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Sweetwater · 07-23-2004, 09:09 PM

My experience has been (and I'm sure someone will correct me) is that when the stripers are feeding mostly on sand eels they tend to be a bit thin. I don't think sand eels (sand lances) have the heavy fish oils (like menhaden) that stripers really need to bulk up. It keeps them alive, but they don't get the girth.

I hate to keep harping on this..but the lack of pogies (everywhere from Chesapeake Bay to Maine) are really effecting the size and health of the fish.

However, a few commercial guys are telling me that they're getting fat fish in Vineyard/Nantucket sound.

All I know is stripers need good forage, and it just isn't around....yet.

07-23-2004, 09:09 PM	#8
Sweetwater Ruled only by the tide iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Truro Posts: 801	sand eels My experience has been (and I'm sure someone will correct me) is that when the stripers are feeding mostly on sand eels they tend to be a bit thin. I don't think sand eels (sand lances) have the heavy fish oils (like menhaden) that stripers really need to bulk up. It keeps them alive, but they don't get the girth. I hate to keep harping on this..but the lack of pogies (everywhere from Chesapeake Bay to Maine) are really effecting the size and health of the fish. However, a few commercial guys are telling me that they're getting fat fish in Vineyard/Nantucket sound. All I know is stripers need good forage, and it just isn't around....yet.
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