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Originally Posted by tynan19
Sea Lice is picked up in the open ocean. So if the fish have them they are fresh run stripers not holdovers.
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I am sorry Tynan but I would disagree with your description. Let me give you a few examples of my own experience with reports of sea lice and the age old "MYTH" that the presence of sea lice is a "firm" indicator of just arriving striped bass.
1...ABI Tagging Program (now out of business) noted at least three examples of SB caught with lice, released with lice and recaught with lice in the summer months. On one occasion the bass was caught and re caught two weeks apart in the same location, Point Allerton off Hull. Sea Lice on the fish at all times.
2...A few years ago during TRI State, a group of us were fishing in a river in Maine about a mile inside the mouth. When we came out of the river...all of us had Waders covered with sea lice.
3...I have not met a working marine biologist that has told me that sea lice are only found in deep cold water.
Now let me add that I beleive Sea Lice can be one indicator if used with others to determine that a fish is "fresh" and not a holdover. My point is that Sea Lice alone incicate nothing more than the presence of Sea Lice.