

When Kay of Surfland arrived to open the Newbury bait shop Wednesday morning, she found angler Bill Kendrek of Atkinson, N.H., waiting at the door, bass in hand.


Your striper of a lifetime could be your reward. Tie on a larger lure, fish a bigger bait, drop your line a little deeper, get out a little earlier, and stay out a little later. The biggest of the big, those huge female stripers that spawned in Chesapeake Bay this spring, have settled into New England waters and packed on all the weight they lost while preoccupied with procreation. Some striper fishermen bemoan the arrival of July’s hot weather and warming waters, which make the heady days of spring, when ravenous schools of migrating stripers tore through our waters, seem like the distant past.īut for anglers willing to adjust, July can make up for a decline in quantity with a chance at real quality.
