The Could Full Moon bought the massive bass shifting. Forty-plus pound fish had been reported all the best way as much as Massachusetts, whereas massive fish are nonetheless being caught in Southern New Jersey. As well as, large numbers of 26- to 32-inch fish are filling nearly all over the place, feeding on a wide range of baitfish together with sand eels, squid, butterfish, mackerel, and rain bait.
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Maryland/Chesapeake Bay Striper Fishing Report
Many of the bass left within the Chesapeake Bay are within the mid-20-inch vary and beneath. The bigger fish have vacated the bay and are shifting north.
New Jersey Striper Fishing Report
Resident bass are settling into the bays and surf of Southern New Jersey, with some massive, migrating fish nonetheless turning up within the inlets and on the ocean facet. Sand fleas are starting to work nicely for surf facet bass, whereas poppers and tender plastics are catching within the again.
Striper fishing is great off the northern half of the state with massive artificials and eels accounting for fish as much as 50 inches. Many of the large fish motion has been restricted to boat fishermen, however some high quality bass are being caught within the surf on bait.
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New York Striper Report
Colleges of bunker and mackerel in Lengthy Island Sound are drawing faculties of enormous stripers, whereas faculties of huge bass proceed to stage up off the western finish of the South Shore. Montauk is holding good numbers of slot and over-slot fish, with extra of the super-sized bass expeted to maneuver east following this moon.
Connecticut/Rhode Island Striper Report
Bunker faculties stay sparse in C0nnecticut, however fish to 30 kilos are round, with large numbers of 30-inch class fish throughout
Stripers from schoolies to 40-plus-pounders proceed to rove by Narragansett Bay, with some extra high quality, migratory fish displaying up alongside the seashores.
Cape Cod/Massachusetts Striper Report
The total moon and breaking tides introduced large stripers to the Cape Cod Canal. Cape Cod Bay is seeing extra bigger fish transfer in from round Race Level and from the Canal. Off the south facet of the Cape, massive faculties of 26- to 32-inch fish are hitting Martha’s Winery, Nantucket, and the rips.
Thirty-pounders have been reported in Boston and past, with extra fish sure to maneuver in following the moon.
New Hampshire/Maine Striper Report
Stripers to 40 inches are hitting the rivers in Maine and the coast of New Hampshire.
