Coastal Mid-Atlantic Fishing Report, January 7 Update:
Welcome to 2022 anglers! As the new year dawns we have plenty of fishing opportunities despite the chill in the air, and for coastal anglers the first bite of note comes in the form of oceanic winter stripers. Lots of them, and big ones, too. We received multiple reader reports over the holiday and into the first week of the year of 40-inch-plus oceanic stripers, including many on the shoals off Ocean City within the three-mile limit. But all reports were pre-storm and since the unsettled weather we heard from a reader who couldn’t locate the fish.
Boats hitting the wrecks, meanwhile, are shifting gears with sea bass now closed and mostly targeting tog. Capt. Monty on the Morning Star reports that blues from two to five pounds are also on the wrecks from Maryland down through Virginia, and we heard one (unconfirmed) crazy catch type of report this week: a mako was accidentally hooked by a wreck-fishing angler when it attacked a fish on the line.
