The stripers have finally returned to the Western end of the Long Island Sound (on the NY/CT border). I went out on  my boat at 5AM this morning, snagged up a dozen bunker deep in Greenwich Harbor (in Greenwich, CT) and lived them along the shoreline of Greenwich shoreline....and landed these two nice 15 pounders both within 50 feet of land...in less than 4 feet of water....the stripers both came up and slapped the bunker  then came back around and gulped them whole...both put  up nice fights.....and as always  I tagged and released both fish. Two Greenwich Harbor Policemen were out in their patrol boat this morning and were kind enough to pull up along side me and take the photo !!!!!!!!!

I caught both these fish on a Penn 4600L Slammer Live  Liner reel on a 7' Penn Power Stick Spinning Rod....and I was wearing my lucky PENN tee-shirt !!!!!!!!! I LOVE Penn products (and so do my 2 kids...Laura who is 14 and Richard who is 11).

Joe DeMarte