Is Raritan Bay Next

[Skolmann]

Originally Posted by Detour66

Am I missing something? I don't remember this early spring striper run 20+ years ago in Raritan Bay but I do remember people fishing for bass on Flynn's Knoll after these fish where done spawning in the upper Hudson River.

When I started striper fishing in the bay back in the mid 1990’s, the spring striper fishery consisted of me drifting sandworms through the Sandy Hook Rips (R.I.P.), along the edges of Sandy Hook Channel, under The Highlands Bridge as well as further up the Shrewsbury from the Rumson Bridge up to a sunken tug and at various spots in the Navesink. Caught bass from the mid 20 inch class to the mid 30 inch. Usually started around mid April. By mid May is when we’d first start chunking on Flynns Knoll & Romers Shoal.

There wasn’t much of a mid bay fishery that I can recall. Maybe the fish were there & we never knew it. I do recall that people fished off the back bay beaches though.