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, huge numbers of 26- to 32-inch fish are filling nearly all over the place, feeding on quite a lot 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 under. 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 aspect. Sand fleas are starting to work effectively for surf aspect bass, whereas poppers and gentle 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 huge 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
Faculties of bunker and mackerel in Lengthy Island Sound are drawing colleges of huge stripers, whereas colleges of massive 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 colleges stay sparse in C0nnecticut, however fish to 30 kilos are round, with huge 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 huge 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 aspect of the Cape, massive colleges 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 certain 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.
