March 1 cannot pull in soon enough! That’s the train of thought among those familiar with the early spring striper fishery in Ocean County’s Oyster Creek, particularly in the outflow section as the warmed water wends its way to Barnegat Bay.
Just off Route 66 in Middlefield, Connecticut, lies a 116-acre impoundment named Beseck Lake.
Located at 700 Magnolia Blvd. in Long Beach, Magnolia Pier is an “L” shape designed structure approximately 300 feet in total length jutting out into Reynolds Channel.
With blackfish season running red hot, it’s a good time for South Jersey anglers to look at the Wildwood Reef for whitechins.
Mansfield Hollow Lake is located within Mansfield Hollow State Park in Connecticut and is a popular year-round destination for anglers from across New England.
The pier is located in the unique environs of Hempstead Town’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick, an environmentally friendly wildlife sanctuary spread over 55 acres on the South Shore’s Merrick Bay.
As striped bass migrate along the Atlantic Coast, many fish – often some of the biggest of the lot – will follow a north to south superhighway just inside the three-mile line.
Browns Reef, as it’s referred to by Branford bottom fishing regulars, is actually a cluster of individual structures, each with its own name and navigational aid, but often collectively known as “Browns.”
When hurricanes and superstorms such as Superstorm Sandy wreak havoc along the coast of the Northeast, the result is more often than not, devastating.
While the Eights sit a bit outside the Delaware Bay they are well inside the Line of Demarcation and therefore a legal location to fish for striped bass.
They told me they wanted to fish an isolated location, away from the contested waters from Watch Hill to Long Island where access was either limited or non-existent.
Heading west through Fire Island Inlet and just before you approach the deep blue, you’ll pass the backside jetty of Democrat Point on the left…
Absecon Creek has been undergoing some major “renovations,” and improvement projects at two entirely separate locations along the creek are finally coming to fruition after several years of careful planning.
It doesn’t require much imagination to guess how Long Sand Shoal earned its descriptive name. Stretching 6 miles from its east-end bell to its west-end gong, Long Sand Shoal spans the towns of Old Saybrook and Westbrook, Connecticut, and its midpoint rests 1-1/2 miles south of Cornfield Point.
Located on the north shore of Long Island, between Shoreham to the west and Baiting Hollow to the east, the Herod Point Shoal is approximately a 4.5-mile stretch of fishing paradise that produces throughout the season.
Raritan Bay holds plenty of hot spots for the August run of doormats, but one that falls a little under the radar is the Chapel Hill Channel.
