NEW YORK, LONG ISLAND & CONNECTICUT FISHING MAP
Fishing Hot Spots
From the Verrazzano Narrows and Breezy Point out along Long Island's South Shore inlets to Shinnecock and Montauk Point, around Plum Gut and the Race, and back through Long Island Sound to the Connecticut shore. Tap any star or dot to see what it is and what to fish there.
📅 New York Fishing Calendar — best months, closed seasons, bait & rigs →
📅 Connecticut Fishing Calendar — best months, closed seasons, bait & rigs →
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Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.
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Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:
Fishing Hot Spots by area
Inlets, rips, rocks, reefs, piers and banks. Tap one to fly to it on the map.
Stripers at Montauk, the Race and Plum Gut, fluke on the South Shore and porgies in the Sound
New York and Connecticut waters are striped bass country. Spring brings big bass into the Narrows and Raritan Bay on the bunker schools, and in the fall the bass and bluefish blitz down the South Shore beaches and around Montauk Point, the surf-fishing capital of the East Coast. The rips at Plum Gut and the Race, where Long Island Sound drains into the ocean, are some of the strongest current on the coast and hold bass, bluefish, big blackfish and fall false albacore.
All summer the inlets from Rockaway to Jones, Fire Island, Moriches and Shinnecock are full of fluke, and the reefs, banks and rocks hold black sea bass, porgy and blackfish (tautog). Long Island Sound adds porgy, fluke, blackfish and weakfish along both the Long Island and Connecticut shores.
New York needs a free Recreational Marine Fishing Registry and Connecticut a marine fishing license. Striped bass, fluke, black sea bass, porgy and blackfish have seasons and slot or size limits that change often. Check NYS DEC and Connecticut DEEP rules before you go.
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Map sources & checks
- Coverage
- New York, Long Island & Connecticut. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.
- Map data
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) — retrieved October 7, 2026
- World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN), Protected Planet — retrieved October 7, 2026 (license: Protected Planet terms)
- Hot spots
- 56 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): OpenStreetMap mapped feature (34), Rutgers / state artificial reef site boundaries (16), NJ DEP “Prime Fishing Grounds of New Jersey” (5), point on an OpenStreetMap river or lake line (general location) (1).
- Protected areas
- 55 protected areas from the official list above, drawn in dashed red. Fishing rules inside them are set by the managing agency; check with them before you fish.
- Chart layers (Charts button)
- GEBCO ocean depth and OpenSeaMap buoys, lights and markers, plus official NOAA nautical charts in U.S. waters. GEBCO and OpenSeaMap are useful references, not official navigation charts.
- Weather & tides
- See Weather & Tides for this area: NOAA/NWS forecasts, NOAA buoys and NOAA Tides & Currents, with Open-Meteo models where NOAA has no station.
- Dates
- This page last updated October 15, 2026. Each dataset keeps its own retrieval date, shown above.
⚠️ Planning reference only, not for navigation. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts, and proper safety gear before heading out.
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