The blackfish bite holds strong in the Sound and the NY Bight, bluefin crash through bait schools near shore and offshore wreck trips yield a mixed bag of cod, sea bass and more.

Tautog are still feeding as they migrate onto offshore wintering grounds, while in freshwater, bass, pike and trout are keeping anglers’ lines tight.

The recent rainfall over the last couple of weeks has bumped up the flows in streams, producing good brown trout and steelhead action.

Mackerel are thick in the east end of the Canal where some schoolie stripers are being caught on jigs, and trout and bass take various live baits and suspending jerkbaits in the ponds.

Big stripers chase bunker in the harbors and river mouths and the western Sound has big bass feeding on hickory shad, meanwhile, tautog fishing has transitioned to deeper water.

Big cod mix in with keeper tautog while sea bass move deep, and striper activity shifts toward holdover areas while freshwater fishermen chase largemouth bass and stocked trout.

The upper Potomac is fishing well for smallmouth bass and walleye while the lower Potomac yields big blue catfish, and sea bass, porgies and triggerfish are biting on the offshore wrecks.

Stripers pile in along the ocean beaches, boats join the action jigging metals and swim shads, and bluefin tuna blitz beneath birds from 2 to 10 miles offshore.

Stripers push south through the surf of IBSP, tautog fishing has been inconsistent, and bluefin tuna take paddletails and trolled ballyhoo close to the beaches.

Stripers pushing 30 inches and over pile into the shipping channels, and freshwater fishing is productive in lakes and Bay tributaries for crappie, bass, pickerel and perch.