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Originally Posted by piemma
If the bait went offshore and the bass with them then what the hell were the 15 millions pogies doing in Narragansett Bay with no bass on them?
What, the bass didn't want to eat pogies?
Ridiculous argument. The bait was everywhere in the Bay with hardly any bass on them. The bass just weren't there because there were less of them.
I was on Ohio Ledge in September and there were huge schools of pogies that went completely unmolested because there were no bass. Period!
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This was a very indicative sign for me last season and the season before that. I sat over many large schools of Pogies as well as many other boats....with only a few ghost bass boated. Sure, there was a one-time push of fish (big-fish) the season before that, but the pogies swam unmolested for the better part of prime-time bass fishing (spring/fall). I can't tell you how many times I said...."I can't believe the bass aren't on these pogies"...and I'm not talking about one particular area.
In regards to many posts on this thread.....
How can members of the same team continue to battle one another and expect to be victorious? Neither side will win, at the end of the day, BOTH will lose. I think the BIG picture is being missed. I think people are looking at one particular battle instead of the entire war. just my opinion...the striped-bass population has SO many enemies.
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Not being hypocritical, but I do keep AND eat fish....and would like to continue to do so. If extreme measures (regulations) need to be put in place, I'm all for them...but fighting one another when I'd like to believe that we all want the same end result, is pointless....unless of course, we really don't want the same end-result.
Like GotStripers said, I too have been a reborn ground-fisherman. I forgot how much fun targeting the many other species available to us here in the NE can be.