......a moderate Northeast storm in September......live lined adult pogies....totes of gutted 16-19 pound squets off to Steve at RI Fish Providence....spring fishing with rubber Touts 6-10 pounders all of outgoing.......BI North Rip....eel head jigs with English rubba sand eels..double headers every drop............fresh squets fillets baked with vine ripened tomatoes with a "Gansett".......awe days of old......low impact rod n'reel.....................love the fang marks on live/cut bait....talked to biologists....mid Atlantic netting of adults combined with voracious appetites of well established populations of striped bass and bluefish(eating young squets) are part of the problem--with squet abundance cycles-hi/lows spanning decades...............
