Striped Bass in the Rivers

[MudCat08]

If anyone is fishing our bigger rivers, are the stripers still in the rivers or have they already gone back to the ocean this season?
Asking because i have not caught one yet and would like to try fishing for them in Passaic river below the Dundee Dam area.
Will be trying bucktails.

[Urban Angler]

From Now till December.. go nuts!

[MudCat08]

Awesome, This could be my best chance to catch one. that and the hundson

[Skunk City]

We will need some serious, sustained rain for you to fish down there with any luck. No Bass and those shallow rocks will eat your bucktails all day.

[MudCat08]

so without days of rain it is too shallow to fish the dundee dam area?
Are the hundson river banks out in north jersey also the same way?

Still going to give it a shot (probably next week) and if i start to lose bucktail jigs then i'll leave haha.

[Skunk City]

Originally Posted by MudCat08

so without days of rain it is too shallow to fish the dundee dam area?
Are the hundson river banks out in north jersey also the same way?

Still going to give it a shot (probably next week) and if i start to lose bucktail jigs then i'll leave haha.

Being that the river now is still at "summertime low", you could walk across it and barely get your knees wet there. The rain we got this week wasn't enough to do anything.

[MudCat08]

What about the areas of deeper water below the dam? maybe some stripers hiding in there?
for example across from the Pub at 732 River Dr, Garfield, NJ 07026. And below that area?

[MudCat08]

Tried the Hackensack river a few days ago. no bass.
Today went to the Hudson river around the GWB, still no bass though.
Next probably going to try Sandy Hook to see if some are still stuck in the surf, or I'll go further up the Hudson river and see if they are around the boat marinas.

[MudCat08]

Went to Sandy Hook today but got nothing in the surf. not a bite.

I guess further up the Hudson it is.