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Originally Posted by ivanputski
" The standard of what constitutes a trophy striped bass is about to change significantly."
sadly, I agree big time. last season I was truly appreciating fish that wouldnt even raise my heart rate 5 years ago.
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I think it wasn't until sept that I finally broke 20# from shore this past year and I was depressed. Way too many long hard nites of a lot of water covered by me and frank town with ideal conditions and absolutely nothing. And I mean not even flip flops or tiny blues. That is turf from canal to Newport. Felt like we were fishing in February. Ghost town. Seems fish have changed their patterns to more of the south shore and points north. Why? No idea. There was plenty of bait around. Just no fish. I think it is a combination of too many sea bass eating everything, seals, and sharks. Even canal was very sporadic other than 3 locations of about 100 feet of shore line that were a shat show. Witnessed what a joke law enforcement was in those 3 areas on several occasions as I watched English as a second language folks blatantly smuggling loads of fish out of those areas on non commercial nites on several occasions. It is a bad situation we are in both as recreational and commercial fisherman.
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