The reason I posted is because I've seen the FV John Dempsey, from Port Jefferson I think, dragging west of middle Grounds light during the day and then head over to the Connecticut side in the evening or late at night. Over the last three years I've seen the vessel trolling at night off bouy 18, and Stratford PT on many nights. I do a lot of night time striper fishing in the spring/ summer/fall and during the month of June when the striper bite is hot they like to come over to the Connecticut side around 2 or 3 am. Then work back to middle Grounds by first light and then back to Port Jeff by mid morning. just last week when I was fishing middle grounds they came out early evening and headed to the Connecticut side around 5pm when I was headed in so they had to be dragging in the dark. They are usually out during the week not on the weekends. I hope someone can look into this because these guys have to be putting a huge dent in the fish population in the western sound.