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golver, I'm on the other side of you from MJ in Long Island Sound.

Flounder will come in April and May. We use sandworms (mean little f*ckers that will bite you if you give them the chance), 2 oz weight to get them on the bottom and flounder hooks. Some corn in a chumpot won't hurt either. Gravelly bottoms work well around here. I anchor, but some drift. Kind of boring but it's fishing!

Bass will be around beginning in May. Sandworms work for these guys too. So do bucktail jigs, rattle traps and diamond jigs. Use the lures around structure. A local bait shop should be able to recommend some places too. These fellows will be around 'till fall. Bass fishing at night is great and you can live line bunker for them.

BLues start showing up in June. We use bunker chunks on the bottom. Get a thing called a "fish finder" which is a weight holder that slides on your line for presentation and use steel leaders. Bunker might be called something different there. Blues are good through September here. By mid summer these guys will be feeding on the surface and you can throw poppers or rattle traps to them and hang on! Look for birds diving on the splashing schools.

I'm sure others here will have lots of other ideas. This is just what I do most.

MJ, do you not have flounder there? Or is it a terminology thing? We do have fluke here too.