BY HOOK & BY CROOK

Brooklyn inmates’ fishy smuggling scheme

They went on a fishing trip without ever leaving lockup.

Inmates at the Brooklyn Detention Complex (above) used crudely fashioned fishing poles to smuggle in cellphones, chargers, booze and other contraband from accomplices five stories below on busy Atlantic Avenue, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Law.

At least two prisoners at the Boerum Hill slammer repeatedly lowered lengths of string attached to poles through a broken window in the penitentiary’s day room to a bus stop at Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street, a Department of Investigation inquiry into the 2015 security breach found.

Down at street level, pals tied neatly packaged bundles of contraband to the line, then signaled back to the inmates with a flashlight when the bundles were ready to go, the 2017 report said.

The haul included nearly everything one could wish for to take the edge off a stint in “stir,” from cellphones to cash to alcohol and, possibly, drugs.

The jailbirds’ angling antics went on for at least a month from November into December 2015, but came undone when three of the smuggled cellphones — with messages detailing the plot — were found by guards.

The phones were found seemingly everywhere in the supposedly secure facility: on a mounted ceiling fan, behind a pipe in the ceiling and on top of a gate, the DOI report said.

A cellphone charger was found stashed by a fire exit.

That wasn’t all — 15 sticks were discovered resting on a ledge in front of a bank of windows, cluing investigators in to the improvised fishing perch.

While probers searched for surveillance footage of the angling in action outside the complex, they couldn’t find any cameras that captured it.

But if any doubt remained, the data on the phones made clear that the plot was no fish tale. The phones held incriminating text messages, as well as several photos of inmates with contraband.

Investigators also subpoenaed recordings of calls placed on jail phones that captured two inmates discussing the fishing plot with friends on the outside.

In one exchange, the person waiting at the bus stop said he was waiting for the “police to spin.”

“[It’s] coming out,” the inmate reported a short time later.

Another prisoner was recorded asking the same outside helper “to get two ounces of ‘green’ with $200,” an apparent marijuana buy, the report said. Another call mentioned cigarettes and K2, or synthetic weed, although it was unclear if the drugs made it inside.

The report was unclear on whether the inmates faced any additional punishments for the stunt, or if their outside accomplices faced charges.

The Brooklyn house of detention is one of the facilities the city plans to expand to house inmates when Rikers Island shuts down.

The Department of Correction said there will be no more fishing expeditions for contraband.

“The issues related to this incident were completely resolved, and we are confident that this could not happen today,” said spokesman Jason Kersten.