Backwater stripers hit lightweight soft plastics and bucktails, white perch fishing slows down, and tautog chew around ocean inlet jetties on crabs and clams.
Striper fishing is still hot around the Raritan, trout season opened this week, and blackfish are biting well around Point Pleasant Canal and the ocean inlets.
The striper bite in Raritan Bay is red hot and the action is improving by the day in Barnegat Bay. Meanwhile, blackfishing has been surprisingly good offshore.
Heavy wind and weather made for some challenging striped bass fishing this week, and only a handful of winter flounder catches have been reported so far.