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Stripers take swim shads, flutter spoons and trolled mojo rigs in the Sound, while bass in the rivers and creeks take topwaters and small plastics, plus, the tog season closed and scup season opens.
Tautog fishing is hit or miss as the season closer approaches, more migratory stripers arrive in the Western and Central Sound, and holdovers are chewing in the rivers and harbors.
Trout and largemouth bass are chewing well, tautog fishing has been slow, and holdover striper activity picks up with good action on soft plastics.
The blackfish bite is excellent, with sea bass, porgies and cod rounding out the catch, and schoolie to slot-size stripers blitz along central and western Sound beaches.
Tautog, sea bass and scup fill coolers for bottom fishermen while plugs and paddletails catch stripers and blues on peanut bunker in the western Sound.