Forty-pound stripers are being caught out front, the weakfish bite remains strong amid tons of bluefish, and tautog fishing is productive on the tail end of the season.
Good sized bluefish are around in numbers, scup and tautog are biting well on bottom, and night shift surfcasters find over-slot stripers from the rocks.
Striped bass from 30 inches to 30 pounds hit swimming plugs and topwaters in Naragansett Bay, tautog fishing steadily improved, and squidding is hit or miss.
The striped bass fishery on the east coast is overfished. The fishery experienced a significant increase in harvest in 2022, as the eighth most abundant year-class on record entered the allowable …
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