Lets bracket "peak" striper time as May to Sept. Yes I know you can catch them march to Dec in New England (or all year long if you fish rivers , etc) (For me it was always St Patricks Day to Monday after Thanksgiving). May to Sept has 153 days. If you want , call it 184 by including October or also include April and November and add the appropriate days. Its up to you.
Now we can argue about New Moons and Full Moons but the fact is that the tides go with the moon and that means about every 28 days there is a complete cycle and in that cycle we have high water and strong currents every 14 days along with low water and slower currents (or maybe faster in some areas at some times) every 14 days.
So now make up 2 scales (rulers or yard sticks). Make one with marks every 14 days and one with marks every month (30 days for June , 31 for August , etc). .
Now place the scales one above the other and slide them back and forth relative to one another. You will see that at some relative locations of the scales , you will get an extra big moon event occuring during your chosen peak season and at other relative scale locations you will lose one.. Under the right circumstances of Moon dates you may even gain a second extra tide during your defined peak season..
So depending on the timing of the first moon event relative to the first day of your defined season , you get an extra chance or two at good moon tides.
To get more in depth , add a vertical scale to your scales showing high and low tide times on your 14 day scale and time of day on the calendar scale. Now if you like you could add a wave on your scale that goes up and down with the high/low tide times. Now when you move the scales relative to each other , you will see when the tide events throughout the season correspond to the times of day you like to fish. You could add more event markers to you calendar scale to indicate say fridays or Saturdays , etc. Another good event to add to your scalkes would be sunrise and sunset.
So lets say you slide the scales up and down relative to each other and you notice certain must fish days. For me that would be when new moon tides correspond to sunset on a Friday night!
So anyway , all the excitement of a blue moon is just that idea (not nescessarily reality) that you get an extra day of good tides during some predetermined time frame. In the case of Blue Moons the time frame is a month but I think "peak" fishing times is more important.
Conclusions. There are times when fishing is predicted to be better. Strong tides, do to moon phases, is one , thus the excitement of a Blue Moon. Sunrise and sunsets are another , time of day of the high and low tides relative to when you like to fish are another. Days you can go (like Friday nights) are another.
To be honest , I would get a lot more excited when a higher than normal tide happens to coincide with the sunset on a friday night than I would about a Blue Moon but if that extra moon tide is what makes that peculiarly good friday night possible than Oh yeah , we love the Blue Moon (or the new moon two weeks before or after!
Yes when there is an extra moon in the month , the moon is actually Blue in color and if you make a wish when you see that blue colored moon rise , your wish will come true.