Fishing near Greenport West in Suffolk County, NY

3.27 Rating based on 45 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Blackfish, Scup (Porgy), Striped Bass, Black Sea Bass, Other (Saltwater), Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 28
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 81
  •  
  • Discuss Greenport West area fishing in our New York Fishing Forum

Greenport West Fishing Photos

shelter island north near Greenport West

shelter island north

Added by: tsavfish
View Full Size
ferry shelter island south near Greenport West

ferry shelter island south

runs every 15 min
Added by: tsavfish
View Full Size
oriant point ferry near Greenport West

oriant point ferry

Added by: tsavfish
View Full Size
Plum Island Gut Fishing 2010 near Greenport West

Plum Island Gut Fishing 2010

Added by: davetroy
View Full Size
Chloe's Blue near Greenport West

Chloe's Blue

Added by: davetroy
View Full Size
Bluefish caught at Plum Gut near Greenport West

Bluefish caught at Plum Gut

Labor Day Weekend Bluefish
Added by: davetroy
View Full Size

Top Fishing Spots near Greenport West

Shelter Island Sound
Shelter Island Sound

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 204

Little Peconic Bay
Little Peconic Bay

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 404

Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 581

Plum Island Gut
Plum Island Gut

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 2548

Connecticut River
Connecticut River

Avg. Rating: 4.154
# Reviews: 13
Views: 22854

Great Peconic Bay
Great Peconic Bay

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 267

Greenport West Area Fish Species

Recent Greenport West Fishing Reports

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...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1 Views:
Review Report
Created by: rbwizard
Map It
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...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1 Views:
Review Report
Created by: davetroy
Map It
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...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1 Views:
Review Report
Created by: peter632
Map It
duckisland fishing Fishing Report May 29, 2007

duckisland fishing

there are fluke skate dogfish blues stripers conner ...

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1 Views:
Review Report
Created by: bryonheath
Map It
Fenwick Stripers Fishing Report Jul 10, 2012

Fenwick Stripers

Fenwick -

This was a barely planned trip that a friend and I did after work one day and it must of been Payday.

Around 10:30pm we fished off the Fenwic...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1 Views:
Review Report
Created by: protacanthopterix
Map It
Conn. River Stripers Fishing Report Jun 01, 2012

Conn. River Stripers

Conn. River Conn. -

Hit the Conn. River at dusk to fish for stripers with my good friend Todd. It was slow at 1st with only a cojuple shorts and some decient bluefish in ...

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 4 Views:
Review Report
Created by: stratos1966
Map It

Baits and Tackle used near Greenport West

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live eals
  • eel
  • Sandworms and Squid
  • Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
  • eel, frozen squid

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • All were caught on a Brush Hog plastic.

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Frog Bait Check Prices

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
  • 4 oz
  • put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • white x-rap

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Spin-flies with a brown body and gold spinner worked best. Probably a caddis-fly or brown trout paint pattern. 1/16 or 1/8 oz.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • jigs
  • strips
  • braid jig shiners squid strips
  • skate
  • gulp
  • squid
  • sqid
  • Hammered Jig

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
  • green 6in worm on a knuckle head jig
  • Watermelon senco,5"
  • using the sinko melon with gold flake
  • 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.

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

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
  • Flatwing Deceiver
  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
  • 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
  • Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0

Craw Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • my regular watermelon red flake

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact
  • Pearl Suggos!

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail

Herring Check Prices

  • Chunks of Atlantic menhaden
  • Fresh Chunked Herring

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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
  • i was using a little silver spoon 1/8 by little cleo, and was doing ok when not getting into a tree. There is not much room to cast, and any error one way or another and your in the brush.

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • 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

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

  • 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
  • frozen spearing
  • blue crab on chicken
  • blue crab!

Stay Updated

Sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay updated on Greenport West fishing and other New York fishing. You'll also receive community updates, invites to try new features and promotions from our partners.

NY Fish Finder

Social Links