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It is happening. We are starting to see the same trend that we saw in the late 70s when there were a fair number of jumbos being caught but no little fish around
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I was around throughout the 70's (in fact, fishing commercially)..NO WAY is now anything like that...there is WAY more fish around now...back then, you could fish a whole tide at Valiant, Sugar Reef (Watch Hill), Isabella Beach, Brenton Reef, or most other places in Southern NE and, if you were lucky, you got 4 or 5 fish. Nowadays, anybody with a jig has been getting 20-30 fish at Nauset....look at what is happening at the Block.....in fact, back in the late 70's, early 80's, Block Island and maybe Race Point were the only places with good number of fish.
The reason why it died in the late 70's is because there were NO REGULATIONS!!! (oh I forgot, 16" size limit). Now you have regulations in place that will NEVER let that happen again....please stop with the doom and gloom....