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Listen to what is being said. IT'S THE BAIT!!!
For the first time in 20 years plus we had large bunker in upper Narragansett Bay late in the season. If you snagged a few and knew where to go you could catch 25 to 30 pound fish till your arms fell off.
Now the bunker have migrated out of the Bay and down the Coast and everyone is saying that the Bass are in trouble.
There are tons of Bass. I caught more 30 pound fish this year than ever in my life because I found the big bunker. If we get the Ark Bait boats out of the bay there will be more and more large Bass. You can't support a large bio-mass on peanut bunker. A 40# fish needs a lot of food to sustain itself and Bunker have the highest protein and fat content of any forage available in the NE. It's just common sense.
The Bass will go to where the food is. BI is close to dead this Fall...at least from shore... because there is no large bait present. We use to have the Blueback Herring in the Fall all around the Island. Now the Russian trawlers have suck all of them up. Thus no bait...no bass.
Look at the Outer beaches. Worse season in years. WHY??? The Seals have scooped up all the bait. Common thread here. BAIT BAIT BAIT!!!! Solve the bait problem and the Striper population will take care of itself. The commercial fishing community has virtually no affect on the Bass population.
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