[Gerry Zagorski]

You picked the right time to get back into the mix Bass....The Stripers have really come on strong in the past few days.

Most people are jigging metal and working the birds and some using poppers. If the boat traffic pushes the bait down they are for the most part switching over to trolling Umbrella rigs and some guys using Bunker spoons or drifting eels.

Most of the better fishing was up north in the Sandy Hook area on the outside until recently. It seems that the fish have now started to move south along the Mo Co beaches too.

Good to see that, this way the fleet can spread out a bit rather than everyone and their brother working the same patch of fish off Sandy Hook.

It should be game on over the next few weeks and I'm hoping they stick around well in December.