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Marisol Duarte
Zone Writer · Raritan Bay / Sandy Hook
Marisol Duarte grew up on the Perth Amboy waterfront, where her father taught her the bay before she could ride a bike. When the April bunker schools push into Raritan Bay and the big stripers follow, Marisol has usually called the first blitz within a tide — and she'll tell you exactly which channel edge the fluke set up on when the run winds down.
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Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook, Keyport, the Highlands, Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers, Flynn's Knoll, Romer Shoal
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New moon springs load up the Hook — stripers on the sunset flood, fluke bail out of the bay
Hot bay water pushed the doormats to the channels while building springs set up the best low-light striper window since June's full moon.
Raritan Bay / Sandy Hook
New moon springs load up the Rip as fluke abandon the baking bay for the Hook Channels
Bay water pushing 78 degrees has fluke stacking in Ambrose and Chapel Hill Channel while stripers wait on the sunset flood at Romer Shoal.