Mount Sinai Harbor & mouth
The flats, channel edges and rocks right out the dock — productive on tide changes for stripers and bluefish.
The captain. The boat. The Sound.
Twenty years of doing one thing well, in one place, on one boat.
Meet Captain Skippy
USCG-licensed. Local-born. Twenty years on this water.
Captain Skippy is a licensed 50-ton Master and OUPV (six-pack) charter captain, with over twenty years of fishing experience in the Central Long Island Sound. The credentials are the paperwork — the real value is the time on the water. He's run more trips out of Mount Sinai than he can count.
His charter operation is built around one belief: a small, private boat with a captain who actually knows the water beats every six-pack head-boat experience by a country mile. You won't share rail space with strangers. You won't be rushed off the boat. You'll fish where the fish actually are — because Skippy knows.
USCG 50-Ton Master CaptainHigher-tier credentialing for inland & near-coastal waters
USCG OUPV (Six-Pack) endorsementAuthorized to carry paying passengers
20+ seasons on the Central LI SoundMt. Sinai, Pt. Jeff, Smithtown Bay, Crane Neck, the Middle Grounds
Fully insured commercial charterCoverage on hull, liability, and passenger
The boat
Christina M II — a 26-foot Down East built for the Sound.
The Christina M II is a 1998 Hunter Scott Pilot Cove Down East. It's not the flashiest boat on the water — it's better than that. It's the right boat for what we do. The hull cuts through the Long Island Sound chop. The cockpit layout gives 4 anglers real fishing room. The cabin keeps you warm when the wind picks up. And the trolling motor lets us hold on tough drifts when conditions go sideways.
26-ft Hunter Scott Pilot Cove · 1998Classic Down East hull — handles the Sound's short, steep chop
Minnkota trolling motorQuiet hold over structure when wind & current fight
Modern electronicsSonar, GPS & chart plotter to dial in the structure
Rigged for 4 (5 case-by-case)Real fishing room in the stern. Not a head-boat rail.
Full USCG safety equipmentPFDs, EPIRB, VHF, flares, first aid — current inspection
Where we fish
The Central Long Island Sound, by heart.
Every captain says they know the water. Ours has the logbook. From Mt. Sinai we work the structure of the central Sound — close enough that you fish more, run less.
Port Jefferson grounds
Just east. Reefs, ferry-channel structure and underwater humps that hold sea bass and porgies all summer.
Smithtown Bay & Crane Neck
Sand flats, rip lines and structure that fish well on bluefish blitzes and the fall stripers run.
The Middle Grounds & CT side
When weather allows — deeper Sound humps that hold late-season blackfish and the larger summer stripers.
Come fish with someone who actually knows this water.
$150 deposit. Easy to book. Easier to remember.