The ‘26 spring run at the Jersey Shore has been one for the ages, leading some anglers like 8-year-old Alivia Snover away from the largemouth she’s been targeting for 6 years and on to her first ever striper on April 18.The “glide bait” has been the hot lure this season, with Jeff Hagmann scoring three stripers at North Beach in Sandy Hook getting his glide on around the midday tide on Sunday, May 3.Fortescue Beach on the Delaware Bay has been hot all spring, with Renee Victoria catching and releasing this 46-inch jumbo there on May 3 using Higbee’s bloodworm. “Personal best and fight of my Life,” Renee told us.Creeping while you’re sleeping, surfcaster Billy Coppola has been nighttime plugging through the early part of May, using bigger lures and long sweeps with sharp twitches, scoring good fish on the pause at Point Pleasant Beach.
