What's the skinny? How is the fishing in NJ / LI shaping up?

Anxiously waterlogged minds want to know.

Report I got from Saturday was lots and lots of 20 lbers but nothing large so to speak. Doesnt mean there isnt any just not caught from the 4 charter skippers I was with.

Bait is moving in to the creeks so fish are not far behind i know upisland closer to NY fish are starting to be caught. These warm days are bringing them closer every day. I start in the beginning of May .:uhuh:

Bait is moving in to the creeks so fish are not far behind i know upisland closer to NY fish are starting to be caught. These warm days are bringing them closer every day. I start in the beginning of May .:uhuh:

I heard there are fish in the Peconic. I know there's fish by me :jump:.
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Big body of 20lb fish showed on the oceanfront on herring and Bunker, One Headboat had over 100 20+lb fish earlier in the week, My first Ocean trip last year was May 12... Good numbers of teen and 20lb fish in the bay, Good numbers clammin', lots of bunker in the bays and river.... Heard of the first 40+lb fish (45)taken of the surf along with a few 30's... This is all Northern NJ, NY Harbor waters...

Big body of 20lb fish showed on the oceanfront on herring and Bunker, One Headboat had over 100 20+lb fish earlier in the week, My first Ocean trip last year was May 12... Good numbers of teen and 20lb fish in the bay, Good numbers clammin', lots of bunker in the bays and river.... Heard of the first 40+lb fish (45)taken of the surf along with a few 30's... This is all Northern NJ, NY Harbor waters...

Great news, is this early or right on schedule?

That shot of ocean fish would normally be well offshore, not inshore how it was, just not something we are used to seeing I guess.... The Bay Fishing is what it normally is..

On a side note, from what I hear the run in the upper Chesapeke is the worst seen in years... Gillnets everywhere, never seen so many... (Thats second hand info from one of the top guys down there).

we're screwed. Spawning stock was decimated this winter.
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CH

heard the same thing __ 2nd hand

they said if it wasn,t for the hudson stock .... there would be no striper fishing :wall:

Dave's market is selling "Fresh Striped Bass" for $12.95 a pound.
Got to be fresh from VA or MD

or the farms ><><><

or the farms ><><><

Too big Mike. These were decent sized filets

so don't expect any fish from Chesapeke Bay ,, But there is a pod of 20 lb. fish that are getting picked off now .. This keeps up I might be joining NIB ... Fore !!!!!!!

so don't expect any fish from Chesapeke Bay ,, But there is a pod of 20 lb. fish that are getting picked off now .. This keeps up I might be joining NIB ... Fore !!!!!!!

I heard the same thing about Raritan Bay, NJ.