Big Mohawk News Today

Sea bass season starts off with a bang, fluke and bluefish are chewing in the rivers, and cow stripers take metal lips and live bunker out front.

The blackfish bite has picked up significantly while striper fishing is still day to day, and trout season is officially open for the freshwater crowd.

Stripers take bloodworms, swim shads, minnow plugs and trollers in the bays, ocean fish begin to trickle in, and shops prepare for blackfish season.

Tautog fishing is a tough pick out front, decent striper fishing continues in the lower Bay, and pickerel and panfish are chewing in the rivers.

White perch feed in the rivers, blackfishing is a slow pick, and the freshwater ponds are giving up pickerel, crappie and largemouth bass.

Headboats sneak out for blackfish and cod when conditions permit, while other anglers pursue white perch, crappie and freshwater bass.

Headboats pick through short blackfish for keepers on the deeper wrecks, and largemouth bas and crappie are chewing in the ponds as they begin to thaw out.

The blackfish bite was decent prior to the cold front, but high winds, highs seas and high flows in the rivers have hindered fishing participation.

A few stripers linger in the surf, the ponds are fishing well for bass, perch and crappie, and tautog fishing was productive prior to the windy conditions.

The blackfish bite has been decent, with fewer, but bigger fish being landed; still, the best fishing this week is in the freshwater ponds and reservoirs.