Striper Hot Spots--Mid Atlantic: The Surfcasting Locations from North Carolina to Connecticut

by Frank Daignault

Overview

This book documents the best striped-bass fishing spots for the Mid Atlantic surfcaster from North Carolina's Outer Banks through the east end of Connecticut, and includes such prime locates as Hatteras, Assateague National Seashore, Pennsylvania's lower and upper Delaware, Cape May Point, Island Beach State Park, Montauk, Orient Point, Hudson River locates, the Thames and Housatonic Rivers, and many more. Tackle and technique specific to each area is covered in full.

Striper Hot Spots - Mid-Atlantic is a fully revised, updated, and expanded book drawn from Daignault's original Striper Hot Spots. For New England locations please see the companion volume. Striper Hot Spots - New England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580801645
Publisher:	Burford Books
Publication date:	12/16/2010
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

How the Spots Rate for Fishing 1-5 xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xxi

North Carolina

Map 1

1 Okracoke Inlet 7

2 Hatteras Inlet 8

3 Cape Point at Buxton 10

4 Oregon Inlet 13

5 Pamlico Sound Shallows 14

6 Outer Banks Fishing Piers 17

7 Hatteras Open Beach 19

The Delmarva Peninsula

Map 23

8 Assateague Island National Seashore 27

9 Assateague Barrier Islands 31

10 Ocean City Potpourri 33

11 Indian River Inlet 35

12 Delaware State Parks 37

Pennsylvania

Map 39

13 Lower Delaware River 45

14 Schuylkill River 46

15 Upper Delaware River (above tidewater) 48

New Jersey

Map 51

Nuances of Jetties 55

16 New Jersey Saltwater Fishing Piers 58

17 Cape May Point 60

18 Hereford Inlet 62

19 Townsend's Inlet 63

20 Corson's Inlet (Strathmere Inlet) 65

21 Great Egg Harbor 67

22 Absecon Inlet Plus 68

23 Graveling Point (Radio Road approach) 70

24 Mystic Islands 72

25 Brigantine Inlet 73

26 Beach Haven Inlet (Hole Gate) 75

27 Long Beach Island 76

28 Barnegat Inlet South Jetty 77

29 Barnegat Inlet North Jetty 79

30 Sedge Island 81

31 Island Beach 83

32 Point Pleasant Canal 91

33 Brick Beach 92

34 Manasquan Inlet 94

35 Shark River Inlet 96

36 Manasquan to Long Branch 97

37 Sandy Hook Point 101

38 Lighthouse Bay 103

New York

Map 105

39 Piermont Pier 109

40 Croton Bay 110

41 Troy Dam 112

42 Manhattan Fishing Accesses 114

43 Breezy Point 119

44 Silver Point/Long Beach 122

45 Point Lookout 123

46 Jones Inlet (West End 2) 124

47 Captree State Park 126

48 Fire Island 127

49 Moriches Inlet 129

50 Shinnecock Inlet 131

51 Nepeague Beach 133

52 Montauk Point (Long Island) 134

53 Orient Point 142

54 Long Island North Shore 144

55 Sunken Meadow State Park 145

56 Long Island Power Authority Power Station (LILCO) 147

Connecticut

Map 149

57 Calf Pasture Point and Town Pier 153

58 Cedar Point and Compo Beach 154

59 Penfield Reef 156

60 Saint Mary's Beach, Ash Creek, and Henry J. Moore Fishing Pier 157

61 Housatonic River 159

62 Silver Sands State Park (Charles Island) 161

63 Enfield Dam 163

64 Hammonasset Beach State Park 164

65 Cornfield Point 165

66 Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Marine Headquarters 167

67 Sound View Beach 168

68 Niantic River 169

69 Harkness Memorial State Park 171

70 Thames River 173

71 Bluff Point State Park 175

Inlets: Where Stripers Prowl 179

Pick of the Month 185

Best in Species 187

Usual and Customary Requirements for an Over-sand Vehicle 189