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Originally Posted by ridler72

Great point. Never even thought about that.

I think we all feasted with the lack of fin bait, especially big fin bait, up and down New England from the 90's through the mid 2000's. Even when the Peanut Bunker showed strong in the early 2000's it was still great because they hung out in the waves, still keeping this inshore bite on, no matter what the population of Striped Bass.

Now, at least the waters I venture in, it's mostly the Mack and sea herring show, and for the inshore beach action and rocks, this sucks. It's epic when the action moves into a bay and if you are lucky to get in on it, it can be a feast. But in my opinion this does not bring stable inshore fishing. Even in the kayak it becomes a challenge. Nothing stable at night either in tight to shore, and it shouldn't be when they are gobbling big fin bait in the sun mid afternoon. Hopefully a little luck comes by this new moon week for the inshore crowd. I know I'll be putting my time in this weekend.

So I'm hoping for more squid to show up asap and the macks and herring to move away and to make the best out of the rest of the season.

Except, this was a slamming squid run in so. RI AND you can walk on pogies (in RI, and from what I saw. central CT this week)...