Fishing near Montauk in Suffolk County, NY

3.58 Rating based on 24 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Scup (Porgy), Blackfish, Striped Bass, Bluefish, Black Sea Bass, Summer Flounder (Fluke)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 24
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 58
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Montauk Fishing Photos

Montauk Surf fishing near Montauk

Montauk Surf fishing

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Montauk fishing photo 1

dont even know
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one of the many blitzes near Montauk

one of the many blitzes

when the blitz is on people get crazy
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all lined up near Montauk

all lined up

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light house point near Montauk

light house point

one of the only land marks out there
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beautiful place  near Montauk

beautiful place

dont let looks decive you this is the crazyist place on the map
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Top Fishing Spots near Montauk

Napeague Bay
Napeague Bay

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Acabonack Harbor
Acabonack Harbor

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Block Island Sound
Block Island Sound

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 929

The Race
The Race

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 873

The Race - Little Gull Island
The Race - Little Gull Island

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1060

Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay

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Montauk Area Fish Species

Recent Montauk Fishing Reports

Fishing for Porgy off Montauk with my son Fishing Report Jun 21, 2016

Fishing for Porgy off Montauk with my son

Montauck -

Caught the runner up in the pool.
Landed over 60 fish, took home 39 nice porgys
Caught mostly porgy with some sea bass & small blues mixed ...

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No Bones just blues 8-19-2009 Fishing Report Aug 19, 2009

No Bones just blues 8-19-2009

Gardiners Island Ny -

With a recent report of Bonito in the waters around Gardiners Island, left the dock at 1st light :30 this morning. Anticipation was high for the first...

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operation montauk Fishing Report Jul 20, 2009

operation montauk

montauk, NY -

taking 3 ferrys to the tip of long island in search of a 50 lb striper from the surf...

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Striped Bass on the Race Fishing Report Jun 08, 2011

Striped Bass on the Race

The Race -

15 Pound Bass from the race on a storm shad three way rigged...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Saturday morning at Little Gull Fishing Report Jun 13, 2009

Saturday morning at Little Gull

Little Gull Island NY -

Headed out this morning just before 1st light. After checking a favorite rockpile outside Niantic Bay, motored due south to Little Gull. Af few birds ...

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L:ittle Gull & Great Gull 8-25-2009 Fishing Report Aug 26, 2009

L:ittle Gull & Great Gull 8-25-2009

Little Gull & Great Gull Islands NY -

Bluefish and stripers feeding on nickle sized butterfish and peanut bunker...

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Baits and Tackle used near Montauk

Check Prices

  • t n w and squid rig
  • Chartreuse Blonde
  • Squid
  • sea robin
  • spearing squid strip
  • live sand worms
  • eel
  • live worms
  • live bait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Clams
  • eel, frozen squid
  • eel/1 oz weight
  • deadly dick
  • live eals
  • eel
  • Live lined eels, no weight
  • Sandworms and Squid

Tube Check Prices

  • tube and worm (sand worm)
  • Only hitting the tube and worm. Fish on every 50-100 yard run.

Minnow Check Prices

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • i was using my silver and black BPS popper, until i lost it in a tree, another lure lost to the pond kings

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

  • 4 oz
  • Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
  • put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom
  • frozen squid
  • sabikis

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • spearing/sqid
  • small spinners and very small rapala's

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • jigs
  • sqid
  • Hammered Jig
  • squid
  • gulp
  • Pink Spro bucktail jigs with squid/spearing
  • gulp shrimp
  • on the teaser
  • skate
  • braid jig shiners squid strips

Worm Check Prices

  • i throw everything in here. the edges are very shallow so summer fishing is mostly with worms, but a crank will do in some of the open water.
  • BPS stick-o-worm 5 inch in watermelon red flake.
  • same bps worm
  • red tube sandworm
  • watermelon gold flake
  • used both watermelon and green pumpkin
  • using the sinko melon with gold flake

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
    a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
  • i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick
  • deadly dick,hopkins

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper
  • Fly Fishing - Rootbeer estaz and white marabou tied on a 1/0 hook wooly bugger style. Stripers and blues were feeding on nickle sized butterfish and peanut bunker
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
  • Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
  • Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny
  • Flatwing Deceiver
  • Moby Worm
  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Tube & Worm

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo zurry

Jigs Check Prices

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • my regular watermelon red flake

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail

Herring Check Prices

  • Fresh Chunked Herring

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Green crabs cut in half
  • Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
    Gamakatsu Octopus hook

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Silver Diamond Jigs
  • D DICK

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • slow and steady retrieve
  • BLUE/WHITE POPPER

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • Green bucktail with red pork rind on 3way
  • Bucktails tipped with Squid/spearing. Brian caught the 9lber on bait rod with large silverside
  • Bucktail tipped with squid/spearing

Other Check Prices

  • buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
  • Eels
    Squid
  • crabs
  • greenies
  • blue crab on chicken
  • chicken
  • blue crab!
  • Live eel

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