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| Here's a hefty 25 inch schoolie that I landed yesterday. The numbers of stripers along the oceanfront has dwindled in the last few days. |
The striper fishing along the oceanfront has gone noticeably downhill in the last couple of days. Happens this way at the end. There can be millions around one day, and a few days later you can't find one. While there are still a few fish around, their numbers have dwindled. And, with a big blow and storminess on the way for the next two days, it is not looking good. Today I could catch nothing in the daylight. Fortunately, I found a few small schoolies after dark. It feels like the end is in sight.
It's at this time of year that many of us start looking in the backwaters for stripers that will winter over here in RI. I've already tested the waters in some of those spots and found a few fish. I'm still planning on fishing in the next couple of weeks, but it will not be along the high surf of the oceanfront unless I get a favorable report from some of my diehard friends.
