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Had fun last night, although I was hoping to report that the "bluefish are in"... I'm ready to focus locally, but need to get a blitz or two before abandoning the cape. Walking and casting the edge of the flat was cool and we got some explosive hits. I wish we had another hour of light, 'cause those bass were much nicer.
Yah, those fish in Wareham were tiny. A couple of Slip's fish were like 7-8". Of course, I was going for large so I didn't get any of the real tiny ones... I was more interested in the 12-14" monsters... yah, whatever.
Anyway, I had a question about that on the drive home... we had a thread last year about local spawners and suspected areas.
My question is... are bass like salmon? What I mean is do they return to the same river in which they were born? or would they possibly join up with a school of migratory fish.
I just wondered with the continued pressures to the fish and habitat in the Hudson and Chesapeake, if nature is finding a way to protect itself by spreading out the spawning areas. I recently read an article about a resident, spawning population of bass up in one of the east coast Canadian rivers.
Or have these populations always been there?
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