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a lot of hard fishing, common sense people have replied here..
My area, Plum Island (Mass) has always held big fish, even when there are none /few anywhere else. this past year, was very good early for large , the rain drove the fish out of the river and offshore, where all summer, a massive school sat out along the Isle of shoals NH.. every charter boat in the area pounded these fish, all summer, in late August, the moved inshore onto Coffin beach, where once again charter boats, and commercial "fisherman" pounded the school relentlessly, it was "stupid" fishing at it's best, any commercial boat that did not limit out on 25 -40lb fish just didn't try very hard, it lasted until the season closed and the offshore hurricane push the remains of that school south, I'm sure Block Island finished them off- 20 years ago, there would have been 4 or 5 boats in on it, now, due do to social media and a "bounty" on these fish, that massive school of breeders took a big hit.. the last night I fished them, I released ( boatside, none were removed from the water) about 30 fish( nothing under 25lbs, most were considerably larger) and left them biting all on single hook needlefish.. I hope it wasn't the last buffalo hunt. on a sadder note, I saw =very, very few fish under 30" this year- that is scary.
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