CAPRICE - Todd Fontana - 46.6 lbs
2nd place bass - MAKO 23 - Rick Gulia - 43 lbs
3rd place bass - ELIZABETH - Ken Howard - 42.4 lbs
1st place bluefish - MAKO 23 - Rick Gulia - 13.3 lbs

In last week’s report I didn’t have the results from Paulies Tackle Shop tournament. Here they are
Bass:
1st place: John Bruno35.92
2nd place: Henry Monteagndo 21.72
3rd place: Ray Sherry 20.92

Blues
1st place: Jeff Krist, 14.42 lbs
2nd place: Mark Foschi, 12.78 lbs
3rd place: German Caceres, 11.90
The owner of the boat that I run all summer has gone south so I won’t be doing much fishing for the rest of
the season (except for tagging bass). But he is putting the boat up for sale. It’s a 33’ L&H center console with
twin 3116 Cats. If you are interested, you can check it out at www.montauksportfishing.com/piper.html
I’ll be spending more time promoting the winter fishing in Central America. If that interests you, check it
out at www.tropicalfishing.com.
For more info about fishing in Montauk, check out www.montauksportfishing.com and if you would like to
receive these reports directly, drop me a line at captaingene@montauksportfishing.com