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nor-easter · 03-17-2004, 11:09 PM

They may/ They may not....Pull the petals off a Daisy and maybe you get an answer.
However, it is my understanding that the 'urge' to spawn is patterned into the Bass like into the Herring and Salmon and all androminous fishes by the Creator. These fish don't just swim along and one day find a nice sunny spot and do their thing. The are drawn by nature to their special place and that is where they do their thing.
Kind of like us when we were young, we all had the mattress in the back seat!
Anyway. All fish do not spawn every year. It takes a young fish a few years to mature, he is then ready, so his urges bring him to his place to do it. Same with the females. They don't go every year. When they are at the right age and the urge hits them then they go to their river of birth and do their thing. They do not get the urge every year.Maybe they have a headache or a back ache or what ever, but I have been told by several competent persons that they do not spawn every year. If it happens to be a year for them not to spawn they may Winter offshore in the deeoer waters and come in from sea in the Spring. Or they may go down the coast but not enter the spawning grounds but will come up the coast with those that did spawn and end up here full of ripe roe with no place to go. I have, and maybe you have as well, caught fish with green roe, orange roe and black roe. Some is ripe others are next years roe and others is last years that is rotting away inside the fish.
Things gotta be right for them to do there thing,and accordingly there are only two major known areas that is the Hudson and the Cheasepeak Bay areas.
They way the scientists prove this is the hatched stripers, the baby ones. The only places the baby ones are found is in the Hudson and Cheasepeak Bay nursery areas. These are tiny baby stripers.
So, if youse guys that are eeling or crabbing start finding any little baby stripers in your traps you better get the fishery bioligests in on it right away. These babies are little, I am told and hang around the birthing places for a couple years maybe more, before they start to get the urge to go down the rivers and into the sea. They come and go and grow and grow and when they get old enough they get urges to do their thing and the great circle goes round and round.

03-17-2004, 11:09 PM	#7
nor-easter Old Timer Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Full Time RVing- Out on the Road Posts: 403	They may/ They may not....Pull the petals off a Daisy and maybe you get an answer. However, it is my understanding that the 'urge' to spawn is patterned into the Bass like into the Herring and Salmon and all androminous fishes by the Creator. These fish don't just swim along and one day find a nice sunny spot and do their thing. The are drawn by nature to their special place and that is where they do their thing. Kind of like us when we were young, we all had the mattress in the back seat! Anyway. All fish do not spawn every year. It takes a young fish a few years to mature, he is then ready, so his urges bring him to his place to do it. Same with the females. They don't go every year. When they are at the right age and the urge hits them then they go to their river of birth and do their thing. They do not get the urge every year.Maybe they have a headache or a back ache or what ever, but I have been told by several competent persons that they do not spawn every year. If it happens to be a year for them not to spawn they may Winter offshore in the deeoer waters and come in from sea in the Spring. Or they may go down the coast but not enter the spawning grounds but will come up the coast with those that did spawn and end up here full of ripe roe with no place to go. I have, and maybe you have as well, caught fish with green roe, orange roe and black roe. Some is ripe others are next years roe and others is last years that is rotting away inside the fish. Things gotta be right for them to do there thing,and accordingly there are only two major known areas that is the Hudson and the Cheasepeak Bay areas. They way the scientists prove this is the hatched stripers, the baby ones. The only places the baby ones are found is in the Hudson and Cheasepeak Bay nursery areas. These are tiny baby stripers. So, if youse guys that are eeling or crabbing start finding any little baby stripers in your traps you better get the fishery bioligests in on it right away. These babies are little, I am told and hang around the birthing places for a couple years maybe more, before they start to get the urge to go down the rivers and into the sea. They come and go and grow and grow and when they get old enough they get urges to do their thing and the great circle goes round and round.
	Capt. Chet