As with all fish, The right conditions must be in place for them to migrate,feed and breed. Right now the water temp. is not what you would consider "ideal". There are fish being caught and there is baitfish but the "bite" is just not here yet.
In my opinion...Irene stired up alot of the waters from hundreds of miles away. We had a killer fluke run up here in shb,after irene, Zip. I think it stirred it up a little more then we all think and it will take time for it all to settle back down.
If you look back a few years, we had a good striper run around this time not that we dont havem now just not as thick. Plus we had a good spring run..Matter of fact we had a great run of many fish,till irene.
Like i said thats my opinion. In time we will have that famous fall striper run maybe bring the record back to "dirty jersey"