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All of this musty stuff I like to shuffle through on 19th and early 20th century club records and catch rates always seems to repeat the same tune. Periods of phenomenal fishing for bass always seem to be followed by a precipitous stock crash. Cause and effect may be hard to establish, but increased catch rates on both sides of the fence are certainly part of it. Sure, other factors are involved too but it's way too obvious to be discounted.
Perhaps when the info is in we'll meet the enemy only to find it is us -that is to say, not the crowd gathered here but the recs who are tonging fish just for the slap on the back from the boys and not their value as damn good table fare put to good use.
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Do you think recreational fishing was much of a factor prior to the Second World War?
Are the fluctuations in Striped Bass and Bluefish populations part of a normal cycle where populations increase until they eat themselves out of a supply of food or become so dense, that the populations crash from lack of food or disease. I understand that this does happen with some species.
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