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Old 10-07-2009, 05:19 PM   #25
Mike P
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Originally Posted by Clogston29 View Post
just a guess on my part that at some point during the migration the bait will get blown in shore or the fish will move inshore lured by other bait when they leave the sandeels to head south. BI and Montauk kind of stick out into the migration routes so I threw those locations out there. obiously they may not.

wasn't the great fishing on BI years ago a result of big offshore sand eels being blown in?

bassdozer has some interesting theories on the offshore schools making land fall every few years. not saying i believe them all, but they're interesting to think about anyway.

He wrote this over 10 years ago, well before all of the reports of huge schools in the EEZ started coming in regularly:

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