Big schools of bunker (menhaden) have made a comeback and fuel big-bass bites from the Jersey Shore to Long Island and from Mass Bay to Maine.

Designed with casting distance in mind, this Nantucket-born topwater lure tempts bass, blues, and albies.

The colliding currents, big boulders, and sand beaches at the end of Long Island become a striped-bass playground from early summer to late fall.