Striper Migration Report | April 19, 2024

In Week 4 of our 14-week Striper Migration Report videos, Assistant Editor, Matt Haeffner, checks in with OTW's Nick Cancelliere on the current status of the migration in Western Long Island Sound, before heading up the coast to touch base with Stavros Viglas on Martha's Vineyard. Matt and Nick discuss the patterns of resident stripers in and around NYC, the springtime forage base in the Western Sound, and anticipating when the next wave of migratory fish will move in. Then, Stavros Viglas fills us in on the arrival of Massachusetts' first schoolies on the Vineyard, how to approach fishing the surf and the salt ponds during the early migration, and his most productive lures for the beginning of the season.
This week, as the spawn winds down in upper Chesapeake Bay tribs, a wave of migratory stripers hit Western Rhode Island with some large bunker schools, 40-inch stripers filed into the South Jersey surf, and liced-up schoolies reached the south coast of Massachusetts and the Islands off of Cape Cod.
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[@jonmarcosanchez4524]

Thanks again Matt, your ability to clarify to audiences that are not familiar to the lingo is great!

[@845pyro]

Beacon ny here bite is slow this far up Hudson River as of right now

[@luissoto8968]

Bridgeport Ct Here we been doing good with spooks and pencil poppers

[@adamw7158]

thats good to know thanks been wanting to get down to the shore

[@wojtek0128]

I fished the mouth of the Raritan today…. No bunker at all…. Marked some bigger fish but zero bite

[@user-wf4ju9ou2e]

hitting 40 inches daily from me and all my buddies in the Philly/Chester area

[@dowaa]

What's your setup? Also around where are you fishing? I'm from Delco.

[@kairauch7320]

[@jonmarcosanchez4524]

Had a slow week on the lower Hudson this week. Chunking bunker. We have caught over 30 inch fish all April though.

[@highlandstackle3217]

Almost no bunker in the Raritan

[@frankiediaz4299]

Jamaica bay full of bunker

[@ehayward3719]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁