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Water quality, lack of substantial bait not just sand eels, seals and access closures for the mobile surfcaster. Big biat is a huge problem but while other areas, notably have had and do have a resurgence of big adult Menhaden could it not be the same issue keeping them from our sandy shores as what is keeping the bass away? Namely, seals. What would a herd of seals do to an acre of pogies about to enter Pleasant Bay? And does the deteriorating water quality in the bay have anything to do with keeping them out and Stage Harbor as well?
By mid July the gelatinous junk floating on the waters of PB and the water clarity overwhelm your senses. Lack of oxygen maybe? And that June rain and the effect it had on our embayments around the Cape?
Barnstable had more bait than I have seen in years this past spring and early summer but KarlF and I saw what might be the next battlefront on the seal issue. A large seal on the east bar in June in amongst the sand eels schools. Not a good sign.
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