In this week’s Striper Migration Report, 50-pound cows are being caught off Northern New Jersey where bunker have begun to pile in just off the beaches. The north and south shores of Long Island are loaded with stripers in the 20- to 25-pound range, and in Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay saw its first wave of 40 pounders chasing schools of adult bunker. From Cape Cod to the North Shore of Massachusetts, 40-inch stripers are filling in nicely with plenty of 30-inch-class fish in the mix, and they’re eating everything from small sea herring and silversides to adult bunker and river herring.
Our first regional guest, Mike Pinto of Giglio’s Bait and Tackle in Sea Bright, NJ, runs through some productive lures in the surf for stripers feeding on bunker. However, Pinto said fresh chunks of bunker are also putting fish from the teen- to 20-pound range on the beach. Following his report, Jeff Lomonaco of White Water Outfitters in Hampton Bays, NY, discusses mid-May striper forage on the east end of Long Island, from bunker pods slightly west to cinder worms in the back bays. With the new moon on the way, it won’t be long before 40 pounders hit Montauk and the rips of Eastern Long Island Sound.
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