In my opinion, some of the best Fall striped Bass fishing in the Northeast takes place off New York’s Staten Island in the New York harbor from The Verrazano bridge up to the Hudson River.
Striper fishing has a long and storied history in the New York Harbor . There have been ups and downs over the years, with bounty tempered by scarcity, as well as every variation in between. Popular methods of catching New York’s linesides have changed as well, depending on the natural and sometimes man-created fluctuations in the region’s food chain.
Not long ago good striper fishing was hard to come by. After a series of ecological and manmade disasters in the 1970s, striper fishing had to be curtailed in order to save the species. By the late 1980s, there were reports of improved fishing for smaller fish, and by the mid-’90s, charter and party boats began turning their attention back to the popular game fish.