It’s the fishing version of March Madness: the March 1 opener of the bay and tidal river striped bass season opens one second after midnight next Tuesday.
It’s the fishing version of March Madness: the March 1 opener of the bay and tidal river striped bass season opens one second after midnight next Tuesday.
It’s the fishing version of March Madness: the March 1 opener of the bay and tidal river striped bass season opens one second after midnight next Tuesday.
The Striper Migration Playbook
Catch stripers in estuaries, rivers, bays, and the surf by learning about their yearly migration patterns on the Atlantic coast.
Photo taken by Wayne Davis/Ocean Aerials.
From sometime in March to sometime in December, wader- and wetsuit-clad fishermen enter the ocean, hoping to encounter a great seven-striped fish. During the striper migration, ten months of high drama play out from Maine to New Jersey. Sleep is foregone and meals are skipped; big fish are bested and bigger fish are lost; lies are told and truths are withheld; friendships are made and rivalries are formed.
The season itself is ever-changing; the bass, oblivious to the fervor their presence has created on the land, follow their instincts, retracing paths that their kind has been swimming for thousands of years (or the past 100 years in the case of the Cape Cod Canal). Stay in tune with the rhythm of the striper migration, and you’ll stay on the bite all season long.