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.

Large bass continue to press north through New Hampshire and Maine where anglers are reporting migratory fish up to 50-pounds.

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.

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

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

The June Full Moon.

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

Striper fishing quieted a bit in some locations, but in others, where schools of bass are staging as they wait for the big full moon tides to aid their migration north, this fishing continues to be excellent.

Long Island Sound is flooded with stripers of all sizes, the Cape Cod Canal bait melee continues, meanwhile 40 inchers crush topwater plugs in New Hampshire.