Stripers take swim shads, flutter spoons and trolled mojo rigs in the Sound, while bass in the rivers and creeks take topwaters and small plastics, plus, the tog season closed and scup season opens.
Tautog fishing is hit or miss as the season closer approaches, more migratory stripers arrive in the Western and Central Sound, and holdovers are chewing in the rivers and harbors.
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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.