Bunker schools fuel blitzes from stripers and bluefish, schools of albies and bonito pop up sporadically, and bottom fishing brings plenty of jumbo scup and sea bass.

Mahi linger beneath weed patches near the tuna grounds, stripers and blues hit plugs and jigs in the bay, and tautog fishing picks up steam.

Albies arrive in the Long Island Sound, trophy stripers hit live baits around local reefs, and sea bass, fluke and porgies keep bottom fishermen busy.

Yellowfin tuna take jigs and poppers south of Block, mahi push into inshore waters, and sea bass and tautog bite on bottom when albies are uncooperative.

Big bass are continuing to get more active in their usual late-summer haunts as giant schools of small bait continue to grow.

Bass, blues, albacore and bonito can be found blitzing on the plethora of small bait in the area.

Albies arrive in Rhody, bluefish and striped bass eat topwater plugs around sunrise, and tautog fishing improves while the fluke bite bundles.

Gator blues hit everything from diamond jigs to topwater plugs, scup dominate the bottom fishing scene, and stripers take bunker chunks and live eels around New London.

Gator blues gorge on peanut bunker throughout the Sound, scup and sea bass fishing remains fantastic, and big bass take bunker chunks in deep water at night.

A memorable fluke season continues and cow stripers are caught around Block Island, meanwhile, bluefin and yellowfin take topwaters and jigs south of Block.