Fishing near Wainscott in Suffolk County, NY

4.72 Rating based on 15 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Scup (Porgy), Black Sea Bass, Bluefish, Striped Bass, Summer Flounder (Fluke), Blackfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 12
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 38
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ferry shelter island south near Wainscott

ferry shelter island south

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shelter island north near Wainscott

shelter island north

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No Bones Just Blues near Wainscott

No Bones Just Blues

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oriant point ferry near Wainscott

oriant point ferry

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Plum Island Gut Fishing 2010 near Wainscott

Plum Island Gut Fishing 2010

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Chloe's Blue near Wainscott

Chloe's Blue

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Top Fishing Spots near Wainscott

Shelter Island Sound
Shelter Island Sound

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Acabonack Harbor
Acabonack Harbor

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Little Peconic Bay
Little Peconic Bay

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Gardiners Bay
Gardiners Bay

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Napeague Bay
Napeague Bay

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Great Peconic Bay
Great Peconic Bay

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Wainscott Area Fish Species

Recent Wainscott Fishing Reports

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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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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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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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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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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Baits and Tackle used near Wainscott

Check Prices

  • spearing squid strip
  • Kastmaster
  • soft shad killers on a jig-head. black/silver color pattern.
  • live sand worms
  • sea robin
  • live worms
  • eel
  • Squid

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Clams
  • live eals
  • eel, frozen squid
  • eel

Tube Check Prices

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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick,hopkins

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper
  • 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
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
  • Flies- Platinum Blonde 1/0, Gray white Flat wing Deceiver2/0 chartruese Closar 1/0

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Tube & Worm

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail

Herring Check Prices

  • Chunks of Atlantic menhaden

Squid Check Prices

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

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Silver Diamond Jigs

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

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

Worm Check Prices

  • Sand worms

Other Check Prices

  • frozen spearing
  • buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
  • 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
  • crabs

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