UPDATED 7/17/23 On July 9, angler Jake Walsh was kayak fishing around Boothbay Harbor in Liniken Bay, Maine when he came across an unfortunate sight: a net—stretching from the shoreline to approximately 500 yards out

Rise well before the summer sun to catch stripers in the cool, quiet and still crowd-less backwaters.

The striper migration is slowly coming to a halt as ocean temperatures rise and bass seek cool, forage-rich environments to spend the summer months.

Stripers are settling into summer dwellings around places like Block Island while bunker schools fuel the final stages of the migration in northern New England.

Eliminate slack and keep your lure still in the strike zone to consistently catch stripers just off the beach.

The highly-anticipated June new moon is here, and stripers are slowly preparing to settle into their summer dwellings.

In this week’s striper migration report, Assistant Editor Matt Haeffner dives into the influx of sand eels from Long Island to Cape Cod Bay, herring-fueled cow bass in Boston and hickory shad showing up on

On May 26, 2023 the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) enacted emergency recreational regulations to change the maximum length limit for keeping striped bass in Massachusetts.

In this week’s migration report, OTW’s Assistant Editor Matt Haeffner covers the shifting bass behavior prior to the June full moon, stripers on squid in the rips off of Cape Cod, and herring schools in

Forty-pound class stripers reach Cape Cod Bay and bass bust on herring from Massachusetts to Maine in this week's migration update.