How to fish an inlet jetty for striped bass
Read the current edge, choose an upstream cast and control the lure through it. A practical guide to inlet jetties, close rock edges and changing flow.
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How-to
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Incoming or outgoing? In Delaware Bay's marsh creeks, the bass came at low water
No tide is best everywhere. A study that timed striped bass in Delaware Bay marsh creeks netted about 80 percent of them around low water, on the last of the outgoing and the first of the incoming, and its tagged fish swam up the creeks on the ebb instead of riding it out.
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Do striped bass face into the current? What science and striper sharpies actually tell us
A 1975 lab study measured juvenile striped bass turning to face moving water more often as velocity rose. Guides and surfcasters have been reading the same behavior in rips, at bridges, and around boulders for generations — here's the mechanism, and what it changes about where you cast.
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The river taught you how to fish the ocean
Wild brown trout spend 86% of their foraging time sitting still beside fast water, and the lab has measured what that buys them — including the finding that at high flow the cheapest place to hold was in front of the rock, not behind it. Here is what that teaches about holding water on the coast.
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Seven in ten. That is what a summer release costs in fresh water.
Above 25°C, striped bass released into fresh water died at 70.4 percent. The same fish released into mildly brackish water died at 1.8. The difference is not handling or hook placement — it is salinity, and it is one of the biggest levers any of us has over whether a released fish lives.
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The most underfished window on the coast is the morning after
Two of New England's most experienced surfcasters, working different water and never citing each other, describe the same storm sequence in three phases — and both say the same phase is the one nobody fishes.
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How to read a rip — where striped bass actually hold in moving water
A rip is the most readable piece of striper water on the coast. What makes one form, where the fish hold in it, how to find rips on a chart from Maine to Connecticut, and the one wind condition that should send you home.
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