The comeback of bunker, a critical baitfish on the Eastern Seaboard, has been a boon for striped bass. Joe Cermele. Depending on where you live on the striper coast, you may call these baitfish bunker ...

The author with a striped bass hooked on a prior fishing trip. Striper fishermen Roger Zalucky, left, of Troy, and Jack Whitman of Colonie both hook into fish while wading the Hudson River Friday ...

This year’s recreational striped bass fishing season on the Hudson River kicked off April 1, with a new mandatory “in-line” circle hook regulation for those anglers fishing with bait ...

John Lacey caught and released this 37.5-inch striped bass on May 1 on the Hudson River just north of the Corning Preserve in downtown Albany. "We were using chunk herring on anchor in about 20-25 ...

“Anglers are catching school striped bass, to keeper slot-size fish as well as 30- to 40-inch fish in the East Passage," said Jeff Sullivan of Lucky Bait & Tackle Warren. "They are using shads ...

LIVE BAIT is cheating. If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it 10,000 times. The level of cheating, of course, varies by species and age. Any child under 15 can use live bait for whatever he or she wants.

We have an influx of Atlantic menhaden (pogies) around Rhode Island in Narragansett and Mt. Hope Bays this week. With all this bait and the perfect water temperature (58 degrees ...

Speaking of sea bass, now is the time to get them and porgies as the fish are readily available on the reefs, wrecks and rocks in 120 feet of water or less. Capt. Ryan Bogan on the Jamaica II said ...

I’ve fished for more than 20 years, and I caught my first striped bass 18 years ago in Noyack Bay on the East End of Long Island, where I fell in love with the sport on summer vacations as a boy.