I live at the junction of the Chicopee and Connecticut Rivers in Springfield, MA. The stripers are here. Schoolies all you want, some cows mixed in. Largest I have record of is a 33 1/2" 16.75 pounder.
I have a pic of one. Hope this works.
BF -- fished your favorite waters over the weekend fairly hard. Dinks only and not even in the quantities of last year. Maybe too early on the ocean side. Bayside flats are producing small fish. by the way -- ran into big schools of sand eels. SOON!
They were about a week later this year . Lots of fish now and the bait is bigger than the stripers. With the warm weather coming, should see some keepers by the end of the week.