Bottom fishing yields sea bass, scup and ling cod, holdover stripers are chewing in the rivers, and freshwater anglers catch trout, salmon, bass and perch.
Big stripers chase bunker in the harbors and river mouths and the western Sound has big bass feeding on hickory shad, meanwhile, tautog fishing has transitioned to deeper water.
Freshwater fishing heats up, schoolies blitz off central Sound beaches while many anglers begin hunting holdovers, and scup, tautog and sea bass continue to fill coolers.
The blackfish bite is excellent, with sea bass, porgies and cod rounding out the catch, and schoolie to slot-size stripers blitz along central and western Sound beaches.
Tautog, sea bass and scup fill coolers for bottom fishermen while plugs and paddletails catch stripers and blues on peanut bunker in the western Sound.