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Tony "Gold Coast" Bellafiore
Zone Writer · Western Connecticut Sound
Tony Bellafiore has fished the Gold Coast for four decades. He treats the Western Sound's reef system like a chessboard — Penfield on the ebb, the Norwalk Islands on the flood — and he's never met a rockpile he couldn't pull a blackfish off of.
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Greenwich to Bridgeport — Norwalk Islands, Sheffield Island, Cockenoe Reef, Greenwich Point, Penfield Reef
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New-moon springs stack the reefs — sunset flood window fires from Greenwich to the Cows
Bigger tides and warm bay water are pushing fluke to the channels and bass onto the rockpiles right at last light — but you've got to beat the weekend traffic to get it.
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New-moon springs reopen the sunset striper window off Cockenoe and Penfield
Warm harbor water is shoving fluke out to reef structure while bass stack for the Friday-through-Monday flood.