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another thought along the same lines, big pogies attract big bass and blues. smaller bass can't eat them, and therefore move on looking for forage that they can handle. therefore, if you're into big bass on the pogies, you're not getting smalls. if your into smalls, your not getting large. just a though, i don't have any real experience to back it up.
also, last season up on the northshore, we had schoolies for the first half of the season. Then larger fish moved in (and seamingly they were just staging, because there was no real baitfish source around) and we didn't see a fish under 20 lbs for about a month. They just don't hang out together sometimes.
the concentration of the larger fish at the pogies is what concerns me. its too easy to catch them (given that you know what you're doing, i.e. its easy for guys who are good, hard for guys that don't know) in large numbers. Don't some people attribute part of the decline of stripers in the past to them being too easy to catch around the pogies at the time?
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