Deep south Tautogs 12/2/24

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Originally Posted by Broad Bill

Jmurr thanks for your reply, makes sense. So it's not necessarily the water temp itself, it's the invasion of dogfish and stripers accompanied with the water temps and in the case of stripers their annual migration. Stripers migrate north south, not sure about dogfish but I would assume for the same reason their migration will have the same impacts eventually on black fishing up and down the coast and south of us when the water temperatures drop. What's strange about that is I remember years long gone when we had fantastic black fishing and striper fishing at the same time. Dogfish on the other hand are a completely different issue and I can see any other fish "hiding" to avoid being their next meal. Dog fish are the equivalent of cormorants, protected, overabundant and destructive to all other species.

Water temps dropped a few degrees before our Sunday trip .
Scratchy bite in AM with no dogs around .
Mid day water warmed a tad and it was insane dogfish every drop .
Fish aren’t coming out to chew unless they are solid roaster size , that dogfish aren’t bothering .

Was video taken recently on the jetty’s , Was crazy how many tog are still in super shallow water .

I hope to see a much better bite after these next two weeks of much cooler nights