The June New Moon. Darkish nights, large tides, large stripers. This week noticed good stripers taken from Maryland to Maine, with a powerful exhibiting for surfcasters, who discovered large bass feeding inside casting distance of the seashore all all through the Northeast.
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Maryland/Chesapeake Bay Striper Fishing Report
Anglers fishing the ocean off Maryland are catching loads of stripers (and pink drum) however a lot of the fish proceed to be exterior their respective slot limits.
New Jersey Striper Fishing Report
The run of huge stripers in Delaware Bay has slowed to a trickle. Greater bass are getting an enormous scarce within the southernmost a part of New Jersey, however within the surf from Lengthy Seaside Island north, anglers proceed to seek out 40-inch-plus stripers. Fish to 50 inches proceed to be caught on eels and large metallic lips within the northernmost a part of the Jersey coast.
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New York Striper Report
The central South Shore is on hearth with huge fish feeding on bunker, because the biomass strikes east.
There are actually massive bass in Lengthy Island Sound, feeding each at evening and throughout the day.
Connecticut/Rhode Island Striper Report
Extra bass are transferring into Connecticut waters, with good faculties organising at locations just like the Intestine. The fishing ought to actually hearth up throughout the subsequent week.
The fishing in Rhode Island ratcheted up once more this week, with a return of dense faculties of bunker to the bay, and large stripers on them.
Cape Cod/Massachusetts Striper Report
Loads of stripers round Cape Cod, with many within the 10- to 25-pound vary. A wave of bigger fish moved by means of the Canal final weekend, whereas different faculties of huge fish have arrange at Monomoy, the Outer Cape, and Cape Cod Bay.
Huge bass are feeding properly across the South and North Shores, each near shore and farther off, the place just a few cow-sized stripers have given momentary thrills to anglers trolling squid bars for bluefin.
New Hampshire/Maine Striper Report
Bunker and mackerel are bringing greater stripers into Northern New England.
