Thanks Ron for the Honesty and nice to see a Professional Capt start the conversation most of us non professionals have been having. With your work effort if anyone will find them its you.
Possibly its a little bit of everything and cant argue the habitat was affected by Sandy. Another issue in a year like this is the lack of boats out on any given day from MI to the Hook. Some days you only pass 3 boats in 20 miles. the point being that in a year like this you figure someone even by dumb luck will stumble on a hot area but its a desert out there even on the nice days. maybe weekends excluded but weekdays for sure.
I think some NEW set of numbers for that said "hot" area or depth is going to have to be established through trial and error and be an area hardly ever fished or not fished in years for Fluke. the Fish have obviously moved somewhere to adapt to the new habitat, lack of bait etc and it may be new to all of us.
sad part is we probably overfished our quota already
