Deep-dwelling sea bass and porgies bite for bottom fishermen, stripers chase bait beneath birds in the middle Bay, and pickerel and catfish are active in the rivers.

Bottom fishing yields sea bass, scup and ling cod, holdover stripers are chewing in the rivers, and freshwater anglers catch trout, salmon, bass and perch.

Tautog, cod and sea bass transition to deeper structure, holdover stripers are active in the backwaters, and sweetwater anglers enjoy good fishing for largemouth bass and trout.

Tautog fishing is hit or miss on the wreck and reef sites, stripers take bucktails and minnow plugs off the beaches, and midshore migrating bluefin are caught on jigs and poppers.

The final week of Great Lakes musky season is here, and this is the best time to be out there if you want to try and catch a trophy fish.

Tog fishing has been hit or miss and the surf has scattered striper action as bass move slightly offshore, where bluefin tuna are taking trolled ballyhoos.

The blackfish bite holds strong in the Sound and the NY Bight, bluefin crash through bait schools near shore and offshore wreck trips yield a mixed bag of cod, sea bass and more.

Tautog are still feeding as they migrate onto offshore wintering grounds, while in freshwater, bass, pike and trout are keeping anglers’ lines tight.

The recent rainfall over the last couple of weeks has bumped up the flows in streams, producing good brown trout and steelhead action.

Mackerel are thick in the east end of the Canal where some schoolie stripers are being caught on jigs, and trout and bass take various live baits and suspending jerkbaits in the ponds.