First striper of 2015

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There...now that I got everyone's attention...
Usually the first small bass of the season is caught down in Great Bay near Tuckerton. or in Oyster Creek, or along the western Raritan Bay shoreline, usually first week of march or so.. Being that the board has just about stopped dead lately, I thought maybe we could get some discussion going about this years first striper opportunities. actually ANY fishing opportunities... the way things are, I think its going to be the latest season start we have seen in a lot of years.. The Hudson is locked solid in thick ice upstate.. Some winters is has mostly open water right up to Albany..

When I lived in Union Beach in the early 80's, I recall that the Hudson, Rartitan, Passiac and Hackensack Rivers had so much influence on bay water temps that even winter flounder fishing was late in years when there was a lot of ice running down the rivers into the bay... I don't know, this might be a dumb post, but I am bored out of my mind, freezing cold all the time, and am dying to get out fishing again..... I am just sick of this weather, sick of waking up to -10 every day, sick of snow that never melts... I have it worse than my NJ fishing friends,, but not by much this year.. Its bad everywhere.
Years past, we would be talking about early season trips for school stripers, flounder, ling, whatever by this time.... this winter, it seems like its never going to end.. All we can do is talk about it I guess... bob