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In Western Long Island Sound, where I grew up fishing ... our experience was much the same as what Ron described ... we still caught stripers during the moratorium ... as most of the fishing was live lining pogies - which were abundant - and when the blues were pushing them into the harbors, the bass were always below.
We also did a lot of plugging that yielded both blues and bass. The one thing that still good in the 80s were the fact that we still managed several tide runner weakfish, not nearly as abundant as during the 70s, but we always got several around 12-14 pounds on live pogies every year ... actually, this one fishing buddy of mine always seemed to catch them while I got the yellow-eyed demons. But it was nice to see those fish once every while.
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