Enjoy, hopefully, the last days of winter 2022. We had a nice warm-up and "pop" of striped bass fishing in early March. It definitely was early, but then in normalized as the month progressed and winter returned. Early on there was a plug and plastics bite, and even on the fly, from the shore but the fish have retreated a bit and become more lethargic, and that's why the blood and tape worm bites have been increasing.
As far as the fly rod fish, its coming. If you fish migratory fish they have to move, and at sometime have to eat. Bunker and herring in any kind of numbers will get them chewing. I've seen videos from the Manasquan River, there's a ton of bunker there. As far as the herring, divebombing birds in the bays and out front tell me there's baitfish, bunker or herring around.
It should be soon, air temps up to 70 this week, its about to get going, along with the new moon, get ready to go.
