When I was in my teens, Thanksgiving largely marked the end of the saltwater striper season in New Jersey. That’s not to say there weren’t opportunities beyond that, but well before Christmas it often ...

Find schoolie stripers on mud flats during flood tides in back bays. Dark mud holds heat and harbors marine worms, making these areas prime feeding zones. Focus on current breaks around structure like ...

From tailraces below dams to vast reservoirs, here’s how to find, target, and land trophy striped bass across the Southeast. Being from New England I had never experienced freshwater striped bass ...

One of my favorite spring fishing trips is the quest for striped bass. The larger fish follow Atlantic menhaden (a type of herring) up Narragansett Bay into rivers and estuaries where the menhaden ...

Saltwater striped bass aren’t very hard to catch. Many “Insta-famous” anglers and striped bass fishing influencers want you to think otherwise, but the reality is that the most difficult part of the ...

Mr. Sweeney writes that one of the most important things you can learn about fishing the Napa River is to stop looking at it as one continuous body of water.

Striped bass are here, and anglers are catching them. So I thought I would share three ways that seem to be working to catch them. It's important to note that striped bass are in tough shape. They are ...

Ask Ed Lombardo about the best striped bass he’s ever caught on a flyrod and you can almost hear the snapshots of moments clattering through his memory. The stories generally all start in the same ...

Hot weather is approaching, which means you will have to go deep to catch striped bass until autumn. When you find them, you'll often find them in bunches. The action can be frenetic as you battle ...