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Originally Posted by Billfish715
After seeing the water temps beginning to rise into the high 70's and with a heat wave arriving this week, expect to see more dead bunkers in the rivers. Any additional runoff from rainfall will only expedite the algae bloom and the consequential fish kill.
By the way, there are miles of bunkers in the ocean. We saw huge schools in areas from southern Monmouth County to Rockaway, N.Y. That is quite a spread.
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I would have thought it was a water temp/quality issue but I don’t think that was the case. Healthy schools both E / W and N of Earle the last 3 days. Almost looked like dumped old bait the way they were rashed up but way too many floating for that to be the case.