I'm sure it doesn't matter where you fish early season for striped bass. Hard fluctuations in weather patterns lead to Bipolar fishing. Take in point flows. while more, well consistent, flows are a good thing in rivers, quick swings can shut things down. Take two days ago when the river went from 8,000 to 16,000 cfs. Now we seem to leveled off around 13,000 but with big rain on the way I'm sure that number will double.
When the river went to 55 I was worried that a few days of sun would crest it over 60. But now with air tmps in the 30's at night were down to 50. I know that changes in water temperatures like that can shut them down and keep them being active and any kind of aggressive.
Things will normalize and there will be good days but this season is starting off a bit sideways. It's definitely not fly rod time and I could use a few trips were I'm not just putting in time but confident that I have a shot at landing a fish.