If you wish to take a striper on light tackle, the time could not be more ripe. There is an area off Chatham that is now about 5 miles long and it is full of bass, They are on the smallish side, about 27 to 35 inches, but there is a slew of them ! They are in the rips also. We have been getting them on any tide south, north or slack, and I hear they are like that on the west side of the Island too. For the experienced or novice, it doesn't get any better than this. Capt. Bruce