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Fly fishermen Joe Rovinsky (above) and Dave Bachand have been fishing Watch Hill and the neighboring reefs, catching bass up to 31 inches on the surface. The stripers were nailing Clouser Minnows until 7:30 a.m. The next day, Rovinsky said, "We found some small, 20-inch bass on the flats at Napatree. It took some changes, but we took bass on a size #4 epoxy sand eel with 5x (5-pound) tippet in skinny water. Some fine action, with over three dozen stripers and bluefish."
"I have never seen as many bass as we're seeing this year," said Al Conti of Snug Harbor Marina. Thursday morning, he said, "I'm looking at bass swirling on the surface right now off my docks. They're everywhere -- Green Hill, Moonstone -- everywhere." To the west, Don Michaud of King Cove Outfitters and Jim Gray of Gray's Boatyard, said the reefs of Long Island Sound hold large bass, and Michaud said some of them appear to be newly arriving migrants from the south. On Watch Hill and Sugar reefs, bass have been taking surface plugs and tube-and-worm rigs, Gray said. Tubes are also extremely effective around Fishers Island, Michaud said.
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