With less than a week before Christmas and Hanukah, the main topic of regional angler discussion has been the gift that keeps on giving, striped bass! It’s been another solid fall run at the Jersey Shore, and a few bass are still in play for folks running and gunning their boats down local beaches. In the surf, just a pick really. The big news this week is the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) decision on striped bass in a 4-1/2-hour meeting on Monday; in this week’s video, we’ll have a full play-by-play breakdown and 10-minute analysis of the meeting – the motions, the debates, the final vote and the impending action. If you want to know where we stand now with striped bass management, and what’s happening next in 2025, check out the 15 minutes of this week’s video fishing forecast for the New Jersey, Delaware Bay region.
