Fishing near Orient in Suffolk County, NY

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  • Most Caught Species: Scup (Porgy), Striped Bass, Blackfish, Bluefish, Other (Saltwater), Black Sea Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 38
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 105
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Orient Fishing Photos

oriant point ferry near Orient

oriant point ferry

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Plum Island Gut Fishing 2010 near Orient

Plum Island Gut Fishing 2010

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Chloe's Blue near Orient

Chloe's Blue

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Bluefish caught at Plum Gut near Orient

Bluefish caught at Plum Gut

Labor Day Weekend Bluefish
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Chloe at Plum Island Gut near Orient

Chloe at Plum Island Gut

Plum Island Gut September 2010
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Striped Bass near Orient

Striped Bass

Between the rocks and the Orient Point lighthouse rock pile. Slack tide, 7/2/07
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Top Fishing Spots near Orient

Plum Island Gut
Plum Island Gut

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Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay

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Shelter Island Sound
Shelter Island Sound

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Connecticut River
Connecticut River

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Acabonack Harbor
Acabonack Harbor

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

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Orient Area Fish Species

Recent Orient 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...

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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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Gardiners Island NY Fishing Report Jul 02, 2009

Gardiners Island NY

Garniers Island NY -

Fly Rodding the Flats for stripers using epoxy sand eel imitations...

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Plum Island Fishing Report Jun 30, 2009

Plum Island

Plum Island NY -

Plum Island and the Sluiceway...

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Conn. River Stripers Fishing Report Jun 01, 2012

Conn. River Stripers

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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 ...

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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...

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Baits and Tackle used near Orient

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live eals
  • eel
  • Sandworms and Squid
  • eel, frozen squid
  • Meelworms and yellow powerbait nuggets
  • Clams
  • eel/1 oz weight
  • deadly dick

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
  • Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper

Jerk Bait Check Prices

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait 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.
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
  • spearing/sqid
  • small spinners and very small rapala's

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • jigs
  • strips
  • skate
  • braid jig shiners squid strips
  • gulp
  • squid
  • sqid
  • Hammered Jig
  • on the teaser
  • gulp shrimp

Worm Check Prices

  • used both watermelon and green pumpkin
  • watermelon gold flake
  • Sand worms
  • deep green senco rig with red fleck, silver pop-par was used to catch a two pounder
  • 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.
  • same bps worm
  • green 6in worm on a knuckle head jig

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
  • deadly dick

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Tube & Worm
  • White Sassy shad

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo zurry

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • tried out my new xps hard jerkbait. It swims good to. Caught the smaller bass on the jerk action and the larger on a steady retrieve.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • my regular watermelon red flake
  • little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

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

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • purple and white fly to immitate bait fish

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail

Herring Check Prices

  • Chunks of Atlantic menhaden
  • Fresh Chunked Herring

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • fish under lights and throw somethin shinny about 3 feet down

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.
  • D DICK

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

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

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