Mike Rizzo
Mike Rizzo lives for the screaming current at The Race and Plum Gut. He's the writer who'll fish a twelve-hour tide on no sleep, then drive to the next inlet for the night bite — and he knows exactly which eddies stack the trophy bass when the water rips through at five knots.
Water covered
Port Jefferson to Orient Point / New London, including The Race and Plum Gut
Reporting lens
Tide Rip
Local water
Recent Reports
12 TOTALNew moon springs stack the Race and Plum Gut for the first real evening bass window since June
Fluke have abandoned the hot bays for inlet current, bass are stacking eddies at last light, and the weakfish still haven't shown up despite water warm enough to make them.
New-moon springs load up The Race as bass and blues stack the rip
Bigger water through Plum Gut and The Race is turning on the current-lane bite, while fluke push out of the bays and into the inlets on the outgoing.
Race and Plum Gut load up on big migratory bass as bluefish crash the plug bite
Fog delays the morning run east, but the last two hours of the flood at the Race are turning into the best window of the week.
Plum Gut bass bite peaks as butterfish push through the rips
Big migratory bass stacked in the current lanes, but bluefish are wrecking expensive lures.
Race rips fire as big bass crash butterfish schools in 60-foot water
Plum Gut producing slot fish on three-ways while topwater action explodes at first light in the eastern rips.
Big bass crash Plum Gut as butterfish fuel feeding frenzy
Overslot stripers hammer swim shads and spoons while blues wreck everything else.
Plum Gut bass crash butterfish schools as 68-degree water triggers feeding frenzy
Trophy stripers stack in the rips while swim shads outproduce bucktails on big fish.
Swim shads crush bucktails as big bass stack in The Race and Plum Gut
Seven-inch Tsunami shads producing multiple overslot stripers while traditional bucktails struggle to match size.
Race rips fire as 67-degree water stacks bass on the flood
Big blues crash the party while blackfish bite heats up at Fishers drops.
Race rips fire as 68-degree water stacks bass on the flood
Trophy stripers crash bucktails in the current while Plum Gut delivers slot fish on the drift.
Race rips fire as 68-degree water stacks bass on the flood
Big blues crash the party while blackfish wake up on Fishers drops.
Race and Plum Gut bass dialed in on bucktail drifts as offshore reference data thins
With 44025 offline and 44097 intermittent, the eastern Sound bite is being read off tide stage and structure rather than fresh SST telemetry.