[Fish_Eye]

http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.co...s/6363893.html

Recently, a Striped Bass Dietary Study done by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries caught my eye because some of the foraging preferences over a three-year period flew against common logic.

For starters, we all think American eels excite stripers, but in a list of 57 forage species, eels landed in the 45th spot from the top of the most popular striped-bass food -- 12 up from garter snakes!

Just for the record, Atlantic menhaden were first, rock crab second, American sand eel third, unidentified bony fish fourth, sand shrimp fifth, American lobster sixth, green crab seventh, lady crab eighth, Atlantic herring ninth and sea worms 10th. River herring and unidentified herring placed high on the list near 10th place.

--KEN ALLEN

If I can't get fresh menhaden, I'm going to start live lining crabs...NO MORE BOOFISH PROBLEMS CLAMMER...just a tautog bycatch. I'm also flipping rocks for garter snakes and I'm sure a bucket of black racers would produce some real cows.

Mike

Mike