Striper Migration Report | May 10, 2024

We're halfway through our 14-week Striper Migration Report series, and this week, OTW's Assistant Editor Matt Haeffner is joined by Scott Thomas of Grumpy's Tackle in Seaside Park, NJ, and On The Water's Editor, Jimmy Fee. Scott and Matt discuss the arrival of cow stripers from Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River, where to focus your efforts between the bays and the ocean surf, and how to weed out bluefish by using jigs and "throwing the snot". Then, Jimmy and Matt run through fishing with flutter spoons, the current state of the migration around Cape Cod, how to approach striper fishing during the worm hatch, and when the bass will set up on schools of squid in the rips of Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds.
This week, trophy class stripers from the Chesapeake pulled up off the coast of New Jersey, a wave of 30-inch-class migratory fish hit the shores of Connecticut, 20-pounders rounded the eastern tip of Long Island, and liced-up schoolies reached Maine!
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[@nomansjam3950]

37" from shore outer Cape flats last night at midnight...chunk bait, circle hook...epic battle...swam away Free🤙

[@cjmcadam1960]

What’s the flats exactly mean

[@CarverSpicer-fh6ee]

​@@cjmcadam1960 mud flat

[@caseyj8313]

Nice man

[@petejablowski2123]

Weather has been completely trash this spring . Moving to Florida this fall I’ve had enough

[@surfin90]

I’m on Fire Island in NY now! Def seeing some life around! Hopefully can find a few later this afternoon!

[@NickOnTheWater]

Jimmy "Too Cool For Schoolies" Fee

[@anthonydevillets3998]

I’m going out tomorrow hoping to get on some fish near cuttyhunk

[@HenryHey-hg6gm]

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[@HenryHey-hg6gm]

Play the band The omega-3 company off the shores of Jersey and Long Island is there early devastating the bunker population because people need hair conditioner doesn't mean you need to destroy the whole ecosystem over some smelly fish known as bunker

[@cjmcadam1960]

Lol why wouldn’t he just come down and film with you instead of upstairs so weird

[@jamestfee]

We had to record it on webcams because the only guy who knows how to work the podcasting equipment was out on vacation.

[@NickOnTheWater]

Its because of the smell

[@cjmcadam1960]

@@NickOnTheWater 😂😂

[@HenryHey-hg6gm]

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