I'm back home and started off much better then 2017.

Sweet! Looks like a great start to the boating season! 

Awesome HT, congratulations on a dandy catch. Wiper hunters around these here parts of Penn's Woods be drooling over those pictures.

Gotta git, need to wipe the slobber off my phone. lol.

Now that is the way to get it start. Here is to its continuation.

Can those brutes be hooked on fly tackle in those waters?

We ended up with 5 stripers.
2 were in the slot of 28-40" and released. The others 28 and under are being eaten, as I type and the remaining will be soon.

Jack, it's possible and I have before. The probability is very small. All the fish I've put over the rail or my friends and family did this weekend were on bait. Herring or blood worms. Bait is now the focus, we bought frozen and cut it up. We couldn't catch any bait.

It's just the start of a great season. If the rain stays away, the fishing will be off the charts. My friends are residents of the river every day until the fish leave late May

Great  start, HT!  Jack, as you know, I've caught thousands of stripers on the fly, but only one from the Hudson and that took a night trip on a flat farther south of HT in my kayak. The Hudson is too deep and murky, even using 12" herring patterns and t-17 shooting heads  with a mono running line that works in ocean rips. There's a few flats, but they are inaccessible from shore. Long Beach Island  has fish  right now, so does the Susquehanna Flats  if you know someone with a Center Console.   I've got 4 weekends booked at campgrounds starting 5/18 on the coast. Can't wait.  Good luck with some cows, HT. 

Thanks Charlie. Huge swing from only catching 1 fish all last season. The river is a muddy one. Far better looking conditions this season. Don't get me wrong, it's ugly out there but fishable so far and ahead.
Bait is scarce, good and bad. If you got it it's candy to the fish right now. If you don't, then your just out for a boat ride.
The other flip is when it's stupid with herring, your just 1 of thousands.
Next sail, Wednesday

3 over the rail in 2.5 hrs tonight.
Only going to get better.

You're the man!  I feel a 50 lb cow coming your way.