Re: Bass
I caught a ton of fish in fall 2011. Yes, it was the "southern" bite that year. I caught 24 bass on one trip, keeping 2. Spring '12 was an early bite, caught 10 bass on a trip in march. Landed a handful of big bass last spring. This year made it out once and got skunked.
These are migratory fish, but they come home to spawn. The Hudson is a big spawning ground, but the Chesapeake is by far the the big kahuna. Nothing comes close it is striper spawning heaven.
It is estimated their are 50 million or more stripers in the ocean. But it is a very big pond. Who knows where they go, except when they spawn.
The raritan bay had a good spring. The Chesapeake had a good spring. For some reason the jersey coast sucks this year. They went somewhere else after the spawn. Who knows why. But I doubt we killed 50 million fish last year even if we caught 1000 a day. The math doesn't work and the fish showed up where they spawn in the usual numbers. Maybe sandy did something to the underwater structure, but more likely a lot of bait outside 3 miles.
In any event I am not panicking yet.
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