In Week 6 of our 2026 Striper Migration Reports, Johnny McIntyre and Matt Haeffner review the results of their road trips to New York and New Jersey before breaking down how April’s new moon impacted the migration between Chesapeake Bay and southern New England. The guys touch on the arrival of migratory fish in Connecticut and Rhode Island, the influx of bunker on Long Island, and post-spawn fish racing out of the rivers in lower and middle Chesapeake Bay.
Plus, we get an update from Mike Gleason at Tak Waterman in Long Branch, NJ, who discusses the local striper bite from Raritan Bay to the ocean surf and what lies ahead for anglers in northern New Jersey as we head into late April.
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