Striper Migration Map Archives - On The Water (2024)

This week saw good stripers taken from Maryland to Maine, with a strong showing for surfcasters, who found big bass feeding within casting distance of the beach all throughout the Northeast.

As large bunker schools continue to pop up along the coast this week, big bass remain widespread from Jersey to Massachusetts, and 40-inch bass continue to flood southern Maine.

Big bass up to 50 pounds are stationed outside of Raritan and Jamaica Bays, waves of stripers from 10 to 30 pounds are rounding Montauk, and bass in the upper 30- to 40-inch class chase a smorgasbord of bait outside Boston.

The last week of May saw some good fishing following the full moon, with a huge variety of baitfish tempting stripers, including bunker, mackerel, butterfish, alewives, and bay anchovies.

Cow stripers remained stationed off of northern New Jersey as schoolies began dropping out of the Hudson River, slot-class fish invaded the waters from Cape Cod Bay to Boston, and 20- to 40-pound bass span from Long Island to Massachusetts.

Forty-plus pound fish have made their way into to Massachusetts, while large fish are still being caught in Southern New Jersey.

Some extra-large stripers have staged up off New Jersey, while more and bigger fish continue to hit New England.

Trophy-size stripers stop off in northern New Jersey, the Long Island Sound sees a wave of 20-plus-pounders, and slot-class stripers continued to push north of Boston.

This week, Scott Thomas of Grumpy's Tackle discusses the migration in New Jersey, and OTW Editor Jimmy Fee breaks down the smorgasbord of bait in southern New England.

Big, post-spawn stripers are streaming out of the Chesapeake Bay, and some of the fish are beginning to turn up off New Jersey and New York.