Goodbye to a Crappy September

It's been a year of poor striper fishing here on the mainland shore. Why should September be any different? We got hit with a double whammy this month as we had both a lack of fish and some unusually bad weather. Big problem is that there are few resident fish around. Especially alarming is the lack of schoolies. We are also about to get hit with our third tropical storm in as many weeks. These storms have brought huge waves, big wind and have caused the water to be roiled for days afterward. I was down last night and fished a building sea that was near impossible to fish effectively.
Will things turn around? It's hard to say. It is a waiting game, waiting for migrating bait and fish to move southward. With water temperatures way above normal, that is not likely to happen until late October and early November like it did last year. However, without a shot of bait, those fish will move quickly past RI. You will have to be there when it happens, if it does.