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Originally Posted by greenmeanie (Post 1129955)

I am guessing we should base it off of a couple of you guys not catching fish?

I think you are confused about who initiated that line of thinking.

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Originally Posted by l.i.fish.in.vt (Post 1129850)

after that i will be more than likely 6 feet under

I am thinking ahead for my kids, too.

unfortunetly mother natures plans are differant then ours

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Originally Posted by Duke41 (Post 1129702)

I fish primarily around Newport, Brenton Reef around Jamestown and off of Ocean Drive, Seal Rock etc. In the early 2000's I could always find fish doing a little spot hopping. The bay was full of acres and acres of blitzing bluefish. Over the years it has been more difficult to find stripers and most of the blues I see are smaller. Have not seen those types of huge blitz's in 10 years at least. Fishing in the fall we have had some excellent days fishing albies. A couple of times I found mixed schools of allies, bonito and stripers. Those days will go down as the best fishing I have ever had. The bay does seem to be full of bunker and anchovies I figure that has got to bode well for the future. Whales and dolphins off of Narragansett Beach, must be a good sign. Holding on for the future. I will tell you this. I started treating stripers like the valuable game fish they are and releasing 100%. I feel better doing my small part. No judgement though. They do last good for sure.

Only small bait (small sand eels, bay anchovies) in the Lower Bay throughout the year now. No reason for big fish to hang around, except maybe that jumbo loner feeding on small tog. Come Fall, when the pogies do finally drop out of the Bays /estuaries, the biomass of big bass has already passed by.

Those fish that go ballistic for 3 weeks in the canal...that IS the fall run for MA and most of RI. Once those fish blast through it's a crap shoot where they'll make landfall again, if they even do. Only one push now and then you're targeting small pods of stragglers until the end. It was nice 10 years ago when you could count on at least 2-3 major pushes of fish :wall:

It does make for great albie fishing, though, but I want bass from the rocks...

Originally Posted by Clammer View Post
for many years ,,,,,,,,,I felt that there was only one fish in the sea ...the Striped Bass.
I was so wrong ..I,ve been having a ball catching a varity of fish ,if you adjust your gear . then you have a whole new ballgame of trying to figure out the habits & patterns of other fishes ....For me it have been a great learning & humbling experience ......IMO ............. don't let the whole fishing adventure be consumed by the STRIPER ><><

Great advice! Just curious, in your case does that include bluefish? ;-)

The fish gods have granted my fish wish ,,,,,,I can honestly say that I have not caught a 1/2 bLOOOOOOOfish this season ><><

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Originally Posted by zimmy (Post 1129775)

And after that? Six of last eight Chesapeake yoy were below average and five of them way below. Better hope some 2011 and 2015 fish get to be big breeders or it isn't gonna be good.
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Interesting statistic from the Maryland DEM. This years YOY is the highest it has been in 64 years. It was 13.2

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Originally Posted by piemma (Post 1130099)

Interesting statistic from the Maryland DEM. This years YOY is the highest it has been in 64 years. It was 13.2

No, I am guessing you read that wrong.64 year average is 11.7. 2017 came in at 13.2, which is slightly above the 64 year average. Good news for sure, but not the highest in 64 years. That was 1996 with around a 59.

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Originally Posted by zimmy (Post 1130115)

The great spawning years of the 1990s raised the YOY average from 8.0 to 12.

Don't know about boats but the surf has been going down for at least 10 years, I've talked to fisherman from four states, NY, CT, RI, & MD and all agree. It's not one or two places gone bad but a steady decline everywhere.