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Originally Posted by BigFish
Bill thats what a few guys are saying....not just lack of fish but lack of small fish!  |
Larry, ....and that's how it started in the first massive crash in the early 80s. We were catching nothing but COWS. A 40 didn't even get noticed. Schoolie? What the hell is a schoolie? Then it was fewer big fish and NO small fish (like this year). And then there was nothing. If I remmber correctly 92 was the year of 1 36" fish.
When we had the moriotium and I was in the surf, one morning I caught 6 fish about 12 to 15". There was a bait store in narragansett call Top of the Dock. I went in there after fishing Deep Hole and catching these fish and told the owner. The store had it's regulars of which I was not one. They were all hanging around and they looked at me and called me a liar and that I should be ashamed for fabricating such nonsense.
That's how rare Bass got. Makai remembers, Back Beach remembers. The young guys on the Board might think I am crazy but there were NO bass. A 30 got written up in the newspaper. I won 2nd place inThundermist Striper Club in 92 with a 32# and most of these guys were the high hooks of legends.
During the moritorium (thanks to Sen John Chaffee, I think) it was keep nothing for 3 years, to keep 1, 36", to keep 1, 34". To this stupidness of 2, 28".