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Originally Posted by Skolmann
When I started striper fishing in the bay back in the mid 1990’s, the spring striper fishery consisted of me drifting sandworms through the Sandy Hook Rips (R.I.P.), along the edges of Sandy Hook Channel, under The Highlands Bridge as well as further up the Shrewsbury from the Rumson Bridge up to a sunken tug and at various spots in the Navesink. Caught bass from the mid 20 inch class to the mid 30 inch. Usually started around mid April. By mid May is when we’d first start chunking on Flynns Knoll & Romers Shoal.
There wasn’t much of a mid bay fishery that I can recall. Maybe the fish were there & we never knew it. I do recall that people fished off the back bay beaches though.
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That's pretty much what I recall also. maybe the fish where there all along but I think that there a lot of bait in the bay which now keeps them around. It's amazing you keep the commercial guys out of the equation with stripers and bunker and in a few years the fishing really picks up!
