In this week’s Striper Migration Report, OTW’s Matt Haeffner discusses his trip to the south shore of Long Island, where stripers ranging from schoolie size to 30-inches-plus have been feeding on bunker, sand eels, and silversides from the bays and inlets to the surf. Plus, we forecast what southern Massachusetts anglers can expect from the migration heading into the first week of May.
Our first regional guest, Matt Stone of Black Hall Outfitters in Westbrook, CT, discusses how to target resident stripers as they drop out of the tidal creeks and rivers where they’ll soon mix in with migratory fish. Then, Captain Brandon Weitz of Causeway Bait and Tackle in Wantagh, NY, touches on the south shore’s building surf bite and the average size class of bass that have been moving in and out of the inlets to feed as they head east towards Montauk.
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