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I agree that there are fish out there too and skill is a telling factor. But when the commercial bass fisherman on the Cape are taking longer and longer to fill their quotas for the year, boat and shore guys alike. This has been getting more apparent for three years now. A bad trend. Even if things are still getting better with smaller fish, it takes a while for that to make it's presence felt with the big gals. The idea is to stay a head of the curve so if something bad like a down cycle in the fish happens, it won't be as impacted by high pressure on the fishing side...
I also don't think you can judge how many fish are out there by your ability to catch them, now or in the past. You know where they will be and when, intuition and knowledge from being out there fishing hard for a long time. Also just because you are doing good in Rhody doesn't mean that its good in other locales as well...
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