High tide is working, but so is the low tide this time of year. Doug from Skip's Bait and Tackle reports lots of tautog from the North Jetty, South Jetty, and the Rt. Doug expounds that the striper fishing in the Inlet and in the vicinity of the Rt. The stripers are not being consistent with their feeding habits though. Usually stripers bite best on the beginning of the outgoing tide.
Live eels is the best available bait for the stripers.
We hear a 30 plus pounder was caught in the Inlet this weekend. 50 Bridge at night has seen some very nice stripers. There are not always numbers of fish, but there are definitely some keepers. We observed several being carried off the Rt. 50 Bridge early Monday morning that were caught Sunday night.