Latest map: October 5, 2026

Striped Bass Migration Tracker

Where the stripers are right now, from Maine to Florida. We score every fishing report that mentions striped bass, stripers or rockfish, then map the result. New maps go up while the run is on, and the old ones stay below, so you can watch it move down the coast instead of guessing where it got to.

Striped bass activity by state for the week of October 5, 2026 — Week of October 5, 2026

State by state, north to south

Scored from every saltwater striped bass report we collected in the last 14 days. 12 of 16 coastal states are currently reporting stripers.

State	Status	Where	Reports	Latest
Maine	Active	Gulf of Maine	8	Oct 7
New Hampshire	Active	Gulf of Maine (NH coast)	7	Oct 6
Massachusetts	Active	Buzzards Bay & Vineyard Sound, Cape Cod Bay	21	Oct 8
Rhode Island	Active	Narragansett Bay	10	Oct 7
Connecticut	Active	Long Island Sound	11	Oct 7
New York	Hot	Long Island & Montauk	11	Oct 7
New Jersey	Hot	Delaware Bay (NJ side), Jersey Shore, Raritan Bay & Sandy Hook	65	Oct 8
Pennsylvania	No striper reports	—	—	—
Delaware	Active	Delaware Bay	9	Oct 7
Maryland	Slow	Chesapeake Bay	1	Sep 30
District of Columbia	No striper reports	—	—	—
Virginia	Active	Eastern Shore (Chincoteague), Chesapeake mouth	31	Oct 7
North Carolina	Slow	Pamlico Sound & Cape Lookout	1	Sep 29
South Carolina	No striper reports	—	—	—
Georgia	Slow	Georgia Atlantic Coast	3	Oct 2
Florida	No striper reports	—	—	—

“No striper reports” means nobody we collect from mentioned striped bass in that state’s salt water this fortnight. It does not mean the fish are not there. It means we have nothing to show you, and we would rather say so than draw an empty map and call it data.

Inland striper fisheries

Striped bass are stocked in reservoirs well away from the coast, and those fish do not migrate. They are kept out of the table above so it stays a picture of the coastal run, but they are fishing, and here is where they are biting.

SlowMaineKennebec & Penobscot
SlowNew JerseyDelaware River & Pine Barrens
SlowMarylandPotomac & Patapsco

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How this is built

Every fishing report we collect is scanned for striped bass, stripers and rockfish. A report that tags the species with a condition (“hot”, “slow”) scores on that condition; a report that only mentions the fish in passing counts as presence, weakly. The strongest report in a state sets that state’s color.

We do not model the migration or predict where the fish will be next week. This is a picture of what anglers and shops actually reported, which is a smaller claim and one we can stand behind.

Live status last read October 8, 2026.

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