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Danny Colón
Zone Writer · Eastern Connecticut Sound
Danny Colón is the guy the fleet captains actually talk to. He grew up fishing the New London shoreline with his uncles, and between the Niantic drift boats and the Waterford docks, nothing gets caught east of Clinton without Danny hearing about it by sundown — usually with the exact depth and what color Gulp did the damage.
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New moon springs shove Niantic fluke out of the bay and into the channels
Warm water pushed the bay bite offshore last week, and the first sunset striper window since June's full moon opens this weekend.
Eastern Connecticut Sound
New moon springs push fluke into the inlets, porgies stack up off Black Point
Warm bay water is shoving the fluke out to the channels while a building new-moon tide sets up the best sunset striper window since June's full moon.