Walleye and musky are hitting well as water temperatures drop and fish begin to put on fat for the winter.

Striped bass are sticking around and feeding on peanut bunker and mackerel along the surface, while offshore, the bluefin bite remains strong with halfbeaks now a factor.

Stripers bite at night in the back bays, while during the day the bays fish well for bluefish, fluke, puffers and weakfish.

Albies are biting around the inlets and beaches, meanwhile the back bays hold quality fluke and weakfish.

Albies are in casting reach from shore, larger stripers are hitting jigs in the Canal, and snapper bluefish appear en masse across south Cape.

Bottom fishing in the Sound yields sea bass, scup, fluke and triggerfish, while slot bass and albies entertain the masses on the surface.

Tautog fishing is good, bass and blues chase bait in the bay, and albies and bonito provide light tackle excitement by boat and from shore.

Stripers are pushing peanut bunker in close and often within casting distance of the shoreline.

While warm weather has slowed the action for staging salmon and trout, the bass, carp, and walleye are still cooperating.

Fluking is good as the season's end nears, while hardtails become more active along ocean beaches in the early morning.