Good luck, youre going to need it. bait is darned near impossible. you will see plenty of fish in all the right places but they are extremely finicky and maybe they bite and maybe they dont. you will start the day with a couple short stripers, a smallmouth, a couple largemouth, and then you might hit a keeper...maybe on the keeper though.
the only thing i know for sure is you wont catch anything if you dont go.
p.s. snow bothers fishermen a lot more than it bothers stripers lol