Fall Striper and Walleye Bite Heats Up on the Hudson River

Artificial Lure here with your Hudson River fishing report for Tuesday, November 18, 2025. It’s crisp out this morning, typical for late November in New York City, with an overcast sky, light northwesterly winds, and temperatures starting in the lower 40s. Sunrise came at 6:47AM, and sunset will be at 4:37PM for your planning, giving you those short fall windows to hit the tide just right. Tidal movement is key right now. According to the Croton-on-Hudson chart, we had a low tide early this morning around 7:37AM, with the next high tide coming just after lunch at 1:35PM, reaching 3.18 feet. Another low hits at 8:42PM. That midday incoming tide should fish well, especially if you get out of work for a long lunch or can shift your plans[Today's Best Fishing and Tide Times for Croton-on-Hudson]. Fish activity is picking up in the cold weather, especially with stripers still pushing bait around city piers, and lately, the word among local anglers is schoolie striped bass showing in decent numbers along with bigger fish reported upriver closer to Tarrytown and Croton Bay. OnTheWater mentions a 2025 fall run still going strong: boaters and shore anglers are both tangling with bass, particularly around dawn and dusk[On The Water]. The deep holes around Haverstraw Bay and the current seams by the George Washington Bridge have produced a mix of keeper stripers and some healthy throwbacks, with a handful of 20–25 pounders landed over the weekend. Mixed in, city regulars are picking up schoolie bass to 25” and the odd channel cat or white perch. Walleye fishing is also steady north of the city, especially up around Sleepy Hollow and Croton, with anglers pulling fish from 8-15 feet — the deeper weed edges and near drop-offs hold your best shot. According to Wired2Fish, late-fall walleye in rivers are most active near dusk, and jigging with a 1/8 or 1/4 oz jig and a half-nightcrawler or a lively minnow works wonders this time of year[Wired2Fish]. Try gold, chartreuse, or classic perch pattern jigs. For stripers, best lures have been 5- to 7-inch soft plastics on jigheads, white or bunker-color, and metal lip swimmers if the water is choppy. For live bait, fresh chunked bunker or bloodworms are your best bet. Don’t rule out diamond jigs or bucktails bounced slow along the bottom during moving water. Topwater action is mostly over till spring except for the diehards tossing spooks at first light, but the prime bite is mid-column and bottom bouncing right now. Word from the dock at the 79th Street Boat Basin is that shad darts tipped with worms are scoring bonus white perch, and a few late-holdover hickory shad turned up last night. Hot spots to check today: - **Piermont Pier** — remaining productive for land-based stripers, especially two hours into the flood tide. - **Croton Bay outflows** — prime for both shore and small-boat fishing, with stripers and walleye stacked up at the drop-offs. - **Haverstraw Bay** — best for boaters focusing on depth ch This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.