Nearly the entire northeast has a shot at catching keeper bass up to 30 pounds this week. Here are a few hot spots that have been producing over the last week:
1) Big stripers continue to shadow the bunker schools off Ocean and Monmouth counties.
2) Western Long Island Sound has been giving up 30- and 40-pound bass (and big bluefish) around bunker schools off New Haven to Fairfield.
3) Several large stripers have been caught from the surf in Montauk, and schools of big bass are beginning to show up in the rips off Montauk Point.
4) Upper Narragansett Bay has good-sized stripers shadowing bunker schools.
5) Martha’s Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands have been producing trophy-sized bass to 40 pounds for surfcasters and boaters.
6) Provincetown has a big school of stripers to 30 pounds chasing sand eels and sea herring.
7) The outer Harbor Islands and Salem Sound finally have 20- and 30-pound bass on live mackerel.
is it me or have the stripers avoided the canal this year … same time last year produced 20 keepers by now .. see youtube channel .. 28orbetter
what is your youtube channel?
I’m hearing and experiencing the same thing ,NO BASS in the canal . It’s all about the bait and it’s very limited . That goes for all of it.macs,sand eels , and so on . But I’m not giving up I was there This morning and I’ll be back tommoro morning .
I’ve only caught one small bass so far and lost two fish in the new Suffolk area but herd some nice bass were taken their mines next if I can find the time title lines to all .
The canal has been horrible so far this year….
My buddy and I caught 4 bass to 30lbs at race rock newlondon ct
caught first keeper boston harbor, off thompson island missed a throphy
What were you using?
The cows are late, but its nice to see all the schoolies. The class of 2011 looks healthy and vibrant! Tight-Lines!
Don’t even know these places ……. Smh haven’t went out stripper fishing for years!
CCC way off this year. Big push of Bass followed bait around the Cape & Islands.
#4 couldn’t be more on point. Saturday 6-7-14 in the Narragansett bay the bunkers were on fire and so were the stripers. 34, 32 and 24 pounders landed. Epic day!
My 11 yr old nephew caught his first striper at Plum Island. Just a schoolie, but the look on his face made it better than me catching a cow. Loved it!!!
Take a kid fishing and make some memories.
Where are the bunkers and what did you use for bait??
The big girls have finally shown up in the Merrimack!
GOT MY FIRST KEEPER STRIPER IN THE ABSECON INLET 38″ FISHING FROM THE BEACH,PLUS 4 BIG BLUES.NOT A BAD DAY AT ALL.LET IT RAIN
The bay was hot till about a week ago in dennis and Brewster but full moon fucked that up
Hit some small stripers on the canal today saw a few 20 plus pounders racing down east end at the hight of the flash floods hope it pushes them for tonight
We caught a 45 inch striper last week near Gloucester!!
Catching nice strikers all up and down the providence river.
The bass action is awesome mid Long Island sound on snagged bunker 7 keepers one very nice 32 pound bass my son brought in on Father’s Day biggest fish for him to date great fathers day be safe fellow fisherman
Stripers in the sound and ocean,nothing on the north shore or south shore beach. Not many birds .I see fewer and fewer surf guys. Dang, this year might make last year look good.
Smokinjoe
fished off of montauk point with the grandkids from Va- caught 19 all between 30-40lbs
kept 6 UNBELIEVABLE four hrs-even grandma reeled one in