Fishing near Peconic in Suffolk County, NY

3.57 Rating based on 26 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Striped Bass, Scup (Porgy), Bluefish, Other (Saltwater), Black Sea Bass, Sunfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 21
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 48
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ferry shelter island south near Peconic

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shelter island north near Peconic

shelter island north

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oriant point ferry near Peconic

oriant point ferry

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Bluefish at Duck Island near Peconic

Bluefish at Duck Island

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Top Fishing Spots near Peconic

Little Peconic Bay
Little Peconic Bay

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Shelter Island Sound
Shelter Island Sound

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Great Peconic Bay
Great Peconic Bay

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Shinnecock Bay
Shinnecock Bay

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Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay

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Plum Island Gut
Plum Island Gut

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Peconic Area Fish Species

Recent Peconic Fishing Reports

Ponquogue Bridge Fishing Report Apr 06, 2013

Ponquogue Bridge

Ponquogue Bridge, -

I caught 2 fluke, 2 snapper, and a black sea bass. I was using frozen spearing on a octopus hook with a 3 ounce sinker. I was fishing at the start of ...

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duckisland fishing Fishing Report May 29, 2007

duckisland fishing

there are fluke skate dogfish blues stripers conner ...

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Bluefish at Duck Island Fishing Report Aug 23, 2010

Bluefish at Duck Island

Duck Island, Westbrook -

Went out on a beautiful evening on the Sound out of Westbrook. Went out to the red can south of Duck Island. The birds were hitting the water and th...

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clinton Fishing Report May 19, 2008

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Clinton Harber -

striper fishing and only caught 1 black fish 23 in. Nice ....

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T-Man Charter July 2, 2007 Fishing Report Jul 23, 2007

T-Man Charter July 2, 2007

My boys and I went with Capt. Pat to learn the fine points of the Tube & Worm. Stripers Beware! We caught 7 in less than an hour, 4 keepers includ...

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Plum Gut Fishing Report Sep 05, 2010

Plum Gut

Plum Island Gut -

Fished Plum Island Gut for Blues and Stripers with Chloe over the Sunday of Labor Day weekend 2010. Unfortunately, Hurricane Earl had hit (weakly) on...

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Baits and Tackle used near Peconic

Check Prices

  • soft shad killers on a jig-head. black/silver color pattern.
  • Kastmaster
  • bottom fishing with sand worms
  • using a small keitech spider 2"
  • spearing squid strip
  • bottom fishin with sand warms 34 feet of water
  • live sand worms
  • live worms
  • sea robin
  • eel

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live eals
  • Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
  • eel
  • Sandworms and Squid

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • black/silver shad killers
  • i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick,hopkins

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Tube & Worm

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny
  • Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
  • Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0
  • Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper
  • Flatwing Deceiver
  • 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
  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM

Craw Check Prices

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Bass Jig Check Prices

  • my regular watermelon red flake

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail

Herring Check Prices

  • Chunks of Atlantic menhaden
  • Fresh Chunked Herring

Squid Check Prices

  • Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
  • sabikis
  • frozen squid

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • white x-rap

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Silver Diamond Jigs

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • jigs
  • strips
  • braid jig shiners squid strips
  • skate
  • gulp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • BLUE/WHITE POPPER

Worm Check Prices

  • Sand worms
  • Sandworms worked best, but squid slivers did OK
  • used both watermelon and green pumpkin
  • watermelon gold flake
  • deep green senco rig with red fleck, silver pop-par was used to catch a two pounder

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Toped with spike or gulp for sunnies. Or a shiner and little nipper for crappie.
  • Spikes with gulp maggots

Other Check Prices

  • frozen spearing
  • chunk bait clams or fish bluefis rigs and 2 to 3 oz weight
  • Eels and squid
  • any thing works chunkbait, live bait, sand worms, squid strips , lures
  • chicken
  • big crab!
  • blue crab
  • crabs

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