Gator blues gorge on peanut bunker throughout the Sound, scup and sea bass fishing remains fantastic, and big bass take bunker chunks in deep water at night.

Stripers enjoy a baitfish buffet in the eastern Sound, scup and sea bass fill coolers for bottom fishermen, and double-digit bluefish take diamond jigs in deep water.

Sea bass hit Gulp- and squid-tipped bucktails in 30-foot depths, jumbo stripers take soft-plastic eels and live baits, and big bluefish crash on topwater plugs.

Big stripers remain in the Sound from the rips to the craggy shores, bluefish take everything from pencil poppers to diamond jigs, and bottom fishing yields jumbo porgies and nice black sea bass.

Bluefish are stacked up and hitting diamond jigs around the reefs, big bass hit 3-wayed eels and bunker out front, and scup fill the void for sea bass and fluke anglers.

Big stripers eat eels, bunker and topwater plugs in shallow, bluefish remain in the deep rips of the Sound, and fluke fishing has been on and off in 30-foot depths.

Bluefish are stacked in the rips of the eastern Sound, 40-pound stripers hit eels, topwaters and soft plastics, and scup provide fast light-tackle jigging action.

More and more bluefish arrive in the Sound with cow stripers in tow, meanwhile, anglers fishing bottom enjoy abundant scup and quality fluke.

More bunker flood the Sound with gator bluefish in tow, fluke fishing is productive around 40 feet, and stripers hit topwater plugs and flutter spoons around bunker schools.

Fluke fishing improves in 25- to 40-foot depths, cow stripers hit live bunker and large topwaters and bluefish linger in the Western Sound as porgies move shallow.