Wouldn't be sooooprized to find ya have a bit of an early, perhaps shorter, Striper season Rich, what with the warmer weather.
Good luck out there.

Last year looked exactly like this upcoming season. The river was ice free and temperatures steadily increasing with not much northern snow melt.
Last season was very, very strange as things were looking great.
Herring were in small waves making live bait fishing hit and miss. If a wave of herring came through you caught striper but the waves were few and far between.
The upper river never really loaded up.
We caught a few stripers on cut bait in last 2 weeks of April, the a big push of herring first week in may then totally dead 10 days later.
Myself and charter boats pulled out by second week of May.
I'm hoping this year given like conditions isn't a repeat.
If the river remains clear giving sunlight to penetrate and increase temperature, they don't stick around very long up here

 Read your last line,  reminded me of a similar experience wherein it came together quicker but fish had already started to drop back even when some bait was still running in.
Low for better results ??
Whatever, you always seem to find them- nice ones too.

Buckle up. Something that cost 5 dollars yesterday in a store was a dollar more today, fact. Watch the 23-25 second mark from last nights nation address. All our public entertainment has been shut down.

Its time to go fishing before there are no more fish in the sea

bumping elbows with fish is a lot more fun than wearing masks in crowds.

A sure sign of Spring, the little red wigglers are out on my driveway after last nights rainfall.

xxx

Hey- I got a census form in the mail the other day asking me to call some phone number to complete it.
Frankly I don't trust anything in this everyone doing some kinda scam era.
 Kinda don't like calling some number with what may be personal info.
 so its sitting in a pile of bills lol.
At the same time am seeing on the news that they are hiring people to go door to door doing the census.
Might not talk to some pre unemployed scruffy door knocker either,
 
Whatever happened to fill this out and return on the US GOVT return pre stamped  included envelope ??

My census flyer arrived in the mail last week.  My wife went online as instructed and it took a few minutes to complete. 
 

Deli owner here in Ct is giving a FREE roll of toilet paper with each grinder.