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I've posted this before and swear this WILL be the last time... I've seen this before... yup I fished through the 70's...80's.. 90's and beyond... i fish from a boat... but where i fish... it's just the same as surf fishing.. I ply the same water...often SHALLOWER than you surf men do....I see what you see...and I don't like it.
the first time around when everyone was sounding the alarm.. i was young.. i was catching fish.. some small ones but some real monsters too... in my young eyes there was nothing wrong and i thought the alarmists were just a bunch of tree hugging wanna-be's...my youthfull, inexperienced eyes could not see or comprehend the whole picture... fishing virtualy around the clock , combined with youthfull excitement gave me a leg up on the competition..funny how aging and wisdome puts things in perspective... IMHO.. I fish the outer range of the great striper migration ( Plum Island Ma.) there are very few nights I cant find a few large.. and if i miss one night.. I'll get them the next ...last year, the murmurs of how bad the fishing was at PI were begginning as soon as mid June....... we saw plenty of large last year... at times... some nights we quit long before they stopped feeding.. we had more medium fish than in recent years... .. truely a positive sign and glimmer of hope for the future, but small fish were, by reasonable account non exsistant...and you need small to make big...there should be far more schoolies than large or mediums and it simply is not the case... anywhere!
these fish are no doubt in trouble... and there is no way around it.. if the future genrerations are going to have fish to catch.. the fisherman fishing today need to act...
There are anglers up and down the coast, like myself, that with local knowledge will always eek out a few fish.. until there are no more... hopefully I/we will never see that day arrive...
My.02
roc
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