Striper

Two important sets of public meetings will be conducted during the upcoming weeks, topics which will impact recreational saltwater fishing along the Jersey shore.

And just like that, it’s once again legal to fish for striped bass in the bays and tidal rivers and creeks.

The beyond-eagerly anticipated ringneck pheasant season commences at 8 am Saturday.

It’s the two-to-three week period when a whitetail buck goes lust loco, puts caution in the wind as he eagerly sniffs for receptive does and becomes, for lack of a better description, downright dumb.

The long-anticipated return of autumn weather, with its chilling of the salty waters, has jump-started the autumn migration of that most prized gamefish: the striped bass.