Fishing has been in decline for a few years IMHO, you have to work much harder and cover a lot more water to catch these days and I've got a boat to get around quickly in. Take this past Sunday which is a perfect example, I covered well over 40 miles running around from Westport to Sekonit, north of Westport, out to Cuttyhunk and never saw a single bird working on a day I'd have seen them working for miles away.
I caught stripers, nothing large, but where is the bait? I say we burn the Omega plants to the ground, sink and scuttle all their trollers and convert them into structure, then raise the length limits or go to a slot to produce some consistant year classes and some fresh genes.
Otherwise we will all have to become bluefisherman like Clammer
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