Frank "The Sound Pro" Marinaro
Frank Marinaro has fished the Western Sound for thirty years — from the Throgs Neck pilings to Oyster Bay — and remembers every rockpile, rip line, and channel edge. He'll tell you why Execution Rocks holds bass on the outgoing tide and exactly when the bunker schools stack up off Matinecock Point in June.
Water covered
Throgs Neck to Oyster Bay, including Little Neck Bay, Manhasset Bay, Hempstead Harbor
Reporting lens
Old Salt
Local water
Recent Reports
14 TOTALNew moon springs light up the Kings Point flood as sunset stripers return
The first PM window since June's full moon is back, and the bass are using it to feed hard on the last of the light.
New moon springs reopen the sunset flood bite off Kings Point
Warm bay water is pushing fluke to the channel edges while bass wait on the rock piles for the tide to turn — here's where to be this weekend.
Big bass still hunting the Execution Rocks ledge as the Sound settles into summer patterns
The bunker are thick off Matinecock, the bluefish are chopping mid-Sound, and the stripers want moving water and something big trolled past their nose.
Sound bass stack on Execution ledge as big tides flush bait through the rips
Forty-inch stripers hit Mojos on the outgoing at the rocks while fluke fishing stays spotty in the shallows.
Execution Rocks trollers nail 50-pound class bass as Sound water hits prime temps
Big Mojos over the ledges producing oversized stripers on moving water.
Gator blues crash Western Sound as bass push deep in 70-degree water
Big bluefish blitzing bunker while stripers retreat to structure in warming Sound
Gator blues crash the Sound as bass push deep on 70-degree water
Big bluefish blitzing bait while stripers retreat to structure in warming Western Sound.
50-pound bass crash Western Sound as water hits prime feeding temps
Execution Rocks trollers score oversized stripers while mackerel schools trigger feeding frenzies.
Sound bass fire on bunker schools as 68-degree water stacks bait from Throgs to Oyster Bay
Outgoing tides concentrate peanut bunker in the channel mouths while fluke bite picks up on the drift.
Bass crash the Oyster Bay bunker schools as Sound water hits prime feeding temps
Slot fish stacked from Lloyd's Neck to Matinecock Point on the flood tide.
Fluke bite fires in Oyster Bay as bass stack on the Stepping Stones
Western Sound finally waking up with keeper flatfish and slot stripers on the feed.
Bass blitz fires the western Sound as bunker schools stack thick off Matinecock
Slot fish crushing live peanuts on the flood tide while fluke fishing stays tough in the shallows.