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Old 01-28-2013, 05:31 PM
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Default Re: Think we will see Whiting in our lifetime?

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Originally Posted by Knot Guilty
The only thing wrong with winter flounders is the season and bag limits.
So you're saying the bays, rivers, tidal creeks are full of flounder of all sizes?, as they were all my life, until maybe 20 years ago?..

If I fished off the wall at Shark River or off Shore in the Shrewbury River, or the beach of Raritan Bay with sandworms, I can still catch a few dozen??.. As someone that used to fish for winter flounder a LOT, I find that pretty hard to believe.. It was nothing to catch a 5 gallon bucket of them in a few hours 100 yards from shore in Union Beach when I lived there.. Same thing with the Shrewsbury. I have a difficult time believing they are still around in those kind of numbers..
Hey, you guys still live there of course, and I moved away in the early 90's... maybe things have changed, but even in the 90's I noticed the catch sizes were shrinking each year... If I am wrong, I defer to the locals to set me straight on the numbers... bob