Definitely better to drive to New london and do the orient point , shelter Island , Hamptons ferry route. I haven't done it in years but did it about 20 times back in the early 80's. It must be fairly expensive for the ferries now but it beats all the driving going towarsd the city and back out.

I used to love fishing Montauk but stayed away from under the light. I fished turtle Cove to the light then past the light all the way out to shagwong point and beyond.

Rigged eels were better than anything in November , even better than live IMO

Is the shagwong cafe still there? That place had real character and characters! :)

Yup, the Shagwong is still there :). As far as taking the ferries, it's not worth it if you have GPS. It's a little over an hour's drive when you get off the Orient ferry so by the time you wait for the 2 extra ferries ;).
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I was once sitting at the bar at the shagwong and the guy next to me was drinking draft beers and as many do at their local bar , the guy drinking the drafts just left his change on the counter so the bartender could just work off that money instead of having to reach into his pocket each time.

WEll he passed out cold , head down on the bar. The bartender came over , took his glass and filled it up , took the right amount of money and put the glass on the bar right infront of the passed out guys head.

I looked at the bartender with I guess a strage look because without me saying anything he told me " this happens every night. He'll wake up in a while and just start drinking the beer in front of him and not even know he had passed out for a while". :)

That incident and the big Blue Marlin head sticking out of the wall made the Shagwong Cafe a must visit place for me when I went to Montauk. It was my kind of place. :)

Saying on a tee shirt now available at some shops:
"Montauk, a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem" :D.
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So..... Did you crush them?????

There were pockets of schoolie bass and blues. Nothing large was taken when I was there. Lots of bait off shore but the wind did not cooperarte. Jigs were working the best. I caught most of the fish with a 1 once bullet head with a purple bass assasin. I spent a lot of time working the top with big plugs but could not get anything to hit. Caught all the fish on jigs.

You know of course it turned on a bit as of yesterday. Lots of sand eels moved close to the beach. Still mostly blues, but of the bigger variety. Today was mostly mid sized blues to 8 lbs. The few bass that came up were all over 20 lbs. though. I kept fishing a big metal lip to try to cull a bass, but just kept getting bluefish after bluefish :mad:. They loved my Bigfish Prey.

Side note : Larry, I'll need a new Ice Blue Prey :D.
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