Winter mackerel! The Good ol Days!

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Originally Posted by bulletbob

Disagree.. Years ago in the 60's-70's-80's there were Bluefins around, a lot more than today-yet the mackerel were always there dependably, every year, year after year.. Same as Blues.. Nowadays, Blues are netted, and sold as food, just like Macks... I see Blues up here all the time, year round,on ice, in large supermarkets, selling for ridiculous prices, yet they are always there so someone is buying and eating them.. Years ago Blues were eaten mostly by the guys that caught them.. Today, they are a market fish, and people that don't fish are eating them.. If people will et them, people will go catch and sell them.. Its only my uneducated opinion of course, but i feel the reason we don't see near as many blues these days is not a natural or environmental issue. Its because there is money to be made by catching them in nets and selling them.. Yes, Bluefins eat blues, but they always ate hem, and they were both plentiful. When salt water fish species disappear, in most cases its because someone somewhere likes to eat them and will pay for the privilege . bob

Bob you honestly have NO IDEA what’s going on here with our fisheries currently .
Everytime you post many of us laugh , as we are on the water daily , and you haven’t fished here in what decades ?
The amount of giants staying in our waters for approximately 9 months out of the year hasn’t happened before .
Sure there were bluefin here , but not GIANTS in the sheer numbers being seen .

Just like your blackfish posts , about no way the bite would improve in colder water .
Yet if you actually followed the reports here (because you definitely were not fishing for them ) you would have seen when the water hit 50 the blackfish were chewing their heads off .

What happened here in the 80’s isn’t what’s going on here 45 years later .
Lots of guys here who are actually fishing ALOT, and see daily what’s going on .