Hudson River Spring Stripers: Pre-Dawn Bite with Stable Conditions and Strong Tide Windows

About this episode

This episode discusses the current fishing conditions for striped bass in the Hudson River during spring.

This is Artificial Lure with your Hudson River fishing report for the pre-dawn bite around New York City. We’re sitting on a cool, stable spring pattern. Overnight temps dipped into the upper 50s, climbing into the upper 60s to low 70s with light northwest wind around 5–10 knots. Skies are mostly clear with passing clouds, and barometric pressure is steady to slightly rising—good conditions for a consistent chew. Sunrise is right around 5:30 a.m., sunset about 8:10 p.m., giving you a long window to work the moving water. Tide-wise, the river’s running its typical mixed semidiurnal cycle. Around the Battery and lower Hudson, we’ve got an early morning incoming tide that tops off mid-morning, then ebbing hard through early afternoon. Up by the George Washington Bridge, that push lags by roughly an hour. The best striper action has been bracketing the turn—last two hours of the flood and first two of the ebb—when current is strong enough to set up rips but not so cranked that your gear drags. Striped bass are still the main story, though the peak migration is easing off. Local reports from pier regulars and party boats say a solid mix of schoolies with a decent shot at keeper fish…

Topics covered

• fishing
• Hudson River
• striped bass
• tide patterns
• New York City
• spring fishing

Keywords

• Hudson River
• striped bass
• fishing report
• tide
• New York City
• spring
• pre-dawn bite

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New York City, Hudson River, George Washington Bridge, Battery

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