On The Water

On The Water is a monthly magazine in the United States that focuses on fishing and boating, addressing both freshwater and saltwater subjects. Most of the content comes from freelance writers, who are often local anglers and charter-boat operators. The magazine is available in three different editions: one for New England, another for New York, and a third for New Jersey.

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Striper Migration Map – May 23, 2025 - On The Water

2 weeks ago | onthewater.com | Jimmy Fee

A nor’easter, the new moon, and big stripers spread out from New Jersey to Boston. There’s lots happening to get the stripers moving as we go into Memorial Day weekend. The Striper Cup has begun! Sign up today, and you’ll receive a Striper Cup box loaded with stickers, discount codes, a Rapala lure, VMC Hooks, and a fresh, new Columbia PFG shirt featuring an awesome original striper design.
The Bluefin Tuna Calendar

2 weeks ago | onthewater.com | Matt Haeffner

Over the course of a season, Northeast captains catch bluefin from the edge of the continental shelf 70-plus miles offshore to just off the beach, in clear view of surfcasters. They catch them by trolling, jigging, casting topwaters, and drifting live bait. By the time the last captain washes down the boat after his final trip of the year, nine months will have passed since the first captain broke the inlet on an initial exploratory trip of the season.
Sandy Beach Soft Plastics

2 weeks ago | onthewater.com | Jerry Audet

When it comes to plugs, I believe the versatile ones, the plugs that can do as many different things as possible, are the best. My reasons could fill up a book, but they actually come down to two essentials. First, if a plug is versatile, I don’t have to carry as much on each trip—I don’t need 10 lures if one will cover everything I may encounter. Having a plug that can go top to bottom, slow to fast, and passive to aggressive is an asset.
Circle Hooks for Eels

3 weeks ago | onthewater.com | Jimmy Fee

We’re five years into the mandatory circle hook regulations for striped bass, and some fishermen are still working out their favorites for certain baits. A natural bait commonly used for striped bass are live eels. They are readily available at tackle shops, easily transportable on boats or from shore, and are a favorite of big stripers wherever they swim.
Featured Lure: Squid Jigs

1 month ago | onthewater.com | Jimmy Fee

Squid jigging is an art form. If you doubt it, put yourself in the lineup at one of docks where calamari-crazed fishermen huddle in the droning hum of their generators and the alien-green gleam of their HydroGlow lights. Watch the regulars. They’ll be the ones intently staring at their rods, making precise upward sweeps, filling their buckets at a much faster pace than you.
Best Squid Run in Years in Southern New England

1 month ago | onthewater.com | Jimmy Fee

Anthony DeiCicchi and I were marveling at the number and variety of baitfish attracted to our light as we shone it over a mid-Cape dock. An hour before, we’d fired up the generator and aimed the light at the water and watched as more baitfish schooled beneath us with each passing minute. And then the squid showed. Dozens of them ghosted up from the bottom, and began darting into the light to snatch baitfish with their tentacles.
Light-Tackle Tactics for Stripers on Silversides

1 month ago | onthewater.com | Matt Haeffner

My first cast with a Rebel Jumpin’ Minnow was a poor, tumbling mess. Yet, somehow, it splashed down in the strike zone off the starboard side of the bow and “jumped” only when a schoolie striper tail-whacked it two feet into the air as if to say, “That’s not what we’re eating this morning, stupid.”It was the first weekend of May—a prime time to explore the many nooks and crannies of northern Buzzards Bay.
Angling Artist: Brian Connor

1 month ago | onthewater.com | Matt Haeffner

Like many surfcasters, Brian Connor has been doling out Benjamins to his favorite plug builders for years. However, the born-and-raised Long Islander is a craftsman himself. Rather than whittle away his spending money on custom-made striper baits, he instead turned to his own lathe to restock the plug bag in 2019. Since then, his hobby has blossomed into his profession, which led him to start Hamlet Woodcraft.
Striper Migration Map - April 18, 2025

1 month ago | onthewater.com | Jimmy Fee

The big news this week was the arrival of migratory schoolies in Rhode Island. The full moon tides brought big bass into the Raritan, and bunker are drawing stripers out along the South Shore of Long Island. The Striper Cup starts in two weeks! Sign up today, and you’ll receive a Striper Cup box loaded with stickers, discount codes, a Rapala lure, VMC Hooks, and a fresh, new Columbia PFG shirt featuring an awesome original striper design.
NOAA Cracks Down on Pier-Based Tuna Fishing - Pier Anglers Fight for Access

1 month ago | onthewater.com | Jimmy Fee

Last week’s wild bluefin blitz close to the beach in Nag’s Head, North Carolina, during which multiple tuna were hooked from the end of Jenette’s Pier, has attracted the attention of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which manages the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna fishery through the Highly Migratory Species Management Division.