FISHERMEN/Capt. Ron

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Originally Posted by lingding

Captain Rn gets and "A" for honesty and the same for effort-thats why they call it fishing and not caching.

I think bait is the problem- grass shrimp, killies and even asin crab population is lower than normal. I see it, cause I have been walking the creeks my whole life. LI sound seems to have a better fluke fishery than I can ever remember, - and that body of water was largely insulated from Sandy. -something to think about.

That might explain lack of fish in the rivers and estuaries.. I would think most fluke that stay in the deep channels of the open bays, and the fluke that stay in the ocean see and eat very few killies and grass shrimp.. When they are small sure, but the open water fluke probably eat stuff like sand eels, small herring like fish species, juvenile bottom fish,mullets, snappers etc.. again, I could be wrong, I am not an expert, but my eyes tell me that the pressure on all our inshore species is just getting insane... Every year we are lamenting the lack of consistency in all our inshore fishing, and every year there are more and more boats fishing the same inshore areas... bob