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Crafty Angler · 07-31-2009, 07:46 AM

Or does anybody really care...

I dunno, it's not like I target them - unless I'm looking for 5# smokers - but the buggers have saved more than a few nights from a total skunk

Can't say I like having them turn my eels into cigar butts, either but they seem to be real scarce

Haven't caught one yet this season - and the only ones I've seen so far were probably 1 or 2 lbs flipping out of the water with BIG swirls all around them at a UDL

Talk about a decline in numbers - couldn't find any for sharkbait on a long cruise last week in the lower bay and out on the reefs and humps - what gives, I wonder

07-31-2009, 07:46 AM	#1
Crafty Angler Geezer Gone Wild iTrader: (2) Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 3,397 Blog Entries: 2	Hey, What Happened To All The Bluefish? Or does anybody really care... I dunno, it's not like I target them - unless I'm looking for 5# smokers - but the buggers have saved more than a few nights from a total skunk Can't say I like having them turn my eels into cigar butts, either but they seem to be real scarce Haven't caught one yet this season - and the only ones I've seen so far were probably 1 or 2 lbs flipping out of the water with BIG swirls all around them at a UDL Talk about a decline in numbers - couldn't find any for sharkbait on a long cruise last week in the lower bay and out on the reefs and humps - what gives, I wonder
	"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.