Holdover Stripers on Long Island?

Heard they get them over by the power plants. Back of Manhasset I think and over by LIPA plant. Never tried it myself.
 
mattbrodericklifishing said:
Those plants don't produce enough warm water to hold Stripers. Northport used to but they run it at a fraction of what they used to years ago. That place was a hotspot. Most tidal creeks will hold some holdovers. They can just be a little dormant until the water hits the right temps from what I've seen.
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Yeah from what I understand that is the case. I've had fish in the creeks around this time of the year, but never January & Feb. I suspect they are there but dormant like you said
 
Power plants as others said above, caught bass up until the end of January in the usual fall spots some years though. I suppose sometimes if there's enough bait they'll stick around longer than usually willing.
 
South Shore Bays, North Shore Bays, a lot of non-migrating bass, but as others have mentioned, when the water temps drop past a certain level, they go into a kind of dormant state. I remember years ago, we had 3 days in the 70's right at the beginning of March. That 3rd night I cast small lead heads with a friend at the Smith Point bridge and caught a bunch of bass but nothing over maybe 15 inches. When they were rebuilding the 3rd Wantagh bridge, one of the inspectors (who dived) said they were all around the pilings, but dormant, this was in Feb.
 
richtrox said:
South Shore Bays, North Shore Bays, a lot of non-migrating bass, but as others have mentioned, when the water temps drop past a certain level, they go into a kind of dormant state. I remember years ago, we had 3 days in the 70's right at the beginning of March. That 3rd night I cast small lead heads with a friend at the Smith Point bridge and caught a bunch of bass but nothing over maybe 15 inches. When they were rebuilding the 3rd Wantagh bridge, one of the inspectors (who dived) said they were all around the pilings, but dormant, this was in Feb.
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Interesting. I assume any bass that make their way into shallower brackish areas that might heat up quicker may be more active than those bass found around the deeper waters around the bridges.
 
Striper_Sniper12 said:
Interesting. I assume any bass that make their way into shallower brackish areas that might heat up quicker may be more active than those bass found around the deeper waters around the bridges.
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That is a reasonable assumption. In the spring, my early bites have always happened in the evening, after a nice warm sunny day, on an outgoing tide, typically in channels near areas of shallow mud flats. These warm up the quickest and kick the food chain into motion.
 
Start looking in mid-April, but with the stocks so lean, it's catch as catch can. Used to be tons of them in deep in the west end bays.
 
richtrox said:
That is a reasonable assumption. In the spring, my early bites have always happened in the evening, after a nice warm sunny day, on an outgoing tide, typically in channels near areas of shallow mud flats. These warm up the quickest and kick the food chain into motion.
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This exactly why LNB near me traditionally is the earliest first showing of serious schoolies each season. then as water warms, much bigger fish show . this is mostly on artficials. some people use bunker, fresh herring if they can get them and the killer sand worm snakes. the tides this week are ideal through Thursday to go exploring. i just feel the water is going to be too dang cold. No reports from bros this weekend. I hope soon though for them to start chewing . WE need sunshine big time. CIAO, John.
 
I’d be interested to see if it starts earlier this year then the last few years. There is a decent amount of snow still on the ground. I’m sure that cold water runoff has to have some impact.
 
BennyV said:
I’d be interested to see if it starts earlier this year then the last few years. There is a decent amount of snow still on the ground. I’m sure that cold water runoff has to have some impact.
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Absolutely. I think it will start later than many seasons we have had. Last spring the water was icy cold. I revisited Fred Golofaro's report for April 12, 2018,Week of the Striped bass opener. said some temps were in 20's and snow and skim ice? a few bass started showing up in LNB by April 5th. one flounder report showed guy skunked showing water temp on his fish finder 39.5 degrees. But real highlight was Crabby catching 1st flounder of the season of Captree Party Boat season on April 11 on Island Princess . Check it out. :love:?? Joe, did u win a boat pool and the dock pool$$. :p? revisit my post 2019 Western Sound Spring Bass Run. CIAO, John.
 
I usually found them active deep in the bay around the 3rd week in April. But if it's been really cold and the water is still really cold, they will be lethargic or sleepy. You need to get the food chain going and that needs the warmth of the sun. And btw, the best of this action was well over a decade ago. The stocks have been steadily dropping during that time and after hurricane Sandy, the spring bay bite really dropped off. My conclusion, and that of some of my friends, was that the whole food chain (grass shrimp, yoy white bait, etc) was simply washed out of the bays, so no point for the bass to be there. As I haven't lived there for 5 years nows, I can't speak from personal experience as to whether the bay recovered sufficiently to keep hold over (non-migrating) bass. My information is mostly second hand, albiet from people who are pretty good fishermen. I hope you guys can find some. It was always nice to shake off the winter rust with a couple weeks of night fishing for 20-26" bass, before the bigger fish show up.
 
I got them on the Nissequogue around Easter one year fishing for Flounder. Schoolies around 12". Didn't catch any flounder but they were hitting the flounder rig two at a time over & over. Made for a great afternoon.

Got to the point that I crushed the barbs on the rig. Must have hooked a couple of dozen easily....................
 
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