Over the past two days, I have been fishing for stripers at the ocean and had some great success. On Monday, I was there four and a half hours and landed nine fish. But the big news is that I had one fish that was a near-keeper that I landed on a bucktail jig. I also saw other near keepers taken. It is obvious that larger fish are starting to mix in with the small schoolies that have dominated the scene recently. I have also heard reliable reports of several keepers taken in the last week.
On Tuesday, I fished upper Narragansett Bay from shore and had nine schoolies in ten minutes! In total, I landed twenty-two schoolies, all decent fish that ran from 16 to 24 inches, far bigger on average than I have seen along the oceanfront. They were all caught on albino Zoom flukes mounted on a lightweight jighead. At the same time I was getting them in the upper Bay, a friend of mine was fishing a mid-bay location and he reports seeing schoolies landed there in the evening.
Clearly, the stripers are all over the Bay right now. It is just a matter of moving around, doing a lot of casting and finding the good numbers of fish. Spring fishing along the oceanfront is now in full swing!
Photos of Striper Fishing Has Arrived on the New England Shore
