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Originally Posted by duranautic al
Everything is MIA because the stripers are eating them all… winter flounder, ling numbers have all plummeted since the resurgence of the striped bass…time to start harvesting more of these behemoth killing machines
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Yeah, I don't buy that for a second.. Honestly, you think Stripers are the reason everything else is absent??.. For every Ling a Striper eats, I bet they eat 1,000 menhaden, herring, etc.. Predatory fish go for readily abundant, and easier to catch prey- always. They will grub and forage when they need to, not because they want to. Not to mention they are programmed by their Creator to have a preference for food thats more oily, fatty, denser in calories.
Most actively feeding Stripers will feed on abundant oily baitfish that are packed in dense schools before they will go rooting in the mud looking for flounder... Just my uneducated opinion for what little its worth...
