plugginpete
04-14-2010, 11:25 AM
Good fishin'? You bet your bass (http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/good_fishin_you_bet_your_bass_fNMe46XiYSnvO2uppb4P rL)
Ken Moran - NY Post
The striped bass season should open tomorrow on a positive note with both South and North Shore anglers reporting healthy numbers of schoolies bass being caught and released this past week.
There was a bass caught in the surf last weekend off the jetty at Ditch Plains out near Montauk, and we know there are stripers pouring out of the Hudson and also moving up the coast from the Chesapeake.
The early season stripers are usually caught in the Hudson and East Rivers as well as off the south side of Staten Island and into the western Sound.
Right now there are schoolies bass showing in Jamaica Bay and off Great Kills, feeding on the early season schools of bunker. There were reports of keeper bass in the Narrows near the Verrazano Bridge.
If you are fishing these areas, think about using herring as bait since these fish are in the area as well.
There are plenty of bass in the Hudson and they are being caught off Croton, Tarrytown and Nyack.
Over the next few weeks they will be invading the inlets along the South Shore, from the Rockaways to Fire Island and these are mostly fish from the Hudson.
The Chesapeake Bay bass will be hitting the East End generally around the middle of May.
Years ago, fishing from the surf was how it all got started, with fishermen swinging a tin lure on a line over their heads while standing in the surf and letting go.
The most productive way now is to troll with wire lines, tubes or umbrella rigs. The one tried and true method that has held up for years is drifting with live eels.
No matter where or how you fish, conservation methods employed by the East Coast states have saved the striper and offered us exciting fishing.
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/good_fishin_you_bet_your_bass_fNMe46XiYSnvO2uppb4P rL?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=
Ken Moran - NY Post
The striped bass season should open tomorrow on a positive note with both South and North Shore anglers reporting healthy numbers of schoolies bass being caught and released this past week.
There was a bass caught in the surf last weekend off the jetty at Ditch Plains out near Montauk, and we know there are stripers pouring out of the Hudson and also moving up the coast from the Chesapeake.
The early season stripers are usually caught in the Hudson and East Rivers as well as off the south side of Staten Island and into the western Sound.
Right now there are schoolies bass showing in Jamaica Bay and off Great Kills, feeding on the early season schools of bunker. There were reports of keeper bass in the Narrows near the Verrazano Bridge.
If you are fishing these areas, think about using herring as bait since these fish are in the area as well.
There are plenty of bass in the Hudson and they are being caught off Croton, Tarrytown and Nyack.
Over the next few weeks they will be invading the inlets along the South Shore, from the Rockaways to Fire Island and these are mostly fish from the Hudson.
The Chesapeake Bay bass will be hitting the East End generally around the middle of May.
Years ago, fishing from the surf was how it all got started, with fishermen swinging a tin lure on a line over their heads while standing in the surf and letting go.
The most productive way now is to troll with wire lines, tubes or umbrella rigs. The one tried and true method that has held up for years is drifting with live eels.
No matter where or how you fish, conservation methods employed by the East Coast states have saved the striper and offered us exciting fishing.
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/good_fishin_you_bet_your_bass_fNMe46XiYSnvO2uppb4P rL?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=