Weather shouldn’t bother Raritan Bay stripers

While yesterday’s huge ocean swell will impact bottom fishing there, it probably won’t put much of a crimp in the Raritan Bay striper fishery.

Unfortunately, fishing conditions don’t look good until Wednesday. The morning forecast is for southwest winds at 15-20 knots with gusts to 25 — and 5-8-foot seas. Evening showers are possible.

Yesterday’s description of Tyman’s Friday trip was wrong about the large stripers as Chuck Many said they got out of the wind to fish worms and topwaters in the Hudson for plenty of schoolies plus the weakfish and a fluke that were all released.

Chris Buchta sent a note about his April striper fishing which illustrates just how good it has been:

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“From April 1 to the 27 we caught all our bass on artificials , 2 days we used live bait , most trips 15-25 fish and many over that , only 3 trips where we saw slower fishing and had at least 8 bass , biggest went 42# many in the 30# class with 2 just under 40#s , may should be amazing with big fish coming up the beach and in the bays , still have a few weekday spots available.”