With comfortable temperatures and plenty of bait, the big stripers seem happy off Long Island’s South Shore, with some even hitting the surf this week. Western Long Island Sound has had a great late-June bite of big bass on bunker chunks, and stripers to 50 pounds have moved in from Watch Hill to Newport. Another big school of big bass has set up shop off the tip of Cape Cod, and the outer Boston Harbor Islands are giving up cow bass on mackerel.
New Jersey Striper Report
After many had written off the Garden State spring run as over, a few stragglers to 52 pounds were taken in Northern New Jersey this week. With the warm water and heavy boat traffic, early mornings and evenings have had the most activity. In the surf and in the backwaters, resident fish, some well over keeper sized, have set up shop for the summer.
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Read the Southern New Jersey Fishing Report
New York Striper Report
A big biomass of very big stripers continued to feast on bunker off the Long Island South Shore, with good action being reported out to the Hamptons.
On the North Shore, the best action on bigger fish is to the east, though keeper-sized fish remain spread out along the entire North Shore.
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Connecticut/Rhode Island Striper Report
There are plenty of good stripers still hanging around the Western Sound, but many of the large fish seem to have moved east, which a good body of big fish showing up between Watch Hill and Fisher’s Island.
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Cape Cod/ Massachusetts Striper Report
A big school of big bass is feeding around the tip of Cape Cod, while large numbers of fish in the 30-40-inch range are stacked up in the rips of Monomoy and spread throughout Cape Cod Bay.
Big bass continue to come from Boston Harbor, while more reports of larger fish are coming from the North Shore of Massachusetts.
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Read the Massachusetts Fishing Report
New Hampshire/Maine Striper Report
Stripers suprassing 30 pounds have reached New Hampshire and Maine, with many of the larger fish being reported from the coastline, rather than the rivers and bays.
Read the New Hampshire/Maine Fishing Report.
In case you missed it, last week we posted a video celebrating the beginning of the migration and that first striper of the season. Check it out below:
I had the impression that successful C&R required cradling the bass horizontally so that the internal organs do not collapse downwards, and that this becomes more critical with increasing size. Kudo’s to those in photos 3 thru 6 for proper technique. I assume bass of photos 1 &2 were kept, although bass in photo 1 do not seem to me to be 28 inchers.
People are going to troll your comment, so I wanted to first say: good man. You are 100% correct and the fishery needs more people who think like you (us).
Most people don’t give a shit, it’s all about the pic on Instagram or Facebook!
Very happy I don’t have that pathetic “needy gene” so many humans have. I don’t “need” to show people where I am, what I am doing, or golly look at my fish….I am so great just look at me (!!!) mental weakness.
Don’t worry….I know the canned responses this will get from those who fit the description. Just needs to be said every once in a while….no go ahead and rationalize, make excuses, attack the messenger, blah, blah, blah. You r what u r. Needy, weak, sad individuals.
@TK Everyone wants to feel important. You would benefit from the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
It’s great not to be seen…and for some, even better not to be heard!