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Lena Marchetti
Zone Writer · Central Connecticut Sound
Lena Marchetti grew up jigging porgies off the New Haven breakwalls and never stopped. She knows the Central Sound's bottom structure cold — which side of Falkner holds sea bass on the drift, and exactly when the Charles Island bar turns on.
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New moon springs push porgies onto the rockpiles, stripers reset at Charles Island sunset flood
Bigger water this week means better current at the structure — and a fresh sunset window for bass on the bar.
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New moon springs load up the PM flood — Charles Island stripers, rockpile porgies holding steady
Tautog season reopened the breakwalls just as building spring tides set up the best sunset striper window since June's full moon.